Labour Day 2025 - Meeting 3 (Learning Christ and Being Disciplined by Our Heavenly Father)

**Sorry about the poor audio quality!!!** A. To know Christ is to come to Him and learn of Him (Matt. 11:28-30) 1. To be trained is to be disciplined (Luk. 6:39-42) 2. Disciplining the body, control over the mind (1 Cor. 9:27; Rom. 8:5-8; Phil. 4:8; Col. 3:2) 3. Renewing the mind (Rom. 12:2) 4. A new heart and new spirit (Ezek. 36:26) B. To Learn Christ is to walk in the newness of life (Rom. 6:1-4) 1. Being filled with the Spirit to overcome LUSTS which gives rise to sins; the root of sin is lust; the power of sin is the flesh (Matt. 5:28; 1 Jn. 2:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:4; Gal. 5:16-18) 2. Active, purposeful separation from the world and consecration (1 Jn. 2:15-17) 3. Pursuit of holiness (Heb. 12:14) 4. Faith perfected through works (James 2:22) 5. Fellowship with God and the saints 6. Labouring of love in the Church (1 Thess. 1:3) 7. Faith of the saints going out as a visible witness of Christ (1 Thess. 1:8) 8. Fragrance of Christ (2 Cor. 2:14) C. To learn Christ is to be His bride, His counterpart, the heaven Jerusalem 1. The church as the light of the world and a city on a hill (Matt. 5:14) 2. Possibility of defiling garments (Rev. 3:4-5) 3. Warning against self-righteousness (Matt. 23:23-28) 4. Do not be quick to (judge) condemn others, the Lord is the judge who brings to light (1 Cor. 4:4-7) 5. Put off the old man, put on the new man (Eph. 4:22-24)