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God is calling you to be his ambassador to confront the world with the glory of Christ. This will require both the right attitude and focus. Jesus humbled himself before he was exalted. Believers who serve as Jesus did in humility also look forward to exaltation as Jesus was exalted. This, however, is not a casual opportunity that can be easily declined. Christ will return as Lord to judge the living and the dead. Is he your Lord or your Judge-

The danger exists that you can become bewitched or deceived through mental laziness. This is what Paul accused the Galatians of. They were not thinking properly. Have you been taken in by error through your laziness- Your solution is exactly the same as Paul's solution for the Galatians. get back to the cross. Discover it's reality. Depend on the Spirit of God to help yousee the cross of Christ as beautiful. Remember how you experienced this in the beginning. This will require you to make a meal of the word of God.

The experience of nakedness can be far more than the state of being unclothed. It involves shame and a sense of failure at a deeply personal level. Man lost so much in Eden when he disgraced himself before God. He also gained a whole world of misery. The glorious gospel is that God is giving everything back and far more through Jesus nakedness and shame for his people.

Are you living each day by faith in what Jesus has done- Paul tells us this is the reality for the true believer. To live by faith each day because of what Christ has done, we need to understand how dead we are to the law and sin, how united we are to Jesus Christ and how alive we are. We have a new nature with new motives....but the old person has to die in order for us to live...How are you living out the realities of your justification-

God has been overwhelmingly merciful to you. This is the only and most powerful motivation to serving him joyfully with a renewed mind rather than being trapped in a morbid cycle of godless and self-destructive living.

How is your walk with God now- Is it joyful- Is it real- Is it marked by confession and forgiveness- The confessing life is a happy life. the confessing life is also an open and transparent life. It is a motivated and confident life. It is a life in which obedience toward God is easier.

The first of the last words is this- You must be born again- But in view of all of the fake views on salvation, you must understand salvation in an accurate way. Nicodemus had a wrong idea of salvation and was gently and effectively counselling by Jesus. Salvation is not moral reform. It is a matter of being born again. Such a dramatic change in a person becomes consistently obvious in their behaviour and attitudes. Being born again is also no something you can do to yourself. You need god to perform this life-giving miracle for you. The best thing to do, if you realise you are not born again, is to ask him for this new life.

God will make you holy. He does part of the work at regeneration. He does part of it progressively throughout your Christian life in conjunction with Christian effort. He completes the work in the moment of glorification.