Romans 12:1-2“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Continuing Pastor Kyle's message, the secondly, when we taste Christ’s living water of salvation, we (2) start releasing empty wells for a richer and truly satisfying life, both physically and spiritually. The Lord Jesus meets our needs. This is a feat that only God can create. God draws us back into the “real” issue, and frees us from seeking those things which are temporal to a transformational and lifelong process of finding spiritual and relational wholeness. The Lord does not want something from us, but some thing for us. He wants us to be spiritually fit and the righteousness of living water makes that “born again” transformation possible.
Colossians 3:1-17tells us, “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds in things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you, sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, salve, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
Thirdly, when we taste Christ’s living water of salvation, we (3) recognize and perpetually revitalize our higher calling to live out the gospel. In John 4: 23-24, Jesus told the woman at the well and all of us, “the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers with worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” Our walk towards Jesus is our spiritual journey to eternity. The Apostle Paul says in Romans 3:22-25a, “the righteousness of God through in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, received by faith.”
The power of the body of Christ is in us and working through us. It starts with a first step towards Christ. Romans 10:8b-9says, “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Recognize and realize that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. Make the choice to follow the Lord Jesus all on your own. He is risen. Drink of His living water.
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