Living Beyond Yourself

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Living Beyond Yourself
Moving from Assent to Passion
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• No sacrifice is too great
• if we find pleasure in it.

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• God takes great pleasure in bringing his children
  into his family even though the sacri-fice was
  extreme.

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God has

• Adopted us as children
• Given us redemption through his blood
• Given the Holy Spirit to assure us of our
  salvation

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• verse 4 - He did it in love
• verse 5 - He did it according to his pleasure and
  will
• verse 6 - that it is to the praise of his
  glorious grace (mercy)
• verse 8 - he lavished these things on us

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• It was the Fathers
• pleasure to do so.

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Paul prays with a pastors heart that the people,
in return, take
pleasure in God
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Ephesians 115-16

• 15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your
  faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all
  the saints, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks
  for you, remem-bering you in my prayers.

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• Marks of a Spiritually
  Healthy Church
• Faith in the Lord Jesus confidence or trust in
  a person
• Love for all the Saints not just some but all,
  not to all the same degree but without malice

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• Do I love being in fellowship with Him?
• Do I love being in fellowship with His people?

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Pauls Prayer List

• 1. Reach Out
  
• 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you
  the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you
  may know him better.

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God loves you and created you to know Him
personally.

• John 173 - Now this is eternal life that they
  may know you, the only true God, and Jesus
  Christ, whom you have sent.

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• "The Scriptures were not given for our
  information, but were given for our
  transformation."
• D.L. Moody

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• Father, I want to know you better. Make me a
  man/woman after your own heart. I want to know
  you.

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• Ephesians 417-24
• So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord,
  that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do,
  in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are
  darkened in their understanding and separated
  from the life of God because of the ignorance
  that is in them due to the hardening of their
  hearts.

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• 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given
  themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in
  every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for
  more.

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• 20 You, however, did not come to know Christ that
  way.

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• 21 Surely you heard of him and were taught in him
  in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22
  You were taught, with regard to your former way
  of life, to put off your old self, which is being
  corrupted by its deceitful desires 23 to be made
  new in the attitude of your minds 24 and to put
  on the new self, created to be like God in true
  righteousness and holiness.

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• Truth leads to fruitfulness
• and freedom

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1 Corinthians 1312 Now we see but a poor
reflection as in a mirror then we shall see face
to face. Now I know in part then I shall know
fully, even as I am fully known.
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• Thats the goal of knowing him intimacy with
  him.

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• 2. Catch the Vision
• 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may
  be enlightened in order that you may know the
  hope to which he has called you, the riches of
  his glorious inheri-tance in the saints

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• 3. Grow Strong
• 19 and his incomparably great power for us
  who believe.

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• Our lives
• should reflect
• his power.

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1 Corinthians 118-19

• 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.

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2 Corinthians 127-10

• To keep me from becoming conceited because of
  these surpassingly great revelations, there was
  given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of
  Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded
  with the Lord to take it away from me.

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2 Corinthians 127-10

• 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for
  you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
• Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about
  my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on
  me.

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____ I will seek the Lord for __________ minutes
every day this week
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• How can I keep from singing Your praiseHow can
  I ever say enoughHow amazing is Your LoveHow
  can I keep from shouting Your NameI know I am
  loved by the KingAnd it makes my heart want to
  sing