Peace to my brothers and sisters in God’s family! Amen
Let’s open our Bible to 1 Corinthians 2 Chapter 7 What we speak of is the hidden wisdom of God, which God predestined before the ages for our glory.
Today we study, fellowship, and share "Reserve" No. 3 Speak and offer a prayer: Dear Abba Heavenly Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you that the Holy Spirit is always with us! Amen. Thank the Lord for sending workers to give us the wisdom of the mystery of God that was hidden in the past, the word that God predestined for us to glory before the ages, through the word of truth written in their hands and “spoken” →
Revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. Amen! Ask the Lord Jesus to continue to illuminate our spiritual eyes and open our minds to understand the Bible so that we can see and hear spiritual truths → Understand that God allows us to know the mystery of His will according to His own good purpose → God has predestined us to be glorified before all eternity!
The above prayers, supplications, intercessions, thanks, and blessings! I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen
[1] Be united with Him in the likeness of death, and you will also be united with Him in the likeness of His resurrection
Romans 6:5 If we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection;
(1) If we are united to him in the likeness of his death
ask: How to be united with Christ in the likeness of His death?
answer: “Baptized into His death” → Do you not know that those of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Reference--Romans Chapter 6 Verse 3
ask: What is the purpose of baptism?
answer: "Putting on Christ" causes us to walk in newness of life → Therefore, you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Reference - Galatians 3:26-27 → Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that we might walk in newness of life, just as Christ was born from the dead through the glory of the Father Same as resurrection. Romans 3:4
(2) Be united with Him in the likeness of His resurrection
ask: How are they united in the likeness of Christ's resurrection?
answer: "Eat and drink the Lord's Supper" → Jesus said: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood Man has eternal life, and in the last day I will call He is alive. My flesh is food, and my blood is drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I abide in him. Reference - John 6 53-56. Verses and 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
【2】Take up your cross and follow Jesus
Mark 8:34-35 Then he called the crowd and his disciples to them and said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life (or Translation: soul; the same below) will lose his life; but whoever loses his life for me and the gospel will save it.
(1) Whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
ask: What is the “purpose” of taking up one’s cross and following Jesus?
answer: The "purpose" is to lose the "old" life; to save the "new" life → He who cherishes his life will lose it; whoever hates his "old" life in this world must keep it "from God" "The new man" lives to eternal life. Reference--John 12:25
(2) Put on the new man and experience putting off the old man
ask: Put on the new self; experience putting off the " Purpose "What is it?"
answer: " Purpose "that is" Newcomer "Gradually renew and grow;" old man "Walking away, putting off deterioration → the new man is being renewed in knowledge, into the image of his Creator. Reference - Colossians 3:10 → Put off the old man in the way you once behaved, this old man People gradually become bad because of the deception of selfish desires; refer to - Ephesians 4:22
ask: Haven’t we “already” put off the old man? Why do you still have to put off the old man? → Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old man and its practices.
answer: We believe in being crucified, dead, buried and resurrected with Christ→" Faith has put off the old man ", our old people are still there and can still be seen → Just take it off and “experience taking it off” →The treasure placed in the earthen vessel will be revealed, and the "new man" will be revealed. It will be gradually renewed and grown by the Holy Spirit to be full of the stature of Christ; the "old man" will gradually fade away, become corrupted (corruption), return to dust, and return to vanity→ So , we are not discouraged. Although the "old man" is perishing outwardly, the "new man in Christ" is being renewed day by day inwardly. Our momentary and light sufferings will work for us an eternal weight of glory beyond compare. Amen! So, do you understand clearly? Reference--2 Corinthians 4 verses 16-17
【3】Preach the gospel of the kingdom of heaven on your back
(1) If we suffer with him, and will be glorified with him
Romans 8:17 And if they are children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If we suffer with Him, we will also be glorified with Him.
Philippians 1:29 For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for him.
(2) The will to suffer
1 Peter Chapter 4:1-2 Since Christ suffered in the flesh, You should also use this kind of ambition as a weapon , because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. With such a heart, from now on you can live the rest of your time in this world not according to human desires but only according to God's will.
1 Peter Chapter 5:10 After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself perfect, strengthen, and strengthen you.
(3) God predestined us to be glorified
We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. for whom he foreknew Determined beforehand to be imitated by his Son~ " Take up your cross, follow Jesus, and preach the gospel of the kingdom of heaven ” and made his son the firstborn among many brothers. predetermined and those who were below called them; and those whom he called he also justified; Those whom he justified he also glorified . Reference--Romans 8:28-30
This grace is given to us abundantly by God with all wisdom and understanding; it is all according to his own good will , that we may know the mystery of his will, in order that in the fullness of time all things in heaven and on earth may be united in Christ. In him we also have an inheritance, who works out all things according to the will of his own will, ordained according to his will . Reference-Ephesians 1:8-11→ What we are talking about is what was hidden in the past , the mysterious wisdom of God, which God predestined for our glory before eternity. . Amen! Reference - 1 Corinthians 2:7
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2021.05.09
