“NOW WHAT…WHAT NOW?” 

Pt. 2 – Inside/Outside

“For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified” (NRSV)

“It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process” (MSG)

  • PROGRESS is a PROCESS – the only way to stop the progress is if you __________ the process to __________

“And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness” Colossians 2:6-7 (NLT)

  • Just because something ________ different on the OUTSIDE, doesn’t mean it _____ different on the INSIDE

“‘It’s easy to see a smudge on your neighbor’s face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, “Let me wash your face for you,” when your own face is distorted by contempt? It’s this I-know-better-than-you mentality again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your own part. Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor’” Luke 6:41-42 (MSG)

“ARE YOU DOING WHAT YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE DOING FOR GOD, OR ARE YOU DOING WHAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO?” Jeannie Perkins

  • Our __________ actions will always reflect our ___________ nature

“‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness’” Matthew 23:25-28 (NASB)

“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away” Isaiah 64:6-9 (NIV)

“… as it is written: “There is no one who is righteous, not even one; there is no one who has understanding…” Romans 3:9-11a (NRSV)

  • We can only be __________ before God by faith in Christ, and we can only _______ God with our lives when we live according to the Spirit

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.” Ezekiel 36:26-27 (NIV)