Devotion to God

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Devotion to Gods Word

• Psalm 1444 (NIV)4 Man is like a breath
• his days are like a fleeting shadow.

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Becoming More Like JesusMark 834-91

• Series Keys to Christ-like Transformation

Sunday, September 5, 2004 Larry Cantrell
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Becoming More Like Jesus

• What do we do with a Lord that demands absolute
  allegiance?
• Full conversion
• or
• Seek to justify a grounded cross

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Becoming More Like Jesus

• The cross represents death.
• How do we live with the cross?
• We must empty ourselves (Philippians 27)
• We must lift our personal cross (Mark 827-33)
• Our vision must be Gods Glory above the glory of
  man (Mark 832-33)

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Becoming More Like Jesus
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Becoming More Like Jesus

• Who purchased your shoes?
• Galatians 220 (NIV)
• 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no
  longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I
  live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of
  God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
• Come out of your Shoes (deny
  personal lordship)
• Decide to Live by Faith
  (give lordship to Jesus)
• Enjoy the Journey (experience the power and
  sacrificial love of Jesus)

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Lords Invitation

• 2 Corinthians 1210 (NIV)10 That is why, for
  Christs sake, I delight in weaknesses, in
  insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
  difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am
  strong.