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Abide in the Gospel, the Holy Spirit, Jesus:

• Giving and Receiving ______:
• Dependence on ________:
• Connectedness to ________:
• This will lead to Fruitfulness.

I. Children of God in Purity

Our “full potential” is not something completed through hard work, learning from failure, or seminars but will be reality when we see Jesus face to face.

It may be dramatic change because little by little over time we are being renewed… being renewed little by little each day with one day looking back and seeing all that God has changed in and through us.

II. Purity from Sin

That is to say, my sin is truly sinful and worth dealing with before God because it is truly an expression of my hearts desires that are not yet fully surrendered to God and still rooted in the faithless rebellion my whole heart once lived in.

Our great King loves us too much to allow any part of us to remain or abide in a false kingdom, but only that we would be wholly converted as citizens of His country.

“They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. You are doing the works your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God." Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say?

It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God."”
John 8:39-47

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III. Purity in Love

This is the ugliness of sin and rebellion that resides in us all.

“"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.”
John 15:12-15

“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”
Romans 5:6-11

“It is easier to be enthusiastic about Humanity with a capital “H” than it is to love individual men and women, especially those who are uninteresting, exasperating, depraved, or otherwise unattractive. Loving everybody in general may be an excuse for loving nobody in particular.”

IV. Purity in Heart/Conscience

The accusing and anxious heart has one cure, a God who knows all and is greater than our hearts.

Do you know that you belong to the truth?

Do you have a heart that accuses you?

Instead of defending it yourself, how can you bring the accusation before God and His word?

Do you see God answering your prayers?

If I were living by faith and freedom in Christ
I would __________.