Romans # 68
A Living Sacrifice
March 12, 2000
Last Sunday we examined ROMANS
12:1 where Paul said, ¶I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your
reasonable service. Let's pray…
We found in our study that Paul spoke of several things in this one verse of Scripture. He spoke of the following:
1.
Present your Bodies.
2.
A Living Sacrifice
3.
One which is Holy
4.
One which is Acceptable
5.
This presentation is Reasonable
6.
It is our Service To God
Last week we examined point
number 1. Present your Bodies.
The first thing we examined
was the presentation which Paul speaks of here. He said, Present your bodies…So
we first examined this approach that he was speaking of. Paul is suggesting
that we each have a sacrifice to be made to God, and our approach is very
important. We are to lay this sacrifice at the feet of the Almighty. And it is
to be done in a spirit of free will offering, from our heart, openly and
without regret. It is a present, therefore, what we are doing is a gift to God.
Not an obligation, not a penalty, but a free will gift. One that you are not
under penalty to perform, but one in which you want to, you desire to do.
BELIEVEST THOU THIS?
50-0716 E-81 It's your approach to a Divine gift what brings the results. It's the
way you come to it. Isn't that right? The way you approach anything...
MINISTRY OF CHRIST 53-0607
E-62 But, brother, let me tell you
something now. It's your attitude towards any Divine gift, your approach to
that attitude determines what you're going to get out of it.
PROVING HIS WORD 65-0426 31 It's your approach. The attitude is what it takes. And that's what
it is tonight, dear friend; it takes the attitude. We are, and believe that we are in the Presence of Jesus Christ, but
it's your attitude that brings the results. The mechanics is here and so is the
dynamics. If you can just get started, God will do the rest.
So, even in the very presence
of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our attitude and our approach to God that will
determine whether we get anything out of His Presence or not.
The next thing we examined pertaining to this verse was where Paul
called it a living sacrifice, Paul said, I
beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice.
We looked at the walk and how it was to be performed in an exact
way. From the message, LAW OR GRACE 54-1006
127 brother Branham said, Now, the high priest, being anointed, going
in, he had to take the blood of an animal with him or he would die. And another thing, about his garment. Did
you know, at the end of that garment, did you ever know what was on the end of
it? He had something on the end of it. And every... It was a little thing
hanged down at the end of the border of his garment, and it was a pomegranate
and a bell, and a pomegranate and a bell.
And he had to walk a certain way
when he went in. He couldn't make himself just any way. He had to walk a
certain way. For every time he made a step, them bells had to play, bumping
against the pomegranates, "Holy, holy, holy unto the Lord." Then the
Lord heard him on the approach. Amen. Hallelujah. There it is. God hears you
if you're coming God's provided way on your approach, for you're coming, crying
from your heart, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty." There
you're entering though, when you come seeking for the Holy Spirit. See?
"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty." 131And then, the congregation,
the only way they knowed... Now, if you
went in there not dressed exactly that way, he'd have died in the door. He
never come out no more. He died in there, if he didn't go in dressed and
anointed to go in.
We examined HEBREWS 10:19 where Paul said, ¶ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, 20 By
a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil,
that is to say, his flesh; 21 And
[having] an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with
pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the
profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that
promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to
good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much
the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or
three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot
the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of
grace? 30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me,
I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
We looked at this Parrhesia boldness which is to come at the
breaking of the seals.
That's the right kind of noise, having a freedom in speaking the
word, unreservedness of speech. That's Malachi
3:16 But not just talking the Word, but
getting into the Word until the Word gets into you.
Mal 3:16 Then they that feared the
LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it], and a book of remembrance was
written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his
name. 17 And they shall be mine,
saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare
them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall ye return,
and discern between the righteous and
the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
TOKEN THE 63-0901M
35-3 Notice, they were not
just yet come together to talk about the message. They come together to apply
the blood, to apply the token. That's what you must do. it's time that we laid
aside all the foolishness of the world, time we laid aside everything else.
We've seen enough now, that we're positive, sure, and the Token must be
applied. Without it, you're going to perish; you must perish. That is the only
thing. Oh, don't come together, say, "I believe it." Get beneath it.
Get into it. How to do it? By one Spirit we're baptized into the Body of Jesus
Christ. Everybody believe with all your heart. See? He was not responsible for
any out from beneath it. But you believe. Get beneath it. Israel didn't come together to say,
"Let's all go over to Goshen today. We'll drive up to Goshen. You get on
your camel, and we'll take the ox cart, and we'll take the Joneses over here,
and so forth, and the Goldbergs, and we'll all go up to Goshen. And you know what?
