A Life Message

Everybody has a life message

It is a Message

++About you

++In You

++For you

Paul’s Life Message

1 Corinthians 1:18 NKJV

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 2:1–5 NKJV

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

A Life Message

++Declares purpose

++Reveals Identity

++Releases Hope

The Message of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18 NKJV

18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

One message two responses

What shapes our response to the Cross?

The Responses

++Of the perishing

++Of the one who are being saved

The Gospel is the Good News

It tells us

++We are not stuck

++There is hope

Hebrews 7:25 NKJV

25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

The Power of a Testimony

The word Testimony (OT)

An Action

++Witness

++To provide evidence

++To give an answer

++To reply

An Item

++Law

++Legal provision

Exodus 25:21–22 NKJV

You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.

An Item

Law

Legal provision

++Divine revelation from God

The Ark (Salvation)

The Ark of God (God ‘s Power)

The Ark of the Covenant (God’s Agreement with man)

The Ark of Testimony (God’s message in man’s life)

The word testimony (NT)

The word of a Witness

First hand knowledge

A testimony declares

++The Presence of God

++The Provision of God

++The Power of God

2 Corinthians 1:12 NKJV

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

Hebrews 11:5 NKJV

By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.