By His grace, be doers of His word

It's the grace of god that sustain you through, not your faith

If your foundation is on Christ, the spirit will convict you and you will revere Lord (be a wise man who put it into practise)


“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” (Matthew 7:24-27 NIV)

Living out the word is not about self will but a test of your foundation --> a more consistent character 

  1. Living out the word
    • Understanding of god's sovereign grace in Christ 
      • Choice vs grace - to follow God, to work.
      • Ask: you resist temptation or it's by grace you come to need god, and pray. Distinguish between regeneration (unchanging) and own determination (changing) 
      • Be grace conscious 
    • No boasting in human intelligence - James 4:13-15
      • You don't even know tmr (don't exalt your own human talent, will)
      • Boasting about your ability = supremacy of man (such is a foolish man)
    • Seek, test and approve what is His will 
      • Do we often find assurance in this? It is ok to fail, seek again, test again and approve His will again
  2. Stand the test
    • Assurance in the process
      1. Victory is promised, and is already yours (you are the son, people of god, priest). Hold onto this even in the midst of failure and struggle
      2. Ask: what always make us feel doom is not the covenant but the trying process. We cannot feel victorious but miserable, loser.
      3. What you share with others is what you receive through the process (moulding and shaping of God, don't just grasp the feelings) 
      4. Pray: learn the way of the spirit - not about not having defeat, but see the Christ who is gaining victory even in my weakness 
    • Develop genuine obedience (not only not doing the evil, hate evil: not just doing good, loves good --> birth of a heart here)
      • Pray till : sensibility and will in sync with god
    • Grow in good works 
      • Don't remain comfortable consistently 
      • You will never understand the shedding of blood (flesh is unwilling. But spirit is willing )--> but you obey! and you experience a breakthrough  in spirituality 
  3. Keep working on your foundation (anchor)
    • Because the testing of faith will come - to confirm if your foundation is correct, and remove the wrong one 
    • Foundation (learn it again and again) - Christ
      1. Sonship 
      2. Promise (blessing to all people)
      3. Will of god - love God and man
      4. Glory of suffering (torn between flesh and spirit)
    • Holy Spirit will work through this foundation to remind you
      • Therefore you need to build the right foundation - that's how HS works