Moses is going to speak today." That wasn't it. No, sir, brother. It's to
get beneath that blood. Yes, indeed. Not
to talk about it, get into it. One of them say, "You know, Mr.
Goldberg, I actually know that's the truth. Yes, brother, I believe it is the
truth. I know that it is the truth."
ROMANS 12:1 ¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice…. A
living sacrifice, one that is alive…
This morning I would like to
again examine this living sacrifice. For only those who have been made alive by
the resurrection power of God can make this sacrifice.
CORINTHIANS 15:21 For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the
resurrection of the dead. 22 For as
in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall
all be made alive. And what does it mean to be made alive? What is this living
sacrifice? This is the Greek word, ZAO and it means zao {dzah'-o}
-- live -- be alive (9)
1) to live, to breathe, be
among the living (not lifeless, not dead)
2) to enjoy real life --to be active, blessed in the manner of the
living and acting;
3) living water, having vital power in itself and exerting
the same upon the soul
4) to be in full vigour; to be
fresh, strong, efficient, to be active, powerful, efficacious (effective)
And what produces this life?
Paul said, EPHESIANS 2:1 ¶ And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and
sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience: 3 Among whom also we
all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others. 4 ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great
love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when
we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved;) 6 And hath raised [us] up
together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might
shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through
Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should
boast. 10 For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.
Worketh = energeo, which means to energize.
EPHESIANS 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, energeo
{en-erg-eh'-o} to display one's
activity, -- effectually work (1) --
effectual fervent (1) -- work
effectually in (1)
ROMANS 7:5 For when we were in the
flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
I CORINTHIANS 12:6 And there are diversities of
operations, but it is the same God which worketh
all in all.
GALATIANS 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither
circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
EPHESIANS 1:11 In whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of
his own will:
EPHESIANS 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and
set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places],
PHILIPPIANS 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good
pleasure.
I THESSALONIANS 2:13 ¶ For this cause also thank we God without
ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye
received [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God,
which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
II THESSALONIANS 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity
doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of
the way.
JAMES 5:16 Confess [your] faults one to
another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
In COLOSSIANS 3:1 ¶ If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is
hid with Christ in God. 4 When
Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in
glory. 5 ¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and
covetousness, which is idolatry: 6
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of
disobedience: 7 In the which ye also
walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8
¶ But now ye also put off all
these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that
ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created him:
Once you have been made alive,
you must do certain things to keep yourself
alive and full of energy.
MATTHEW 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.
JOHN 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have
asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast
nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that
living water? 12 Art thou greater
than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and
his children, and his cattle? 13
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh
of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I
shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life.
JOHN 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath
everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from
death unto life. 25
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to
have life in himself;
MATTHEW 22:31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead,
have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the
living.
JOHN 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting
life. 48 I am that bread of life. 49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from
heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living
bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live
for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world. 52 The Jews
therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh
to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I
will raise him up at the last day 55
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that
eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did
eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
JOHN 7:37 ¶ In the last day, that
great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let
him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
JOHN 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the
resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me
shall never die. Believest thou this?
JOHN 14:19 Yet a
little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye
shall live also.
ACTS 17:28 For in him we live, and
move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we
are also his offspring. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of
God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or
stone, graven by art and man's device.
36 I want you to notice
here of the prophet, apostle, rather, Paul, who--who, how he made mention of
this, how, "You has He quickened, who were once dead. You hath He
quickened, who were once dead, dead in sin and trespasses, walking after the
things of the world, the desire of the flesh, and fulfilling the desire of the
mind. Has..." What caused this change? you see? And what caused it from
one time being dead, to quicken? "Quicken" means "made
alive." There was a change from death unto Life. There's no other--there's
no other thing that could happen to any person, so great, as to change him from
death to Life. A man, if he was dying, physically, and could be healed
physically, that would be a great thing, but nothing so great as when he is
spiritually dead and God has quickened him to Life.
38 You once in times
past, dead... You were dead. Even many here tonight, one time can look back and
know that you were dead. But now why aren't you dead tonight as you were then?
You deserve to be that way, because you was a sinner, but God Who is rich in
mercy. That's the--that's the thing: God Who was rich. All these things that we
were, but God. That made the change right there: God Who is rich in mercy.
Oh, I'm so glad for that, that
He being rich in mercy. If He was just rich in money, if He was just rich in
materials, which He is, but yet the greatest thing is being rich in mercy. Oh,
what a great word that is, how that we were once dead.
