How Are You Living?

The final word for our focus and vision for 2020  •  Sermon  •  Submitted
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God has called us to live. To live inspite of what is going on around us. He has called us to live in the light of His glory and promise

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Wait! -- Are You Willing to Wait?
Wait! -- Are You Willing to Wait?
-- I will stand at my post, and station myself on the rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what He will answer concerning my complaint.
++Write! -- What Are You Called to Write?
++Write! -- What Are You Called to Write?
-- Then Yahweh answered me and said, “Write the vision and make it plain on the tablet so that it might be read quickly.
++Wait! -- If It Tarries, Will You Wait?
++Wait! -- If It Tarries, Will You Wait?
-- For there is yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the and, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay.
++Look! -- What Are You Looking For?
++Look! -- What Are You Looking For?
-- Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright.
(ḥāyâ) live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live forever. Also be quickened, revive from sickness, discouragement, or even death.
Focus:
Live!
-- 4 Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.
This morning we come to the last of our words that are associated with our vision and focus for the year cooperatively and individually. The word live.
As we get to this final word it has been interesting to me that this word would be so prevalent to what is happening in our world today.
Let’s take a quick view:
Our government is in its on turmoil
The cornavirus
The natural disasters that are happening and various other things maybe even the things in your own life.
However what is difficult in every situation is that people stop living and they become concerned about what is happening and not trusting in the one who literally holds the world in His hand
Galatians 2:11–21 LEB
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was condemned. For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of those who were of the circumcision, and the rest of the Jews also joined in this hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?” We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles, but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified. But if while seeking to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, then is Christ an agent of sin? May it never be! For if I build up again these things which I destroyed, I show myself to be a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you[a] free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life[d] because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of[e] his Spirit who lives in you.
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,[g] Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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