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First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Recently Added Resources First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Recently Added Resources https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library Stories of Faithfulness Episode #11 Josh Rieger Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/podcast-episodes/stories-of-faithfulness-episode-11 https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/15/4825 Stories of Faithfulness Episode #11 Stories of Faithfulness Episode #11 Stories of Faithfulness Episode #11 Audio of Stories of Faithfulness Episode #11 By the Spirit Put it to Death David Strain And as we turn our attention this morning to verses 12 and 13, I want you to see that Paul is beginning now to draw some preliminary conclusions. He is applying at this point all that he’s been saying so far. Notice how verse 12 begins, “So then, brothers.” “So in view of everything I’ve been saying, given all of these glorious truths, brothers, here are the implications.” And he structures his encouragement and exhortations to us around two controlling metaphors. Do you see them in verses 12 and 13? First of all he says, “If everything I’ve been telling you is true, we need to understand that Christians are debtors.” That’s the first metaphor - Christians are debtors, verse 12, “So then, brothers, we are debtors.” Then secondly, the next metaphor he says, “If everything I’ve been saying is true, we need to understand Christians must not only be debtors, they must also be executioners.” Verse 13, “If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” So do you see those two metaphors? We’re going to simply use those to structure our message this morning. Christians are debtors and Christians must be executioners. ]] Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/sermons/by-the-spirit-put-it-to-death https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/2/4817 By the Spirit Put it to Death By the Spirit Put it to Death And as we turn our attention this morning to verses 12 and 13, I want you to see that Paul is beginning now to draw some preliminary conclusions. He is applying at this point all that he’s been saying so far. Notice how verse 12 begins, “So then, brothers.” “So in view of everything I’ve been saying, given all of these glorious truths, brothers, here are the implications.” And he structures his encouragement and exhortations to us around two controlling metaphors. Do you see them in verses 12 and 13? First of all he says, “If everything I’ve been telling you is true, we need to understand that Christians are debtors.” That’s the first metaphor - Christians are debtors, verse 12, “So then, brothers, we are debtors.” Then secondly, the next metaphor he says, “If everything I’ve been saying is true, we need to understand Christians must not only be debtors, they must also be executioners.” Verse 13, “If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” So do you see those two metaphors? We’re going to simply use those to structure our message this morning. Christians are debtors and Christians must be executioners. ]] By the Spirit Put it to Death Audio of By the Spirit Put it to Death Grace for Gideon Cory Brock Well we’re carrying on in the book of Judges tonight as we’ve been marching through it all of these Sunday nights lately and we’ve come up to, as Wiley mentioned, chapter 6, which is the story of the call of Gideon. And it’s a little bit of a longer reading tonight, so I just want to dive right into the text. So I’m going to pray and then we’ll read verses 1 to 27 in Judges chapter 6.  ]] Sun,…