How can I be more Like Jesus?
How can I be more like Jesus?
Well, you in and of yourself...you can't do it! That is the bad news....
The Good News...
Colossians 3:1-17
"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
And where do we get the power to do this???
Colossians 1:27
"To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."
It is Christ living IN you!
Many of us think that it is Christ AND me...Oh, yeah me and Jesus. We're going to go knock down the gates of hell and...
Jesus is thinkin': "Well, I could work with you."
But it is not Jesus AND...
Jesus and You does not = Victory
Jesus and Me does not = Victory
Jesus and ... does not = Victory
JESUS = VICTORY
God was and is so convinced (and rightly so) that we could not live the Christian life, that He sent Jesus (His only Son) to die and nail our sins to the cross. And not only that but God raised Jesus from the dead to live and rule for all eternity! Christ is alive living the Christian life in His people!
Colossians 2:13-15
"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him."
How do I be more like Jesus?
I step aside every second of every day that I am breathing, and allow Jesus Christ to live the Christian life IN me! I can't do it, BUT, Christ IN me can!!!
It is nothing that I can do, only what Christ can do In and Through me!!!
Christ = Victory
Victory over death
Victory over sin
Victory over the accuser (Satan)
Victory In my life
Victory In your life
Christ = Victory
In Christ,
David
Well, you in and of yourself...you can't do it! That is the bad news....
The Good News...
Colossians 3:1-17
"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
And where do we get the power to do this???
Colossians 1:27
"To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."
It is Christ living IN you!
Many of us think that it is Christ AND me...Oh, yeah me and Jesus. We're going to go knock down the gates of hell and...
Jesus is thinkin': "Well, I could work with you."
But it is not Jesus AND...
Jesus and You does not = Victory
Jesus and Me does not = Victory
Jesus and ... does not = Victory
JESUS = VICTORY
God was and is so convinced (and rightly so) that we could not live the Christian life, that He sent Jesus (His only Son) to die and nail our sins to the cross. And not only that but God raised Jesus from the dead to live and rule for all eternity! Christ is alive living the Christian life in His people!
Colossians 2:13-15
"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him."
How do I be more like Jesus?
I step aside every second of every day that I am breathing, and allow Jesus Christ to live the Christian life IN me! I can't do it, BUT, Christ IN me can!!!
It is nothing that I can do, only what Christ can do In and Through me!!!
Christ = Victory
Victory over death
Victory over sin
Victory over the accuser (Satan)
Victory In my life
Victory In your life
Christ = Victory
In Christ,
David
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