Date: 10-Nov-2024
Name: Richard Aki
Topic: FOR ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN
Content:
Anytime we say yes to the Holy Spirit something powerful happens in the inside of us and in the atmosphere around us. I summarises that experience into 3:
A. We die to ourselves
B. We leave for Christ
C. The fragrance of His grace and presence is released around us and the city.
1. We die to ourselves:- John 6:63 Paul describes this experience as dying daily. Scripture says ;a, that flesh profits nothing. It’s the spirit that quickens. B, “If the Spirit of Him who raise Jesus from the death dwells in us, He will quicken our mortal bodies. C, They that are in the flesh cannot please God. D, our old man is crucified with Christ that the love of God might dwell in us. Prayer Point 1. God teach me what it means to die to flesh. Give my grace to rise up and take up my cross daily to follow You, up from this “ misty low land of living after the dictates of the flesh where I have wondered so long. Come, Thou fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing Thy grace, Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. prone to leave the Lord I love. -Robert Robinson. Strengthen with us the new heart that is prone to Worship. A new creation reality.
2. We live for Christ. A, If the Spirit of Him that raise Christ from the dead dwells in us He will quicken our mortal body. B, Grace that brings Salvation has appeared unto us teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust. Titus 2: 11-14. C. John 10:10, .. But I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance. D. If through one man sin can into the world and all become sinners, much more those that received abundance of life and gift of righteousness shall rain in life. E. As He is so we are in this world. F. Alive in Christ. For me to live is Christ…
3. Something of His life is released into the atmosphere are us.: A, We’re the light of the world a city on the hill cannot be hidden. B. You are the aroma of Christ to the world. 2 Corinthians 2:15 “For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing “ verse 14 say He leads us in Triumph.. as we walk in victory God’s Kingdom takes ground around us and takes charge of the atmosphere around us. “14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
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