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UPGRADING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

EPHESIANS 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,
which is the head, even Christ:

INTRO:

Self introduction
ME WE

UPGRADE meaning:
- an occurrence in which one thing is replaced by something better, newer, more
valuable

In order to upgrade we know


1st what is to be upgraded
2nd what do you want
3rd what you do to get what you want

GROW meaning:
- to become larger
- to increase in size
- to become better or improved in some way
- to become more developed, mature

Growing closer to God is a lifelong aspiration. Hindi matatapos hanggat buhay ka

there is something to GROW!


what is that?
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

Accept God
He will show you
What to be upgraded
What does
GOD
FOCUS: Spiritual Growth
1 Peter 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and
envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow
thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

I. LAY ASIDE : Putting aside denotes the image of taking off a garment in
order to put another garment on. Putting aside, taking off.
a. Malice -desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to anotherGuile –
deceitful; wickedness (morally very bad)
b. Hypocrisies - a feigning (false) to be what one is not or to believe what
one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel
c. Envies - painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by
another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage
d. Evil speaking -
image of taking off a garment in order to put another garment on
not be conformed to this world but be
transformed by the renewing of their minds
Are you living just like the world lives? I’m not talking
about Sunday, but Monday through Saturday;
Where do so often the hurts and the hindrances to ministry occur?
Isn’t it in this area of relationships with people.
Being deceitful. Being hypocrites,
envious, talking about people, putting them down, putting other churches down
LAY ASIDE EVERY SIN

II. LONG FOR : verse 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word,
(To have a very strong desire or yearning for someone or something)

Psalms 42:1 Kung paanong humihingal ang usa sa pagkauhaw sa tubig ng mga
batis, Gayon humihingal ang aking kaluluwa sa pagkasabik sa iyo, Oh Dios.
Being a Christian is not dependent upon, nor is it summed up by, simply
sitting in a pew and looking bored with the preacher. That isn’t the Christian
faith. The Christian faith is living dynamically. It’s a yearning for God, to know
God, to be excited about God.
LONG FOR THE THINGS OF GOD, HIS WORD

III. LEARN : Last part of 1 Peter 2:2, “That may grow thereby …,” that is, the
Word
When you are LAYING ASIDE the wrong things,
when you are LONGING for the things of God and His presence,
when you have a passion for Christ,
then comes the LEARNING.
LEARNING MORE OF HIM

CONCLUSION:
Verse 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
(kung natikman nga ninyo na ang Panginoon ay mabuti)

There is a conclusion here in verse three of our text. The conclusion is also a
challenge, LAY ASIDE, LONG FOR, LEARN: “so be ye have tasted that the Lord is
gracious” The word translated kindness is literally delicious. If you have tasted how
delicious the Lord is, The psalmist said in Psalms 34:8, “Oh inyong tikman at tingnan
ninyo na ang Panginoon ay mabuti: mapalad ang tao na nanganganlong sa kaniya. ”
Taste and see and Peter says here He’s delicious. He’s good food for the soul. The
bread of life for us.

If you’ve been born again, if you’ve really tasted of the Lord and found Him to be
delicious, then you will spurn, you will yearn, and you will learn. If these commands
do not characterize your life, if there isn’t the spurning, the yearning, or the learning,
the question then has to be asked, “Are you really saved?

To those of you who are believers, whose trust is Christ, this is the time to grow. Let’s
make the most of the time that God gives us.
YOU
WE

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