a life worth living. 80 years 29, 200 days 700,800 hours 42+ million minutes 233,000 “self-...
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A Life Worth Living
80 Years29, 200 Days
700,800 Hours
42+ millionminutes
233,000 “self-
determined” hours
“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the
progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday,
for what was or might have been. But as we are yearning,
the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but
our yearning for second chances.”
A Life Worth Living:A Promise of Powerful Living in ChristA Glorious ministry
2 Corinthians 3:7-18
Glorious – Powerful; displays the character of God
1) Glorious 2) a great hope 3) we are very bold 4) we are
being transformed into Christ’s likeness in ever
increasing glory.
1) Glorious 2) a great hope 3) we are very bold 4) we are being transformed into Christ’s likeness in ever
increasing glory.
1) Glorious 2) a great hope 3) we are very bold 4) we are being transformed into Christ’s likeness in ever
increasing glory.
Does this describe you?
More than conquerorsRomans 8:28-39
1) God works out all things for your good v.28
2) God is “on our side” v. 31
3) No charge of condemnation v.33
4) Nothing can separate us from his love v.35,39
5) We are more than conquerors v. 37
1) God works out all things for your good v.282) God is “on our side” v. 31
3) No charge of condemnation v.33
4) Nothing can separate us from his love v.35,395) We are more than conquerors v. 37
Does this describe you?
~ Life of dullness ~ Despair and fear ~ Feeble effort
~ Failing miserably ~ Conquered ~ Hardly anything
works out~ God who is angry
with us and barely likes us?
~ Lasting glory ~ Hope and boldness, ~ Transformed ~ More than conquerors ~ Works out for our good ~ God on our side ~ Never be separated
The Ping Pong Christian Life
The Ping Pong Christian Life
RevivalRevival is an invasion from heaven that brings a conscious awareness of God
Renew
A life of renewal instead of a search for revival
Renewal is taking what God has given you and putting it into
practice.Your “newness” is a gift and a reality from God.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has
come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through
Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation 2 Cor. 5:17,18
A life of renewal instead of a search for revival
Into Christ = New Life
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into
death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new
life.Romans 6:4
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is
being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your
minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in
true righteousness and holiness.
Eph. 4:22-24
Made New = Responsibility in Renewal
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what
God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2
Made New = Responsibility in Renewal
Laziness: your greatest hindrance to
renewal
The responsibility of renewal lies directly in the lap of each
individual Christian. God has already “done
something” in fact, has done everything
needed for renewal.Definition of renewal: A person full of Jesus
As long as you drink from the
water of life you hardly
think of your need. When you stop drinking from him the
need for renewal becomes critical.
Renewal is like thirst. As long as you stay hydrated you never
really think of the need for water.
Jesus stood and said in a
loud voice, “If anyone is
thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever
believes in me, as the
Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”
John 7:37