Lesson 2: Salvation

Just met with two High School guys going through a 16 week discipleship study that my youth pastor took me through. Here is a clip of what we talked about this morning:

II. Being in GOD’S family separates you from the DEVIL’S family.
A. Your body is now the TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost. God’s Holy Spirit lives inside you. 1Corinthians 6:19
B. II Corinthians 6:14-18 commands the believer to maintain a DIFFERENCE between himself and the unsaved.
C. The NEW LIFE is perfectly summarized for you in II Corinthians 5:17-18, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ…”
1. At the moment of your salvation, your old nature died and was buried with Christ. What arose out of the grave was something completely different from what went into the grave. You became a new creature with a new nature! Look at Colossians 2:12, 3:3
2. Upon your salvation, however, you did not receive a new body or a new mind. That will be our future glory. Look at Colossians 3:4
3. Because our bodies (FLESH) and our minds remember what we used to do, and how we used to think, they constantly seek to pull us toward sin.
4. That is why Paul tells us that we must “mortify” or KILL the deeds of our body (Col. 3:5) and “put off” the sins of the mind. (Col. 3:8-9)