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1. What does it look like to believe in Jesus?
God Does Things on Purpose
** While reading 31-33**
God and the Gospel
He planned the Gospel story
He promised the Gospel Story
He performed and executed the Gospel Story
The Gospel story HAD to happen this way
** While reading 31-33**
Jesus HAD to suffer, be rejected, be killed, and raise again
It was NECESSARY
It MUST happen
People who say that the way to heaven doesn’t have to happen with rejection and suffering and being killed and coming back to life:
They are not thinking about God’s concerns
They are thinking about Satan’s/human concerns
Notice that they are the same: human and Satan- equally damned
These broken, evil minds do not hate the world and love God.
They love the things of this world and hate God— Jesus says that these things need to be switched
Neither think that salvation HAS to happen this way
Things that stand opposed to God: Hate.
Things that are not worthy of God: hate.
Things you possess that you think are bigger or better than God: Hate.
Things that you hear and feel that draw you to look at yourself worthy of praise over God: hate.
So, people will also disagree our salvation HAS to happen this way.
Is it really necessary that Christian faith means we do uncomfortable things, we give up things we love, we change our lives all around?
“Whoever does not hate his mother and father is not worthy of me”
This passage is teaching us that faith, belief, trust, following Jesus- can’t be faked.
That is the question we are going to ask.
What does it really look like to believe?
I love my mom and my dad and my family- Good.
You should.
And you should love Jesus 100,000 times more.
He is your greatest love.
Jesus is saying it HAS to look a certain way, Satan and the sinful man are saying something different.
It HAS to be real and the come the way God said it has to.
God said salvation HAD to happen this way, and this (Rejection, suffering, death, and resurrection) is the only way to get to it… How then do WE get it?
How do we get through the rejection, the suffering, the killing and into this new resurrected life with God?
“believe”, “repent and believe”
Believe in Jesus
Jesus is important
Get behind ME
Follow ME
Deny himself, take up his cross and follow ME
Lose his life because of ME
Whoever is ashamed of ME and MY words… I will be ashamed of him
Jesus is really important: He is how you get to the Father
No one comes to the Father except through ME
He says “follow ME”
Now we know who we are supposed to believe
Believe in Jesus
“Believe”, “repent and believe”
We have lost a lot of that word means
Jesus said “believe in me” or “have faith” and it meant something more than how we use it to mean “be convinced for now”
Belief is where we the New-Self is born
I think this passage explains:
2. Believe in Jesus means FOLLOWING
Believers follow.
And following is defined here: denying ourselves, picking up our crosses, and following him
3. FOLLOWING means DENYING, CARRYING, and FOLLOWING
No room for pretending or living it half-way
Nobody should trick themselves into thinking that life doing a little bit of church will get you good with God—
You are called to be a follower, not a fake.
Following
Step 1: Live the New You
Believing in Jesus as your King means that he brings to life a new you.
A You who loves good and hates bad
A You who can hear and feel the Holy Spirit
A You who He has good works ready for
Free from sin and death
Walk according to the Spirit
Live according to the Spirit
Life and peace
Spirit of God living in you
Bring your body back to life
Put to death the old you so that you can live
Put to death the old you so that you can live
This new you has a job: Fight the old you
Put to death the old you so that you can live
Step 2: Fight the Old You
By the power of the Holy Spirit, you will now deny yourself
Again, we have lost a lot of this meaning over time.
But think of it as the two dogs inside fighting.
Which one wins?
Whichever one you feed more.
Which ever one you believe more
It really is which ever one you BELIEVE that makes it:
: So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh, because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die.
But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
OBLIGATED- means we have to.
**Debtors— free in verse 2**
Christian Standard Bible.
(2017).
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Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
Do you believe that you have to keep some sin?
Think a certain way?
Keep those bitter feelings?
Hold on to that habit?
What are you actually OBLIGATED to do?
**Addict recovery: starving yourself of something that would hurt you if you had it**
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