Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 48 - Essential qualities of leadership: The filling of the Spirit; Rom 5:12- 6:13.

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The doctrine of leadership part 48 - Essential qualities of leadership: The filling of the Spirit; ROM 5:12- 6:13.

 

Announcementsopening prayer:  

 

 

ROM 6:14

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

 

That is a great difference from Sinai. At Sinai, they were afraid of His voice. In the New Jerusalem, we are justified by the cross of Christ.  

 

HEB 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

 

HEB 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

 

HEB 12:24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

 

We have come to the New Jerusalem, Mt. Zion, where God the Judge sits and we, through the sprinkled blood of Jesus, are justified and need not fear but rejoice.

 

When Christ died, the veil hiding the Holy of Holies was torn from top to bottom and so now the believer is not outside the veil but to the contrary he lives in the Holy of Holies, but not the one made with human hands, but the one now seated at the right hand of God.

 

HEB 10:19 Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

 

HEB 10:20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,

 

HEB 10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

 

The difference is the difference between a slave of the house and a son. The unbeliever cannot see God as anything other than a law-giver, but the believer sees God as a salvation giver, grace giver, Son giver, life giver, an everything that is good … giver. Grace is the glorious liberty and freedom of the children of God.

 

We are called sons but we are also called stewards. The steward is a managing slave of the house, but this speaks to our service and not to our position as sons. It was preposterous to the Roman culture for a son to also be a slave, but God's ways are not man's. If you were the steward of a wealthy man's kitchen you were likely under orders and rules by the owner on how to run it exactly. Now consider a son of the owner in that same position, in fact, an adult son. He has the freedom to run it as he pleases, but if he loves his father, he will do so according to the father's will and the father will entrust him with all its management. 

 

Freedom from law is not lawlessness, but holiness under grace. Our law is Christ, all that comes with Christ, which is grace.

 

Because Satan hates the doctrine of grace, he has built up a hundred false theologies, all marked by the theory that man can do a little for himself, rather than acknowledging that God has done everything for him. Satan wants to keep the eyes of the individual fastened upon himself and his own efforts, so as to keep him from looking to the Lord Jesus Christ alone.

 

1CO 9:21

under the law of Christ

 

JOH 16:7 "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

 

JOH 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears [the truth that the believer takes into his heart], He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

 

JOH 16:14 "He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you.

 

JOH 16:15 "All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said, that He takes of Mine, and will disclose it to you.

 

ROM 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit [newness of life] and not in oldness of the letter.

 

ROM 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

 

ROM 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

 

ROM 8:3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

 

ROM 8:4 in order that the requirement of the Law [walk in righteousness or holiness], might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

 

Walking with someone freely is not being dragged by that someone. To walk with the Spirit you must desire His way and walk with Him. This is all done by faith and not works. By faith we chose His way and walk with Him and He empowers us in the works or the fruits of that journey.

 

Requirement of the Law:

LEV 11:44

'For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy.

 

1PE 1:14-17

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."

 

In the church age this is accomplished by the Holy Spirit in whom the believer chooses to walk in. The believer trusts the Spirit to accomplish the walk of holiness as he presents himself to God as one alive from the dead and the members of his body as instruments of righteousness. This is the law of the Spirit of life for the ones who are in Christ Jesus.

 

Yet, unfortunately, many believers are not walking on the resurrection side of the cross and do not comprehend the truth of the crucifixion side either. The law of Christ is a "new creation rule."

 

GAL 6:14 But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

 

GAL 6:15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

 

GAL 6:16 And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.