C: RELY ON GODS RESOURCES
His Sprit
I cor 3:16
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
I cor 2:12
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
His Strength
Isiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Phil 4:13
I can do everything through him who gives me strength
His Faithfulness
Lam 3:22-23
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
His Peace
Isiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you
I Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
His Provision
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Phil 4:19
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus
His Help In Temptation
Psalm 119:9,11
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Heb 2:18
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
D: BE CHRISTS DESCIPLE
Put Christ First
Matt 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Luke 9:23
Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Separate From World
I John 2:15-16
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
...e toward him as well, since at one point he felt he deserved to die for what he had done. This grace gives him a purpose and strength to go on living, even though he may never completely overcome the hurt and pain.
of Christ" . With that purpose in mind, God matches the believers gift to the "particular
By giving our lives to him we will be free from the evil in our society. This is where the problem lies within our religion. Because we are all sinners we think that we can do it all on our own. We would rather be with our friends than glorifying our God. Christians in today 's society have become extremely self centered. If it does not help us in any way then we don’t want to do it. Because of our self centeredness we think that we can fix the social problem by ourselves. If we try to convince people that they need God in their lives but we don’t even think we need him; how well is that going to work? Not very well. Kuyper says that as Christians, before we help any of our fellow brothers and sisters in need that we need to make sure that we are doing it for the right reasons. As we serve, we should also find ways to show God 's’ glory through what we are doing instead of what we are
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1 John 4:8)
He makes mistakes and he knows, "…I'm not God." However what he does know is
lead a good life. He wants us to know that we can sin, its completely
If Christ had made atonement for all, then he would pray for them but he does not. What grace we have received, we are saved, thank God.
... showed all this and rewarded us so that one day we would be notice his kindness. The Christian is made alive in God and does good works for him. He does this to show his everlasting grace to everyone.
because of all of the lives that he saved and will later be saved. In
..., not only will we acknowledge the needs of others by redeeming ourselves from sensuality, but avoid being prideful by acknowledging how unessential material wealth is in our own lives. When we do this we will break out of the the “competitive rat-race without meaning”, or the “vicious circle” (Arrupe 10), by choosing God’s love and the love for others.
As a surrendered life to Christ, my intentions on earth are good. However, I live a human life, wretched and sinful by the simplest measures perhaps unrecognizable to most, yet blatantly known to God. In this truth I find comfort. I know that no matter how hard it gets when attempting to behave as Jesus would have me in the face of any and all adversity, “God gives me Grace!” He already knows my heart and my failures even before I experience them. He set up a way for me to be redeemed and to overcome through His son, Christ Jesus. He did this for me through grace, and He offers His love and blessings to me regardless of me. I can’t buy God’s grace. I can’t gain God’s grace by doing good deeds. God freely grants it to me, and you, simply because He loves us, who are undeserving of His love. This act of grace is nearly unfathomable as a human being! My entire being melts to ground at His feet where I wade in pool of gratitude for this benevolent undeserving gift, His grace. The moment we start to think that we deserve His grace because we are good or righteous, is a moment when we are seriously misguided and in danger. We are not perfect. We are not God. The best of us are like filthy rags when compared to His holiness. “…all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.” Isaiah 64:6
become a Christian, a disciple of Christ. In this we have to be a good
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! “Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,”
Because Christ was human he experienced all the trials and temptations that we experience. Christ, however was strong enough to resist all temptation and lived a life without sinning - that is without disobeying God."[Jesus Christ] was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15). Christ was "obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.". (Philippians 2:8)
his life around. We all must do this if we want to be followers of