A Life of Sacrifice
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Our Scripture for today comes from Luke 9:23, and today's worship is Refiner by Maverick City Music.
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| 0:00.0 | On the third day of our series on pursuing simple Christianity, we're looking at what it means to live a life of sacrifice to God. |
| 0:13.0 | May we discover what it means for our hearts, minds, and will to be fully surrendered to Jesus. |
| 0:19.4 | And in return, may we find the abundant joy he has promised. |
| 0:23.7 | He's trustworthy and true, and we will find the life God planned for us when we surrender all to him. |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our scripture today comes from Luke 923. |
| 0:51.9 | In it, Jesus says, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up |
| 0:57.9 | his cross daily and follow me. Living for our own gain, add stress, pressure, and chaos to life, |
| 1:09.5 | successfully robbing us of all the transcendent peace available through |
| 1:14.1 | sacrificial living. We were never created to be our own provider or sustainer. We were never |
| 1:21.5 | meant to develop our own source of joy and purpose. And the only place we will find lasting peace is in complete |
| 1:29.9 | surrender to God's intention for us, a life of total sacrifice. Jesus was our perfect model. He did |
| 1:39.8 | everything according to the perfect and pleasing will of the Father. And Jesus said in Luke 9, 23 through 25, |
| 1:48.0 | If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. |
| 1:55.0 | For whoever would save his life would lose it. |
| 1:58.0 | But whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it |
| 2:02.7 | profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? Jesus makes it clear |
| 2:10.2 | that sacrifice is the gateway to finding the life that God intends for us. It's the pathway |
| 2:16.7 | that leads to the perfect will of our Heavenly |
| 2:19.7 | Father. If you're like me, living life sacrificially initially sounds terrible and unattainable. |
| 2:28.0 | It feels impossible based on past experiences and present selfish desires. But we need to take time to know the God |
| 2:36.8 | whom we are sacrificing our lives to. We need to renew our mind to the perfect love of Jesus |
| 2:43.0 | who would lay down his own life for us before ever asking us to follow in his footsteps. |
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