Natural, Supernatural, Unnatural
The most successful pop teachings with Christians: - Appeal to felt needs, non actual needs.
- Tell us we're victims, non sinners.
- Tell us we're wonderful simply the means nosotros are.
- Use exclusively Bible verses that brand us experience skilful most ourselves.
- Exclude verses that utter most holiness, dying to self, or obeying God's commands.
We love hearing skilful things most ourselves which brand us mean value God's love is limp in addition to one-dimensional. But truthful love is full-bodied in addition to includes teaching, rebuking, correcting in addition to grooming (2 Timothy 3:16-17). God is holy in addition to He expects holiness from His honey children (2 John 1:6). - Our "old man" = selfishness
- Our "new man" = holiness
- Our exclusively promise = doing all things inward Christ's line (Philippians 4:13).
The natural human being needs the Supernatural Man to create what's unnatural for his fallen human nature because "He has saved us [WOW!!!] in addition to called us to a holy life" (2 Timothy 1:9).