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In this lesson, we learned that the believer needs spiritual instruction. What would the Christian life be like without teaching on how to live it?
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As with anything, we have to have teaching to know how to do something. We could not live the Christian life if we did not how teach on how to live it. Through this teaching, the Holy Spirit reveals these things to and and help transform us so we can live the Christian life. Without teaching, e would be relying on worldly things and our own ability. That would lead us to a life with no direction.
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We would live a worldly life and not one conformed to the teachings of Jesus.
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It would not look like the Christian life. I would look much like the world and much like we did prior to salvation. We would have no idea how the “new man” was supposed to behave. Most likely we would “do what is right in our own eyes”, lean on our own understand and fall into the trap described in Proverb 14:12 “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”
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Without those instructions on Christian living from the epistles, we’d each come up with our own understanding of what is Christian living, and that will not be God’s will for our lives. There would be no Christians at that point.
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Without having the Word of God and the teachings then we would be in self. Each person would have their own idea of how to live a Christian life and being human they would say that their way was the right way but by being taught through the Word of God we see that God has a plan and teaches the way to live a Christian life in a unified way and that is why we are saved by grace so that no one person feels superior to another.