Dying To Self —Unknown Author

Dying To Self

—Unknown Author

When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don't sting and hurt with the insult or the oversight, but your heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ, that is dying to self.

When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving silence, that is dying to self.

When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, and climate, any society, any raiment, any interruption by the will of God, that is dying to self.

When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works, or itch after commendations, when you can truly love to be unknown, that is dying to self.

When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances, that is dying to self.

When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than your self and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart, that is dying to self.

“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” —Matthew 16:24-25

FULL SALVATION (Sermon Outline)

FULL SALVATION

TEXT: I THESSALONIANS 5:15-24

THEME: The believer is fully saved if he is fully sanctified.

INTRODUCTION:

Evangelical salvation is salvation from sin. There are two classes of sin: the committed and the habitual sin and the sin as a principle in the heart of a man. The word sin which is “hamartia” in Greek denotes the act of disobedience and at the same time a condition or the state of the heart. Salvation is the deliverance from all sin, the habitual and the root of sin. If a believer is only justified and not fully sanctified he is considered as not fully saved yet. He needs the second work of grace of entire sanctification done in the heart through the agency of the Holy Spirit by purifying it from the carnal sin: when these works are accomplished in the life of a believer he is fully saved from sin. How can a believer or a child of God be fully sanctified?

I. FIRSTLY, ONE HAS TO BE SURE HE OR SHE IS REALLY JUSTIFIED AND EXPERIENCES THE REGENERATION (BORN AGAIN) OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

A. Repentance is fully done. (Isaiah 55:7)

B. Regeneration is experience in the heart. (Titus 3:4, 5)

C. By living Godly and righteously. (Titus 2:11, 12)

II. SECONDLY, ONE HAS TO WALK IN THE LIGHT OF THE WORD OF GOD. (I John 1:7)

A. There is a ready mind to obey what is required of a child of God upon Illumination of the WORD OF GOD.

B. There is an attitude of real love and fellowship with the children of God.

III. THIRDLY, EXERCISE THE NATURAL DUTIES OF THE CHILD OF GOD. (I Thess. 5:15-22)

A. Render not evil for evil, Rejoice evermore, Pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks.

B. Quench not the spirit: despise not prophesying; prove all things, hold fast that which is good, abstain from all appearance of evil.

(NOTE: The approach to entire sanctification is the exercise of all Christian duties known.)

IV. FOURTHLY, CONSECRATE ENTIRE ONE’S PERSON AND ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD. (Rom. 12:1)

A. Consecration of self is the natural requirement of God from His child.

B. Consecrate to God what He has given you.

V. FIFTHLY, HAVE FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST (ATONEMENT) AS THE GROUND OF FULL SANCTIFICATION. (I John 1:7)

A. After fully consecrating one’s self, believe that the work is done in the heart.

B. The altar sanctifies the gift. (Ex.29:37; Matt.23:19)

CONCLUSION:

Entire sanctification gives us holiness in the heart. In regeneration the holy life begins. In full sanctification holiness is completed in the life or soul of the child of God. There is power in living for God in full sanctification. Entire sanctification is full-salvation from sin.

15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHURCH OF GOD AT DUBAI -

Sa mga kapatid naming sa Panginoon diyan sa Pilipinas,

Pagbati mula sa pangalan ng ating Panginoon at Tagapagligtas na si Jesus.

Nais kong ibalita sa inyo na idinaos naming ang ika-15 anibersaryo ng Iglesia ng Dios dito sa Dubai noon April 24, 2009 na ginanap sa Consulate General of the Philippines. Nagpapasalamat kami sa Panginoon sa naging tagumpay ng aming anibersaryo. Maraming mga mga pagpapala at mga biyayang ipinagkaloob ng Dios na aming natanggap. Salamat na aming nadama ang pagkilos ng Espiritu Santo sa mahalagang araw na yaon. Salamat na nananatiling tagumpay ang kaniyang Iglesia dito. Ang amin tema ay “Christ our Example” (I pet. 2:21). Mahigit 50 ang dumalo sa kaniyang gawain at 12 dito ang lumapit sa Panginoon. Ang mga kaluluwang ito ay mga Overseas Filipino Workers na hindi naging mabuti ang kalagayan sa kanilang mga amo. Tuwing araw ng Huwebes ay mayroon kaming Bible Study doon at ilan sa kanila ay aming nkakapiling. Sila’y ating isama sa ating mga panalangin na nawa’y maayos na ang kanilang mga kalagayan dito.

Patuloy po tayong magdalanginan upang manatili ang pag-ibig sa mga kapatid at pagkakaisa ng kaniyang Iglesia at nawa’y lumago pa ang kaniyang Gawain hindi lamang dito kundi lalo na jan sa ating bansa. Muli ay nagpapasalamat kami sa inyong mga panalangin at daing patungkol sa mga banal dito sa Dubai.

Kalakip ng email na ito ang ilan sa mga larawan na kuha sa anibersaryo.

Ipinaaabot ng mga kapati ang mainit na pagbati at pangungumusta sa inyong lahat.

Purihin ang Panginoon.

Ang inyong kapatid at kamanggagawa kay Kristo

Bro. Arthur Logan

(See pictures at www.cogphoto.blogspot.com)

FLEE FROM SIN

Genesis 39:1-21

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority.

So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had in the house and in the field. Thus he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. "There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" So it was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with her. But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside, that she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside.

And so it was, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside, that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, "See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. "And it happened, when he heard that I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me, and fled and went outside." So she kept his garment with her until his master came home. Then she spoke to him with words like these, saying, "The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came in to me to mock me; "so it happened, as I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me and fled outside." So it was, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, "Your servant did to me after this manner," that his anger was aroused. Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison. But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

" But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside." — Genesis 39:12

In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight. The ancient naturalists wrote much of basilisks a legendary reptile with fatal breath and glance, whose eyes fascinated their victims and rendered them easy victims; so the mere gaze of wickedness puts us in solemn danger. He who would be safe from acts of evil must haste away from occasions of it. A covenant must be made with our eyes not even to look upon the cause of temptation, for such sins only need a spark to begin with and a blaze follows in an instant. Who would wantonly enter the leper's prison and sleep amid its horrible corruption? He only who desires to be leprous himself would thus court contagion. If the mariner knew how to avoid a storm, he would do anything rather than run the risk of weathering it. Cautious pilots have no desire to try how near the quicksand they can sail, or how often they may touch a rock without springing a leak; their aim is to keep as nearly as possible in the midst of a safe channel. This day I may be exposed to great peril, let me have the serpent's wisdom to keep out of it and avoid it. The wings of a dove may be of more use to me today than the jaws of a lion. It is true I may be an apparent loser by declining evil company, but I had better leave my cloak than lose my character; it is not needful that I should be rich, but it is imperative upon me to be pure. No ties of friendship, no chains of beauty, no flashings of talent, no shafts of ridicule must turn me from the wise resolve to flee from sin. The devil I am to resist and he will flee from me, but the lusts of the flesh, I must flee, or they will surely overcome me. O God of holiness preserve thy Josephs, that Madam Bubble bewitch them not with her vile suggestions. May the horrible trinity of the world, the flesh, and the devil, never overcome us!

Morning and Evening Readings—Charles Spurgeon