That's John over the years you have referred to the acronym APTAT, APTAT in your books

and sermons and your classes has been with you for a long time and it seems to be central

to your understanding of how the Christian life should be lived each day and I know a

lot of our listeners have probably never heard you explain APTAT and why it's so important.

So today introduce it to us and explain the big issue that it addresses for you.

Okay, here's the big issue. How do you go about living the Christian life in such a way

that you are actually doing the living, doing the acting, doing the willing and yet

Christ or the Holy Spirit is decisively doing the living and doing the acting and doing the

willing in and through your acting and willing and doing. That's the key issue it seems to me

of the Christian life. That's the way Paul says he lived and he means for us to live that way.

He says, 1 Corinthians 1510, by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace toward me was

not in vain on the contrary I worked harder than any of them though it was not I but the grace

of God that was with me. Now my question is and I think everyone listening to me right now should

ask how do I do that? How do I work hard and yet be able to say when I'm done God's grace

was the worker in and through me. Now that's what aptat APTAT an acronym is intended to answer

or to put it another way how do you obey Philippians 212? Work out your salvation with fear and

trembling. 4 God is the one at work in you. What are the strategies that we take to make sure

we can say that with integrity about our Christian life or to put it another way? How do you serve

others in a strength that isn't your own? 1 Peter 4 11, whoever serves let him serve as by the

strength that God supplies. How do you do that? Or Romans 8 13, by the spirit put to death the deeds

of the body. So how do you put to death the deeds of the body? Yes, you put to death the deeds

of the body the sinful deeds and you do it by the spirit. Now what does that mean? How do you

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