40 And we was speaking
the other night on how the seed must die. And everything around that germ of
life must not only die, but rot. If it doesn't rot, it cannot live. And rot is
"completely done away with; it's finished." And until we get to the
place that our own ideas and our own thinking is completely gone and it's
rotted away from us, then the germ of life can begin to live. Now, now, we
might, I might inject just a little bit of doctrine here that I don't... If you
don't believe it, all right. That's just okay. I do believe it. I believe
that--that a man, when he's born in this world, that when you're a little baby,
born into the world, you could not have been here without being the
foreknowledge of God, because He is infinite and He knows all things. And when
that little baby is born into the world, there's something in that baby. If
he's ever going to have Life, there's a little something in there, in that child
then, that he comes to sooner or later. That little seed is in him. Now, if
you'll take... The Scriptures plainly declare that.
42 Now, if you've got
Eternal Life tonight, if we have Eternal Life, then we always were, because
there's only one form of Eternal Life. We always were. And the reason we were,
because we are a part of God. And God is the only thing that's eternal. And
like Melchisedec received tithes from Abraham, and it was 'lotted to his
great-grandson, Levi, who was yet in the loins of Abraham; paid tithes, for he
was yet in the loins of Abraham when he met Melchisedec. I want to speak on
that over at the other place, one morning: Who Is This Melchisedec? Now, notice
that. Way back, God knew this boy coming down. He knowed all things.
Now, we are a part of God. You
always was. You don't remember it, because you were only an attribute in God.
You were only in His thinking. Your very name, if it ever was on the Book of
Life, it was put there before the foundation of the world. He knew what you
were.
45 I'm only saying
this, not to mix up doctrine, but to straighten it out, that we might get away
from this fear and scare: you don't know who you are. You are not going to be,
but now you are the sons of God. See, you always were the sons of God. See? For
when God had you in His thinking at the beginning, you have to be, some part of
you, your Life that's in you now, had to be with God before there... Well, when
you--before you even become material here on earth, before there was anything,
but God, you were one of His attributes. He knowed what your name would be. He
knowed the color of hair you'd have. He knowed all about you. The only thing
happened is when you, being a sinner...
47 Many of you can--can fellowship with me on this thought. When
you was a little boy, or a little girl, you'd walk around and there would be
certain things that would just, where it wouldn't bother the other kids, it
seemed like there was something in you that cried out. There was God somewhere,
yet you were a sinner. You remember that? Certainly. Now, what was that? That
was that little form of Life in you then.
And then after while, you
heard the Gospel. Maybe you went to church; you picked out this and that, and
went from denomination to denomination. But one day, you being part of God, you
had to be part of the Word. And when you heard the Word, you know where you
come from, you knowed what was the Truth. You were always, the seed was in you
always. The Word seen the Word that was in you, that was before the foundation
of the world, saw the Word and you come to It.
49 Like my little eagle
story, of how the little eagle was hatched out under a hen. And the little
fellow walked with the chickens, he, the hen clucked, and he didn't understand
her clucking. And--and the little chickens, their diet they had in the
barnyard, he--he didn't understand that, how that they did that. But there was
something in him, seemed to be different from what that chicken was, because at
the beginning he was a eagle. That's right. One day his mama come hunting him,
and, when he heard that scream of the eagle, it was different from the cluck of
the hen. And that's the way it is with every born again believer. You can hear
all the theology you want to and all the manmade discrepancy; but when that
Word flashes out there, then there's something takes ahold, you come to It.
"You who were once dead in sin; that life has He quickened." There
has to be a Life there to quicken to, first. God by His foreknowledge knowed
all things. And we were predestinated to be sons and daughters of God. "Ye
who were once dead in sin and trespasses, wherein we all had our times past,
but hath He quickened."
51 Look at Paul, when
Paul was a great theologian. But when he come face to face with that Word,
Jesus, it quickened. He come to Life right quick, because he was ordained to be
that. The... He was part of the Word; and when the Word saw the Word, it was
his nature. All the clucking of the hens in the orthodox churches, didn't have
no effect upon him; he had saw the Word. It was part of him. He was an eagle.
He wasn't a chicken; he was just in the barnyard with them. But he was a eagle
to begin with.
52 I heard a similar
little story, I hope it don't sound sacrilegious, about a little duck being
born under a hen one time. He couldn't understand. A funny-looking little fellow,
odd guy, and he couldn't understand the dust and everything. They were playing
in the barnyard. But one day the old hen led the little brood out behind the
barn, and he got a smell of water. Why, he took out towards that water as hard
as he could go. Why? He had never been on a pond before. He'd never been in the
water. But he was a duck to begin with. Only thing he had to do was come to
himself. That's the same thing the believer is. There's something in him, that,
when he meets God face to face, he comes to himself. That seed is in him, and
it's quickened. My, that's right, and he flies away from the things of the
world. They become dead to him. My, I remember, we all had our life in the past
in those things of the world. But once we got ahold of that real Thing,
something that quickened us, a little seed that come to Life, then all the
things of the world rotted right there. We had no more desire of it.
