00:00empowered by the spirit why because he's a christian what does that mean he has received
00:06salvation and with salvation the empowerment to live like christ and function like christ
00:12live like christ and function like christ now others choose living like christ and they ignore
00:20functioning like christ others choose functioning like christ and they ignore living like christ
00:26you're not giving liberty to choose it goes together you live like christ and then you
00:33function like christ is someone learning a christian a christian a christian
00:51is one who is a believer in and a follower of jesus christ one who has consciously received
00:57salvation by believing the gospel and placing his faith in jesus one who has received the
01:04forgiveness of sin received the righteousness of god and is now being empowered by the life of god
01:10through his spirit to live like christ manifesting the nature of the holy spirit the fruit of the
01:19spirit we call it at work through his recreated human spirit and then accessing the resources
01:25to function like christ manifesting his wisdom mighty works manifesting his power the bible says in
01:33ephesians chapter 2 and verse 10 we are his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works which god had
01:43before ordained that we should work in them we are his workmanship now believers in christ please listen
01:54believers in christ generally have a two-fold classification from a theological standpoint when you talk about
02:01believers in christ they generally classify believers uh two-fold number one is classification based on
02:10identity this is an attempt to describe the extent of your oneness with christ there is classification
02:16based on identity number two there's classification based on function again there's classification based
02:23on identity and there's classification based on function so based on identity you find words like
02:31i am the vine and ye are the branches so it helps to show the extent of your oneness you
02:37hear words like
02:38heirs of god and joined heirs with christ you see that now he calls you the righteousness of god in
02:44christ
02:45god in christ these are nature descriptions these are nature descriptions they are not functions they are
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