Living for the Lord
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How many of you like to watch movies?
How many of you like to watch movies?
How many of you like to read stories?
How many of you like to read stories?
How many of you like to write stories?
How many of you like to write stories?
Who knows the name of Alexandre Dumas?
Who knows the name of Alexandre Dumas?
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Your Life is Writing a Story.
Your Life is Writing a Story.
Your Life Impacts Others v7
Your Life Impacts Others v7
Positively or Negatively
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
Positively or Negatively. Pointing people to Christ or away from Christ.
Doug Maddox
A Christian Lives to Honor the Lord. v8a
A Christian Lives to Honor the Lord. v8a
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Why Did God Create All Things?
How Do You Glorify God?
For His Own Glory - ,
By loving, trusting, and obeying Him. - ,
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
How Do You Glorify God?
By loving, trusting, and obeying Him. - ,
A Christian Lives Securely v8b
A Christian Lives Securely v8b
ESV
ESV
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
God will not leave you or forsake you.
Sanctification - The process of becoming holy as God is holy.
A Christian Lives Surrendered
A Christian Lives Surrendered
and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
My Way or His Way
as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
Philipians 1:20
who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
You are writing a story?
You are writing a story?
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:1-3
2 Corinthians 3:1-3
Your Internet Searches are writing your story. - https://www.challies.com/christian-living/god-watches-you-google/
Searches that are private and immoral.
Searches that are private and moral.
Who are You Living for?
Who are You Living for?