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Worth the Cost! pt. 2
Last week we saw clearly the ultimate act of Love - Jesus laying down His life for us!
We saw clearly that we were well worth the cost to Him!!
That is awesome news!
This week, I want to encourage you once more by turning the tables, helping us see that Jesus is worth the cost to us!
Listen, a relationship is a two-way street!
He laid down His life for us, to buy us back, to bring us into fellowship with Him, to bring us into a relationship!
therefore What should our reasonable response be in light of that?!
To lay down our lives in service of Him!
I want to take a moment and meld together some passages of scripture to help drive home this point more clearly, to help us see and understand this amazing revelation:
Isaiah 53: 3-6 (KJV) reads as follows, talking about Jesus
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
Again speaking about Jesus this is Romans 5:6-8 (KJV)
“For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
One more time, talking about Jesus, Philippians 2:5-8 (KJV) reads,
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
If I could wrap all of these verses into one sentence to help you see even more clearly it would look something like this:
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!
He laid down His life for you and for me!
Why?
We are worth the cost!!
In light of that awesome news, what should our response be to Him?
Romans 12:1 reads as follows:
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Philippians 1:21 KJV
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 KJV
“For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
1 Corinthians 2:2 KJV
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:13-14 KJV
Why do I spend my life chasing after Him? Giving Him praise?
Cause He chased me down, Bought me back, from death, Hell, & the grave!
He is worth the cost!
Until next time, remember, what you make happen for others, God will make happen for you!
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By Joshua Scott ZeitzLast week we saw clearly the ultimate act of Love - Jesus laying down His life for us!
We saw clearly that we were well worth the cost to Him!!
That is awesome news!
This week, I want to encourage you once more by turning the tables, helping us see that Jesus is worth the cost to us!
Listen, a relationship is a two-way street!
He laid down His life for us, to buy us back, to bring us into fellowship with Him, to bring us into a relationship!
therefore What should our reasonable response be in light of that?!
To lay down our lives in service of Him!
I want to take a moment and meld together some passages of scripture to help drive home this point more clearly, to help us see and understand this amazing revelation:
Isaiah 53: 3-6 (KJV) reads as follows, talking about Jesus
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
Again speaking about Jesus this is Romans 5:6-8 (KJV)
“For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
One more time, talking about Jesus, Philippians 2:5-8 (KJV) reads,
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
If I could wrap all of these verses into one sentence to help you see even more clearly it would look something like this:
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!
He laid down His life for you and for me!
Why?
We are worth the cost!!
In light of that awesome news, what should our response be to Him?
Romans 12:1 reads as follows:
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Philippians 1:21 KJV
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 KJV
“For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
1 Corinthians 2:2 KJV
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:13-14 KJV
Why do I spend my life chasing after Him? Giving Him praise?
Cause He chased me down, Bought me back, from death, Hell, & the grave!
He is worth the cost!
Until next time, remember, what you make happen for others, God will make happen for you!