"PERFECTION OF BEAUTY"
Intro: In this chapter, God speaks of how He took an outcast Bedouin
family and made them a strong, beautiful nation. It was just a
foreshadow of what He was to do for His church.
I. REMEMBER HOW WE WERE WHEN GOD FIRST CAME TO US.
"And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted..."
A. "Dead in trespasses and sins."
1. Spiritually dead.
2. "The wages of sin is death."
B. Our lives were without any eternal purpose.
1. Lost - wandering aimlessly.
2. Our lives were being wasted.
C. We were living as animals.
1. Following our instincts.
2. Ruled by our body appetites.
D. Without Christ.
1. Strangers to God.
2. Without hope.
II. WHAT GOD HAS DONE AND IS DOING FOR US.
A. Vs. 8b - "I entered into a covenant with thee..."
1. "This cup is a new covenant in My blood which is shed
for you."
2. He redeemed us from our slavery to sin and our flesh.
3. Now we are His!
a. "Know ye not that your our body is the
temple..."
B. "I washed thee with water."
1. He washed us from our past pollution.
2. He continues to wash us from the pollution of our daily
brush with the world.
a. "The blood of Jesus Christ..."
C. "I anointed thee with oil."
1. He placed the anointing of His Spirit upon our lives.
a. "After you believed, you were sealed with the
Holy Spirit of promise."
D. "I clothed thee," in His robes of righteousness.
1. With embroidered work.
a. Speaks of care and skill.
b. Handiwork - "You are His handiwork..."
2. Shod thee with badgers' skin.
a. A soft leather they dyed purple as a sign of
luxury.
b. How rich I am in Christ!
3. "I girded thee with fine linen."
a. A most expensive cloth to be worn by the priest
in their service to God.
b. "And to her was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen clean and white, for
the..."
c. "And to be found in Him, not clothed in..."
4. "I decked thee with jewelry."
a. Jesus said, "I have come that ye might have
life, and that more abundantly."
b. How the Lord loves to adorn His bride.
c. These ornaments can be likened unto the fruit
of the Spirit.
5. "And you were exceedingly beautiful."
a. "...Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me..."
b. The Spirit seeks to conform us into the image
of Christ.
1. "And we with open face beholding the
glory of the Lord..."
2. "Until we all come into the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Christ."
6. "For your beauty was perfect through my comeliness,
which I had put upon thee."
a. "And when before the throne, I stand in Him
complete."
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Chuck Smith (1927 - 2013)
Pastor Chuck was used in the Jesus People revival where he was used along with others to minister to the hippy young people. They saw a work of the Spirit where many were added to the church and discipled. He has raised up many pastors who are a part of the Calvary Chapel movement now and where he pastors the large Costa Mesa church in California.The Calvary Chapel movement is based of simple principles that Chuck Smith taught over the years such as: The priority of agape love, Simple fellowship amongst the saints, the breaking of bread, the teaching of God's word chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And lastly and most importantly the principle not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord.