IMPORTANT CONCEPTS

"RESTORATION" - PROCESS VS. WAY OF LIFE "And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:11) "For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another." (Titus 3:3)

ACCOUNTABILITY VS. VICTIMHOOD "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." (2 Corinthians 5:10) "So then each of us shall give account of himself to God." (Romans 14:12)

CHOICE VS. DISEASE "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, " (Deuteronomy 30:19)

EMPOWERED VS. POWERLESS " Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us," (Ephesians 3:20)

ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE "Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;" (2 Peter 1:10)

MASTERY VS. ENSLAVEMENT "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." (Genesis 4:7) "All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything." (1 Corinthians 6:12)

FROM GOD NOT MAN "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:12-14) "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." (Colossians 2:8)

THE PROCESS

GALATIANS 6:1 "Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, lest you too be tempted."

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