Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 31 - Essential qualities of leadership: The filling of the Spirit; Rom 5:12- 6:13.

Title: Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 31 - Essential qualities of leadership: The filling of the Spirit; ROM 5:12- 6:13.

 

Announcements / opening prayer:  

 

 

ROM 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin [sin nature] entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned — 

 

ROM 5:13 for until the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed [ellogao = charged to their account] when there is no law.

 

ROM 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses [still under the penalty of Adam's sin], even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

 

ROM 5:15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

 

ROM 5:16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.

 

ROM 5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

 

ROM 5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

 

Justification is a legal standing before God as fully acquitted. However, alone this may not change the character of a person, but justification with spiritual life changes position and character.

 

All believers would have their character changed if it was justification alone that does it. The work of Christ resulted in a gift of the life that is Christ given to all believers. That life is described as justified, meaning it is a holy life, a blameless life, a life that is in full agreement with the righteousness of God.

 

Scriptures pertaining to the justified life gifted by Christ:

 

COL 3:4

Christ, who is our life

 

It's source is Christ, not the flesh:

 

JOH 5:21

"For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

 

2TI 1:10

our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel

 

1JO 5:11-12

And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

 

The life fulfills:

 

JOH 6:35

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

 

It is a life of faith:

 

GAL 2:20

"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.

 

JOH 20:31

these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

 

It was lived by Christ during the first Advent.

 

ACT 2:28

'Thou hast made known to me the ways of life;

Thou wilt make me full of gladness with Thy presence.'

 

It is to be lived in the walk of everyday life:

 

ROM 6:4-5

Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

 

It inevitably includes undeserved suffering:

 

2CO 4:11

For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

 

It is not in the Mosaic Law:

 

GAL 3:21

For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

 

It can only be lived by the Spirit:

 

GAL 6:8

For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.

 

The unbeliever can't live it, so it is not from the flesh:

 

EPH 4:17-18

walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart

 

TIT 3:3-5

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us