March 24, 2024 … Our Renaissance In Christ …

March 24, 2024 …  Our Renaissance In Christ  …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Phil Wickham singing … The Jesus Way …  Powerfully singing of how our lives are reborn and reformed forever by surrendering and repenting to follow Jesus’ way.    

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Highlight Passage: … John 12:24 [NLT] … 

24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives..           

… Jesus predicts His death as necessary for all who follow His way to eternal life..                       

Highlight Passage (in context)  …  John 12:23-26 … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus declares that He must die in order for all who believe and follow His way to rebirth and eternal life.                       

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 18:3  [NLT] …  

3 Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven..

… Jesus teaches His followers of the truth of repenting in faith to walk with Christ into eternal life.    

Reference Passage: …  John 1:12  [NLT] …  

12 But to all who believed Him and accepted him, He gave the right to become children of God., 

… John teaches truth that faith in Christ is the only way to be reborn into eternal life.          

Reference Passage: …  John 14:6  [NLT] …  

12 But to all who believed Him and accepted him, He gave the right to become children of God., 

… John teaches truth that faith in Christ is the only way to be reborn into eternal life 

Reference Passage: …  2Corinthians 5:17  [NLT] …  

17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!, 

… Paul shows fellow Christians that ANYONE who surrenders in faith to follow Jesus will experience a new life. 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:8-10 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul also teaches all Christians that dying to self and following Christ’s ways will produce a renaissance way of life for all time.  

Reference Passage: … Titus 3:5 [NLT] …  

 5 He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.. 

… Paul also assures all born-again Christians that Christ died to give all who surrender to follow Him a new lift thru God’s Spirit.  

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Tim Gustafson -  AT THIS LINK -   wrote of Leonardo da Vinci declaring of his life, … “While I thought I was learning how to live… , “I was learning how to die.”  And really, that’s what God’s word teaches, doesn’t it?<b>(see Scriptures above)</b>  It teaches us about our lives being surrendered in faith to Christ, … giving faithful followers of Christ a new, renaissance, way of Christlike living, … a life which produces fruit for God’s eternal kingdom.  

Any of my readers interested in such renaissance living?  That’s why you find me here, every morning, praying that my pursuit of Christlike living, by following God’s word, can - and WILL - lead to the new life, promised by the Apostle Paul, and Jesus, Himself in the Reference Scriptures above, which will see me made over into a Christlike, renaissance, way of living.   Anybody out there with me?                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your way of renaissance living.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me again today, … to continue to pursue Your eternal way of living for You, Lord. … everyday!!   … Amen

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