Grace Community Bible Church Sermons

Charles Sebold: Godliness and the Glory of Christ

1. Godliness defined
2. Godliness shown in sound doctrine
1. Doctrine which leads to love, good conscience, sincere faith
2. Law is made for the ungodly
1. To make the gospel more glorious by convicting sinners
2. To demonstrate the overabundance of grace to sinners
3. Rejection of faith and good conscience = shipwreck, Satan
3. Godliness upheld in the Church
4. What is our godliness?
1. “How one ought to conduct himself in the household of God”
2. Truth universally recognized by the church
3. Mystery – a secret revealed in Christ, the earthly and the heavenly fully represented and intertwined
   
4. How Christ’s godliness is shown in us
1. Rom. 5:20
1. Law multiplied Adam’s sin in us
2. Grace multiplies Christ’s righteousness in us
2. 2 Cor. 5:14-17, 21
1. “We recognize no one according to the flesh”
2. “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come”
3. He became our sin so that we might become His righteousness
5. Conclusions
1. Godliness is not what we do, but who we are (”what does Jesus do”)
2. Partaking of Christ
3. Sacrifice and communion: how do we partake?
1. The resurrection means that the partaking is forever
2. Discern the body rightly, come, partake, be one with the Body and one in Christ
3. Godliness is as active and as passive as eating and drinking