Formed: Election - Tim Brown

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday, Pastor Tim Brown continued our Fall sermon series, Formed, an exploration of the key doctrines surrounding a believer’s transformation from being dead in sin to being alive and formed in the image of Christ, with a teaching on election. This has been considered one of the most controversial and unsettling doctrines of the Christian faith, but Pastor Tim’s goal was to present the Scriptures with clarity, and allow his teaching to orient us around what God says instead of human opinion. Being rooted in truth, he encouraged us to go forth and seek God on this topic for more understanding.

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0:00.0	Well, good-day folks, welcome back to the church.nYC podcast. Thanks so much for joining us.
0:10.3	Wanted to let you know this autumn. We are going to be talking through the idea of spiritual formation.
0:16.3	This series is called Formed. And it is a journey through the key stages of development where someone
0:22.1	goes from being dead in sin into being formed into the image of Jesus. And it's really getting back
0:28.3	to the core concepts that are often overlooked in all the conversations about spiritual formation.
0:33.9	What does election, regeneration, justification, vivification, mortification, sanctification, these big terms,
0:41.6	what do they actually mean for the spirit's work within us, helping us move out of the brokenness
0:48.3	of our sin-stained flesh and into the fullness of life that God has for us?
0:52.8	How do we make sense of our stories in light of the resurrection of Jesus and the kingdom of God?
0:58.9	The word formed, we're taking from Galatians 419,
1:02.5	where Paul talks about being as in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in us.
1:08.1	Romans 8 tells us that we've been predestined to be conformed to the image of the sun.
1:12.6	Those are high theological terms and we're going to make them both practical and meaningful
1:18.7	over the course of these series. Thanks for tuning in. We can serve you in any way. Feel free to reach
1:23.8	out. Let's get back to the podcast. Peace.
1:38.1	Our teaching text comes from Ephesians chapter 1, verses 3 through 14. And it reads,
1:45.7	praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ, for he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be
1:51.6	holy and blameless in his sight. In love, he predestined us for adoption to sonship through
1:57.9	Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his
2:02.6	glorious grace which he has freely given us and the one he loves in him we have redemption through
2:09.1	his blood the forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he is lavished on us
2:15.4	with all wisdom and understanding he made known to us the
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