54 "He that's
borned of God, doth not commit sin. The worshipper once purged has no more
conscience of sin, no more desire to sin." The sin question's over. You become
a part of God in Christ. Christ died to redeem you. Now, just think of all that
we would've been if it hadn't been for God. But God in His rich mercy, how He
has redeemed us tonight. Where would we been tonight if it hadn't been for
God's rich mercy upon us? Once the world was so sinful, that man had caused
corruption to come upon the earth until it even grieved God that He ever made
man. The whole head was a putrefied sore, the whole body, and God even grieved
that He ever made a man. So He said, "I will destroy men who I've
created." He will destroy them because he has nothing but just a bunch of
corruption. And the whole human race would've been wiped out at that time, but
God rich in mercy would not let the innocent perish with the guilty. And He
went away and made a provided way for the ones that wanted to come in, that
wanted to do what was right. He made a way of mercy for those who desired
mercy, and He prepared an ark. In other words, He put some wings on His eagles,
that they could fly above the judgment, and not drown with the chickens. But
He--He made a way of an escape in the days of Noah. This caused Him to do that,
to provide it, because He was rich in mercy.
58 But after He has
provided a way for people and then they refuse it... Now, the reason they
refuse it is because there's nothing in there to receive it. There's nothing to
receive it. My mother used to say, "You cannot get blood from a turnip,
because there's no blood in a turnip." So if there is no form of Life in
there to receive It, then It cannot be received.
That's the reason the
Pharisees could look right in the face of Jesus and call Him Beelzebub, because
there was nothing in them to receive Him. "But all the Father has given
Me," He said, "will come to Me." There's--there's some way it's
going to be presented.
60 You can talk to
people sometime on the streets, talk to them about the Lord; they laugh right
in your face. Well, we're supposed to do it anyhow. But listen, "There's
no man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." God has to do the
drawing. There has to be a Life. "And all that He has given Me, will come
to Me."
ROMANS 1:16 ¶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
ROMANS 6:8 Now if we be dead with
Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto
sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto
God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
the law, but under grace. 15 What
then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God
forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom
ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the
servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which
was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became
the servants of righteousness.
ROMANS 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (MAKER ALIVE) your
(MORTAL) bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we
are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh. 13 For if ye
live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the
deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs
of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that
we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
II COR 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in
our hearts, known and read of all men
3 [Forasmuch as ye are]
manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with
ink, but with the Spirit of the living
God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to
God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
II COR 5:14 For the love of Christ
constraineth us;( it causes us to do things we
would not do by our own nature), because we thus judge, that if one died for
all, then were all dead: 15 And [that] he died for all, that they
which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died
for them, and rose again.
GAL 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it
is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not
of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
GAL 5:24 And they that are Christ's
have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be
desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
PHIL 1 :21 ¶ For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die
[is] gain.
I THESS 4:15 For this we say unto you by
the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of
the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive [and]
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
I THESS 5:9 For God hath not appointed us
to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together
with him. 11 ¶ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and
edify one another, even as also ye do.
II TIM 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse
and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them];
TITUS 2:9 [Exhort] servants to be
obedient unto their own masters, [and] to please [them] well in all [things];
not answering again; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good
fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all
things. 11¶ For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all
men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious
appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
HEBREWS 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not
enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest
there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living
God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of
you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
HEBREWS 4:12 For the word of God [is]
quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not
manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of
him with whom we have to do. 14
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points
tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
HEBREWS 7:24 But this [man], because he
continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is
able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he
ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high
priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the
people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which
have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the
Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
HEBREWS 9:14 How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 ¶
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by
means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the
first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance.
HEBREWS 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who
draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
HEBREWS 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected
[us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection
unto the Father of spirits, and live?
I PETER 1:3 ¶ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth
not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to
be revealed in the last time.
I PETER 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the
truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye]
love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
I PETER 2:1 ¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye
may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have
tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. 4
¶ To whom coming, [as unto] a
living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are
built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay
in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him
shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you
therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient,
the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the
corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient:
whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But ye [are] a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into
his marvellous light:
I JOHN 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our
sins.
REVELATION 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at
his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not;
I am the first and the last: 18 I
[am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen;
and have the keys of hell and of death.
REVELATION 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
REVELATION 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of
Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither
his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their
hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.