Transforming Lives: The Journey to Christlikeness
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Paul said For Those whom he fornew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son that is a process that you'll spend the rest of your life going through and the Lord crafting you and making you more and more like Jesus doesn't happen overnight. [00:36:32]
If you've gone through that narrow gate you should be coming more separated from the world over time and you should becoming more humble with God and other people and you should be increasingly living the mercy life learning to love other people not just be focused on yourself. [00:37:23]
The world is a social system contrived by Satan to where people can live their lives without God. That's how I would define it, I guess, live their lives without God. I mean you don't have to answer to him, just like Luke read that definition of humanism, your life without God. [00:38:18]
Today we are confronted by two worlds, two spheres of authority having two totally different and opposed characters. Thus salvation is not so much a personal question of sins forgiven or of Hell avoided; it is to be seen rather in terms of a system from which we come out. [00:39:16]
The word for church in the Greek is Ecclesia which literally means called out of and the picture of it is the whole world is headed in a direction. Just you know the picture I've had in my mind is like a freeway like Interstate 10 in California goes all the way from Florida. [00:40:01]
Living the Christian Life will cost you but the alternative is Unthinkable. The alternative is Unthinkable. I'm going to start wrapping this up. I want to do it with something Paul wrote. He told the Corinthians the word of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. [00:44:20]
If you have embraced the cross then it means that day by day you're becoming more saved than you were before. You know not, um, how do I say this because in a sense you're either saved you or not but this is also a process that happens in your life. [00:46:25]
The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the full day. That's what it's like. On the other hand, if you have a dained for the word of the cross it means that you are in the process of perishing. [00:47:30]
The narrow path you look at it and it seems impossible. You know why it seems so hard? Because you've been on this path all this time. You've never had to say no to yourself. You've been able to give yourself everything you want and so then you guys look over here. [00:50:10]
Joy inside that becomes more and more real to you and it's like almost like it doesn't matter what's going on around you or outside or coming at you. There is just a joy that no one can take away from you, a peace with God that no one can disrupt. [00:51:11]
Don't walk away from this message with the mindset that you've got to try harder to deny yourself, try harder to pick up your cross, try harder to emulate the Lord, try harder to separate from the world. If that's what you're getting out of this message, you're not hearing me. [00:54:14]
If you go out there on that Ridge, go out on that prayer trail, go down to the creek, go in your room, whatever, stay in here, come to the altar if you want and really fight it through with the Lord, think about it, consider it, and then if you are determined. [00:59:25]
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If you've gone through that narrow gate you should be coming more separated from the world over time and you should becoming more humble with God and other people and you should be increasingly living the mercy life learning to love other people not just be focused on yourself. [00:37:23]
The world is a social system contrived by Satan to where people can live their lives without God. That's how I would define it, I guess, live their lives without God. I mean you don't have to answer to him, just like Luke read that definition of humanism, your life without God. [00:38:18]
Today we are confronted by two worlds, two spheres of authority having two totally different and opposed characters. Thus salvation is not so much a personal question of sins forgiven or of Hell avoided; it is to be seen rather in terms of a system from which we come out. [00:39:16]
The word for church in the Greek is Ecclesia which literally means called out of and the picture of it is the whole world is headed in a direction. Just you know the picture I've had in my mind is like a freeway like Interstate 10 in California goes all the way from Florida. [00:40:01]
Living the Christian Life will cost you but the alternative is Unthinkable. The alternative is Unthinkable. I'm going to start wrapping this up. I want to do it with something Paul wrote. He told the Corinthians the word of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. [00:44:20]
If you have embraced the cross then it means that day by day you're becoming more saved than you were before. You know not, um, how do I say this because in a sense you're either saved you or not but this is also a process that happens in your life. [00:46:25]
The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the full day. That's what it's like. On the other hand, if you have a dained for the word of the cross it means that you are in the process of perishing. [00:47:30]
The narrow path you look at it and it seems impossible. You know why it seems so hard? Because you've been on this path all this time. You've never had to say no to yourself. You've been able to give yourself everything you want and so then you guys look over here. [00:50:10]
Joy inside that becomes more and more real to you and it's like almost like it doesn't matter what's going on around you or outside or coming at you. There is just a joy that no one can take away from you, a peace with God that no one can disrupt. [00:51:11]
Don't walk away from this message with the mindset that you've got to try harder to deny yourself, try harder to pick up your cross, try harder to emulate the Lord, try harder to separate from the world. If that's what you're getting out of this message, you're not hearing me. [00:54:14]
If you go out there on that Ridge, go out on that prayer trail, go down to the creek, go in your room, whatever, stay in here, come to the altar if you want and really fight it through with the Lord, think about it, consider it, and then if you are determined. [00:59:25]
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