Unshakeable Kingdom Unwavering Warrior

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C. C HECK THIS OUT . We sacrifice to fulfill God’s will because Jesus did for us. As he did, so we must do.

1. God forms us as we surrender. Christ’s Spirit helps us as we share in his sufferings.

a. Isa. 64.8 – But now, O

LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

b. Rom. 8.14-17 – For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. [15] For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” [16] The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, [17] and if children, then heirs – heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

See Appendix 7, Laws of Sowing and Reaping

2. His sacrifice is now both a model and an example for us.

a. Phil. 2.5-8 – Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, [6] who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, [7] but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. [8] And being