WCCC Day 4 Special Topic - Live out the character of Christ

Brother Sun Section 3. Exercise Godliness

提前1 Tim 4:7 只是要棄絕那世俗的言語、和老婦荒渺的話、在敬虔上操練自己。操練身體、益處還少．惟獨敬虔、凡事都有益處．因有今生和來生的應許．

I. What is Godliness: Like God
II. Spiritual gifts can't build up church, the root problem is our character. Our character many times becomes other people's problem, this including our family life. Only Christ's character is the complete/perfect character. Salvation is not just merely for people to be saved, but for people to become the building materials for God's house. Where there are Christ characters, there are the house of God. More the Christ characters, more the present of God.
III. Exercise Godliness and Exercise Body:
Good characters benefit our body in our normal daily living habits.
IV. Holy Spirit and Godliness:
God gave unlimited Holy Spirit to Jesus is because He has a Godliness and a complete character. With Holy Spirit, there is spiritual reality. In fact, if you have Christ, you have everything. Jesus' character is the character that can cooperate with Holy Spirit.
V. The principle of God using us:
Our problem:
Spirit inspire, we don't move; or Spirit did not inspire us, we move.
Our character determine the degree that our God use us, and how useful we are in the Kingdom of God. When God looks at all matters, He looks for how many Christ characters are in there, not how successful these things are. Therefore, the principle of God - are we a convenience or inconvenience tool? For example, are we inspired to visit others and bring the life of Christ to them, or we visit others merely because we like it? are we inspired to visit others, but we delay that inspire, or we diligent obey to do under His command?
VI. What are the Christ characters:
1. Easily to be filled by Spirit: example - Steven's death (as Jesus martyred);
2. Easily to give: example - Abraham - give his only son (as Father give his beloved Son);
3. Easily to be changed:
4. Balance character: example: the church in Corinth, different groups love different brothers (1 Cor1:12)
5. Closely guarded character: not loose, not drift here and there