July 2 • Bible reading from Mark 8:34-38 Sacrificial Service
Behaviour: "God’s plans and priorities determine my life decisions."
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Text:
Then Jesus called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said:
"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the
gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of
Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."
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Take a minute:
"Jesus will be Lord of ALL or he won’t be Lord AT ALL." (Origen, 4th Century A.D.)
Why must we understand Jesus is Lord as well as Saviour over our life?
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Day 51: Sacrificial Service
July 1 • Bible reading from Philippians 3:7-12 Sacrificial Service
Behaviour: "God’s plans and priorities determine my life decisions."
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Text:
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more,
I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that
which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from
the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
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Take a minute:
What did you ‘lose’ to become a Christian?
Are those things truly ‘rubbish’ in your eyes yet? Pray they will become so.
Behaviour: "God’s plans and priorities determine my life decisions."
______
Text:
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more,
I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that
which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from
the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
_______
Take a minute:
What did you ‘lose’ to become a Christian?
Are those things truly ‘rubbish’ in your eyes yet? Pray they will become so.
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