Give Online: https://pushpay.com/pay/gatecitychristian Website: https://www.gatecitychristian.com/ Decision Card: https://gatecity.churchcenter.com/people/forms/371658 DIE TO SELF/ALIVE IN CHRIST Now What 10/22/2023 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 ESV • let him deny himself (Luke 9:23) • It is no longer I who live (Galatians 2:20) • any one of you who does not renounce all that he has (Luke 14:33) • Can we who died to sin live in it (Romans 6:2) • I die every day (1 Corinthians 15:31) • For to me to live is Christ (Philippians 1:21) • Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me (Luke 14:27) • whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life (John 12:25) • present your bodies as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1) • For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3) • who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires (Galatians 5:24) • let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me (Luke 9:23) • And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death (Rev. 12:11) • He must become greater and greater and I must become less and less (John 3:30) • Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God (James 4:4) DIE to Self Death is Definitive Die/Crucify/Renounce All signal an continually process with daily finality Desires, Passions, Interests, Selfish wants, Control Death is Daily Death is a Choice Own your choice, make it Death is Essential Something has to DIE? Either that is your eternal soul or your worldly self - you choose In order to DIE ask yourself . . . What stands in the way of Christ living in and through me completely? What stands against God and His will? What shines the spotlight on me? What helps build my kingdom instead of His? What am I trying to rationalize to keep around? Kick it! DEATH LEADS TO LIFE - ONLY IF ONE TRULY DIES Why do so many who have “died to self” walk around looking and acting dead? Christ came so you might have life ALIVE in Christ And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. Colossians 3:10 ESV Life is Definitive Life is Daily Life is Choice Life is Essential In order to LIVE ask yourself . . . Am I in His presence? Walking with Him? About His Will? What does God want to do in and through me today? How can I further His Kingdom today? What should I do with what’s been given me to help accomplish His purposes? Who am I relying on to go, do, accomplish, succeed today? Under whose power and authority am I operating? Who is getting the spotlight now