Chapter 4 (Title) Don't Make Jesus Your Personal Lord & Savior
- none of us can decide to make Jesus Lord, He is Lord regardless
- real questions is whether you will submit to His lordship, which is the very essence of conversion
- Hell is real! "there is a never ending wrath awaiting lost sinners before a holy God, He has spoken that clearly
- we are encouraged by the hope of heaven, and compelled by the horror of hell
- we must tell them (lost sinners) about Christ
- Jesus died so that repentance and forgiveness would be preached in his name to all the nations
- we make disciples because it has become our soul's supreme desire
Chapter 5 Children of God
- 1 John 3:1
- true intellectual knowledge of God naturally and necessarily involves deep emotional desire for God
- Jesus said, "I am the bread of life, he is the provision of God to satisfy our souls
- the way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires
- passionate pursuit of true, lasting satisfaction always leads to Christ
- Disciples of Jesus crave communion with God
- making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of our delight in being disciples of Jesus
- Heart of following Jesus = enjoying God the father through Christ the Son
Chapter 6 God's Will for your Life
- As Jesus transforms the thoughts & desires of our lives, He changes our reason for living
- more important then looking/searching for God's will, its simply knowing and trusting God
- outside commands of Christ in scripture, we have no specific rules, regulations of how radical commands of Christ apply to our lives today, instead we have a relationship with Jesus
- the goal of the disciple is not to answer "What is God's will for my life?" but to walk in God's will, moment-by-moment, day-by-day basis
- He reveals His will for us in his Word (Bible) God's desire for us to know his will, is greater than our desire to find it
- God's will is to be worshiped, & he wills for all people to hear, receive, embrace, & respond to the gospel
- God's will is not intended to be found, but to be followed
- we ask for God to align our lives with the will He has already revealed
- we know God's will through the Holy Spirit in us
- to witness is to Speak
- the Spirit lives in us for the explicit purpose of spreading the gospel through us
- when you share the gospel with others, your carrying out His will
- we discover delight not in searching for God's will, but experiencing it
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