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  (AUDIO BOOK) AT HIS DISPOSAL
  by Major Ian Thomas
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the transformative power of redemption
through Christ's atoning death, highlighting the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit in believers. It explores the concept of passing from death to
life, being raised with Christ, and living out the very life of Christ
through the Spirit's work. The Christian life is portrayed as a union
with Christ, where believers offer their entire being to Christ for His
use, enabling a shift from self-centeredness to God-centeredness.

Topics: "Redemption", "Union with Christ"
Scripture References: Ephesians 2:5, Romans 8:2, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 3:3, 1 Corinthians 6:19

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This sermon emphasizes the transformative power of redemption through
Christ's atoning death, highlighting the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
in believers. It explores the concept of passing from death to life,
being raised with Christ, and living out the very life of Christ through
the Spirit's work. The Christian life is portrayed as a union with
Christ, where believers offer their entire being to Christ for His use,
enabling a shift from self-centeredness to God-centeredness.

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CONTENT
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The moment you are redeemed through the atoning death of Christ upon the
cross, you receive the Holy Spirit within your human spirit. You have
passed from death to life raised from the dead and the life which has
been imparted to you by the Holy Spirit is the very life of Christ
himself. He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with
Christ.

He gave us the very life of Christ himself, the same new life with which
he quickened him Ephesians 2-5, the life that the Lord Jesus Christ
lived for you nineteen hundred years ago condemns you, but the life that
he now lives in you saves you. The Christian life is the life which he
lived then, lived now, by him in you, as he behaved in the sinless
humanity which the Father had prepared for him then, so he wants to
behave in your humanity presented to him now, your mind placed at his
disposal through the indwelling Holy Spirit, your emotions, your will,
all that you are and have made available to the Lord Jesus Christ as a
living member of his new corporate body on earth, which is called the
Church. This is the new law in action, the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus, re-establishing the faith-love relationship between your
soul and God, making it possible for you to declare the Son, as once the
Son declared the Father, your behaviour mechanism once more wholly
deocentric instead of egocentric, so that the commandment of the law may
find fulfilment in you, whose conduct, no longer under the control of
your lower nature, is directed by the Spirit.

A radical change of government.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/S-q-R586010.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/major-ian-thomas/audio-book-at-his-disposal/
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