Brett Younker joins us for THE FIVE, reminding us that it matters how we live and that being disciplined in our relationship with Christ is something to be celebrated. While we do not work FOR our salvation, we do work FROM our salvation.
Key Takeaway
Being saved is a one-time event and a life-long process.
God invites us into a life-long process of being saved.
Jesus should impact every part of your life, not just the spaces you invite Him into.
You are never alone because the Holy Spirit is living in you.
The Holy Spirit has the power to change your desires.
We have the power to surrender our lives to the Holy Spirit so that He can lead us.
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"We don't work for our salvation. We work from our salvation."
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Brett Younker
Discussion Questions
Are you in a stage of life where you're stressing about the future a lot?
How do you feel knowing that salvation is a life-long process, not just a one-time event?
Do you sometimes compartmentalize your spirituality? If yes, how so?
Have you struggled with loneliness lately? Do you truly believe that God is with you?
Have you ever prayed to desire to have the right desires?
Scripture References
Life Through the Spirit
1.Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2.because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me free from the law of sin and death. 3.For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13. God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.8:3 Or flesh, for sin And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4.in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5.Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6.The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7.The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8.Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
9.You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10.But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life8:10 Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11.And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of8:11 Some manuscripts bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.
12.Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13.For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
14.For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15.The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.8:15 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23. And by him we cry, “Abba,8:15 Aramaic for father Father.” 16.The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17.Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Present Suffering and Future Glory
18.I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19.For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20.For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21.that8:20,21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22.We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23.Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24.For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25.But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26.In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27.And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
28.And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who have been called according to his purpose. 29.For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30.And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
More Than Conquerors
31.What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32.He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33.Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34.Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35.Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36.As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”8:36 Psalm 44:22
37.No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38.For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39.neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psalm 3434 This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.,34 In Hebrew texts 34:1-22 is numbered 34:2-23.
Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelek, who drove him away, and he left.
1.I will extol the Lord at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
2.I will glory in the Lord;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
3.Glorify the Lord with me;
let us exalt his name together.
4.I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
5.Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.
6.This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
7.The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.
8.Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
9.Fear the Lord, you his holy people,
for those who fear him lack nothing.
10.The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
11.Come, my children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12.Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,
13.keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
14.Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
15.The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry;
16.but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth.
17.The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
18.The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
19.The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the Lord delivers him from them all;
20.he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.
21.Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
22.The Lord will rescue his servants;
no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
26.But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
12.Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13.And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14.You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.15.
“If you love me, keep my commands. 16.And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17.the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be14:17 Some early manuscripts and is in you.
About the Contributor
Brett Younker is a pastor, worship leader, and songwriter at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia. His heart is to help people see and know Jesus in a real way through preaching, teaching, music, or just hanging out. Over the last decade, Brett has helped carry the heart of Passion Music and the Passion Movement to the world, calling a generation to live for the glory of God. Brett has helped write many songs the Church is singing, including “Build My Life,” Fall Like Rain,” Christ Our King,” God, You’re So Good,” “Holy Ground,” “Worthy of Your Name,” and many others. He also hosts a podcast called Jesus Songs that explores the stories of some of the songs we sing each week in church. Brett and his wife, Aynsley, have three kids and a dog named Sgt Pepper. View more from the Contributor.