and Living the Dash"
The Principles and Verses..are from Pastor's message..I added the comments.
If you go to the cemetery, graveyard, memorial garden, or whatever name you give
to the place where we bury our loved ones. You will find that the gravestones mark
the date they were born then a dash followed by the date they died.
The dash represents the time they lived on earth.
Our text this morning was John 10:10
10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Choosing How to Live the Dash
Principle 1: Jesus lived passionately
(and we should too he is our example..he made his time on earth to count for something!)
1 John 5:11-12 (King James Version)
11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Principle 2: Jesus Loved(s) Completely
John 13:1 (KJV)
1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out
of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Jesus knew his time of death was near
"He loved his own".. means his family ,
and those close to him. He loved them to the end.
Principle 3: Jesus learned Humbly
Philippians 2:5-8 (King James Version)
5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
We need to be reading and studying the Bible (The Word)..that is putting His mind in us..
Jesus made of himself no reputation..he became a servant although He was the King of kings..he humbled himself
so should we.
Principle 4: Jesus Left Boldly
Luke 9:51 (King James Version)
51And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem
It was not easy knowing he was giving his life for the salvation of all those who would believe in his sacrificial death.
He sweat drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane while praying to the Father..not my will but yours be done.
But He boldly..faced His death on the cross.
Instead of trying to please everyone..we should set our mind on pleasing God our Father...even to the very end.
Pastor Michael Dubbles-Message
River Of Life /Assembly of God-Church
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