You being saved is your gift to God!
2 Corinthians 5:17
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, [a]he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Kainos! Wala ng bakas ng dati!
Worship and be a witness: calling
TRUTH:
1. You can not be a follower of Jesus and stay NORMAL.
The problem of normal people:
- attracted to lesser things (pansamantala)
- addicted to lesser things
- attached to the lesser things
- adapted to the lesser things
Galatians 5:17
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
17 For the flesh [a]sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you [b]please.
I am saved and I am a child of God, I am complete.
I have everything I need to live for the Lord and to live a fully satisfied and abundant life...
The old, boring, gutless purposeless, normal you is gone.
You are now a new person, fueled by the power of Christ in you.
You are not the same person you used to be.
You are now a radical and willing to do whatever it takes to live for Jesus and follow him, to love God and love people.
You can't follow Jesus and still try to live a normal life.
Changes should be noticed.
2. You can't love with the same normal love you loved people before you found Jesus.
3. You cannot give the same way you used to give.
4. You cannot serve the same way you used to.
People who fillow Christ are not normal!
I am saved and I am a child of God, I am complete.
I have everything I need to live for the Lord and to live a fully satisfied and abundant life...
The old, boring, gutless purposeless, normal you is gone.
You are now a new person, fueled by the power of Christ in you.
You are not the same person you used to be.
You are now a radical and willing to do whatever it takes to live for Jesus and follow him, to love God and love people.
You can't follow Jesus and still try to live a normal life.
Changes should be noticed.
They were normal: naging kainos.
Simon to Cephas (Peter)
Levi to Matthew
Saul to Paul
2. You can't love with the same normal love you loved people before you found Jesus.
3. You cannot give the same way you used to give.
4. You cannot serve the same way you used to.
Useless to usefull
Worthless to valuables
Ordinary to extraordinary
People who fillow Christ are not normal!
1 Peter 2:9
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Ephesians 3:20
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
Normal people are average people who do average work and produce average results. No one is inspired by average people.
TO PURSUE YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH YOU MUST LEVEL UP!
Level up in your perspective - being a follower of Jesus gives you significance!
1 Corinthians 15:10
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
TO PURSUE GROWTH YOU MUST:
Level up in your preoccupation - God has called you to do what is significant
TO PURSUE GROWTH YOU MUST:
Level up in your preoccupation - God has called you to do what is significant
Ecclesiastes 1:2-3
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
2 “[a]Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“[b]Vanity of vanities! All is [c]vanity.”
3 What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?
TO PURSUE YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH YOU MUST LEVEL UP!
Level up in your purpose - God has called you to give glory to Him!
God has called you to worship Him, and be a witness to Him.
Philippians 3:10
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and [a]the fellowship of His sufferings, beingconformed to His death;
Normal people don't make incredible leaders
Normal people don't take risks
Normal people don't face fears
Normal people die with a lot of regrets
If you want to level up there are....
Choices to make
Changes to make
Calls to take
Challenges to face
Battles to win
Burdens to carry
So! It's about time the doers of the almighty level up and stop being normal for God!
Be Blessed!
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