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Lesson 3: If My Life Was A Letter…
June 13 & 14, 2020
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. New Living Translation
2 Corinthians 3:2 The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you. New Living Translation
2 Corinthians 3:3 Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts. New Living Translation
The Bible in us CHANGES US
1 Thessalonians 4:2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; New International Version
We Are Sanctified So We Can Be Sanctified
1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours: New International Version
1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men, New International Version
1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. New International Version
1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. New International Version
A Sanctified Life is a Bible Filled Life
John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. New International Version
Proverbs 4:20 My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; New International Version
Proverbs 4:22 for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. New International Version
Psalm 1:1 How well God must like you—you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon, you don’t slink along Dead-End Road, you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College. The Message
Psalm 1:2 Instead you thrill to GOD’S Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. 3 You’re a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, never dropping a leaf, always in blossom. The Message
A Sanctified Life Relies On God’s Life
Philippians 1:4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, New International Version
Philippians 1:6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. New International Version
Philippians 2:13 For God is at work within you, helping you want to obey him, and then helping you do what he wants. Living Bible
Confession Scriptures:
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. New International Version
2 Corinthians 5:17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! New Living Translation
2 Corinthians 5:21 He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God. Weymouth New Testament
Colossians 1:22 Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault. New Living Translation
Ephesians 4:24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy. New Living Translation
Romans 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. New International Version
Ephesians 5:3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. New International Version
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. New King James Version
1 Peter 5:7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. New Living Translation
Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole." 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. New International Version
2 Timothy 4:18 Yes, and the Lord will deliver me from every evil attack and will bring me safely into his heavenly Kingdom. All glory to God forever and ever! Amen. New Living Translation
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. English Standard Version