I Can Do This | Bishop Kyle Searcy | 5.5.24

I CAN DO THIS!

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Intro: Simplicity

I. WE ARE CALLED TO BE LIKE CHRIST

2 Cor 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away;

behold, all things have become new.

1 John 2:6

6  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

Eph 5:1-2

Therefore, be imitators of God as dear children. 2  And walk in love, as Christ also has

loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-

smelling aroma.

II. AN INSTRUMENT

1. Tri-partate Being

1 Thess 5:23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole

spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus

Christ

Soul

 Mind: intellect, thoughts, reasoning, and cognitive functions.

 Will: volition, the ability to make choices and decisions.

 Emotion: feelings, passions, and desires.

Spirit

 Intuition: ability to sense and discern spiritual truths or realities without the

need for conscious reasoning. (knowing)

 Communion: Ability to commune with God

 Conscience: inner moral compass that convicts individuals of right and

wrong according to God's standards

2. Paul and Conscience

Rom 9:1

I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in

the Holy Spirit,

Acts 23:1

Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived

in all good conscience before God until this day”

Acts 24:16 KJV

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence

toward God, and toward men

a. Is where God expresses His holiness.

b. It testifies concerning inclination and action.

c. Before Saved it exist but in a coma

d. After saved it is awakened by the Holy Spirit

e. Never argues or reasons just informs of what God’s will is and whether we

are obeying it.

3. Stewarding Conscience

a. Never violate it.

Rom 14:23

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from

faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin

b. When you do there is usually trouble

1 Tim 1:18-19

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies

previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good

warfare, holding faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected,

concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck

c. Sometimes Conscience can be off and need readjusting

1 Tim 4:2

speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron

1 Cor 8:4-8

Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an

idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5  For even

if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many

gods and many lords), 6  yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are

all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all

things, and through whom we live. 7  However, there is not in everyone that

knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a

thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8  But

food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better,

nor if we do not eat are we the worse

III. A RULE

Matthew 7:12

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law

and the Prophets

 Interpersonal Relationships

I CAN DO THIS!