Posts Tagged ‘ Die to self ’
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:2, CSB
Jesus calls us to emerge from and engage this world with the gospel, and He helps us every step of the way, for He is our Creator and Savior.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39 ESV
In world focused on ignoring God and loving self, we gather together to encourage each other to love God and others sacrificially.
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19, ESV
Let us worship our God for loving us enough to come and die for us and by loving others with that same love.
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:24, ESV
God came as one of us to show what His love, grace, and faithfulness looks like – even to death on a cross for the forgiveness of sins.
Let us live faithfully in Christ’s faithfulness, following His example, to a fallen world.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
John 15:12, ESV
God became a man to show us His love and grace, reminding us of the greatest commandments: Love God and love others.
Now we share His grace by loving His saved and forgiven people, the Church, as well.
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9, ESV
Our God came to us to give us His love, grace, and forgiveness. If we truly believe this and confess Jesus’ death and resurrection, we are granted this salvation from God’s wrath against our sin.
that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being
Ephesians 3:16, ESV
God has offered through His Son all grace, love, and forgiveness of sins, and is thusly worthy of all honor and praise.
God has offered through His Holy Spirit to boldly share that grace, love, and salvation with this world to His glory.
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you
1 Peter 5:6, ESV
We were made by God, and He has made us to glorify Him and make His love, grace, goodness known. Let us joyfully submit to this call to follow His Son.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28, ESV
The most important identity we can have is that we belong to Christ, that we love God.
And God agrees. All of history was designed to glorify Christ and draw us to Him.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Ephesians 5:1, ESV
Is your identity found in Christ? Do people look at you, like the earliest believers, and think of you as a little Christ (Christian)?
a simple man of God 