A Life Message
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Everybody has a life message
Everybody has a life message
It is a Message
++About you
++In You
++For you
Paul’s Life Message
Paul’s Life Message
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
A Life Message
++Declares purpose
++Reveals Identity
++Releases Hope
The Message of the Cross
The Message of the Cross
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
One message two responses
One message two responses
What shapes our response to the Cross?
What shapes our response to the Cross?
The Responses
++Of the perishing
++Of the one who are being saved
The Gospel is the Good News
The Gospel is the Good News
It tells us
++We are not stuck
++There is hope
25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
The Power of a Testimony
The Power of a Testimony
The word Testimony (OT)
The word Testimony (OT)
An Action
++Witness
++To provide evidence
++To give an answer
++To reply
An Item
++Law
++Legal provision
You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.
And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
An Item
Law
Legal provision
++Divine revelation from God
The Ark (Salvation)
The Ark of God (God ‘s Power)
The Ark of the Covenant (God’s Agreement with man)
The Ark of Testimony (God’s message in man’s life)
The word testimony (NT)
The word testimony (NT)
The word of a Witness
First hand knowledge
A testimony declares
++The Presence of God
++The Provision of God
++The Power of God
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.