Death Gives Life

“For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake…. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.” – 2 Corinthians 4:11-12

Death is the great mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

*Death gives life.
*Jesus’ death on the cross gave life.
*The death of a vision brings new vision.

*The death of a seed gives new life.
*It is the central focus of God’s requirement for experiencing Him–death.

When Jesus extended us an invitation to experience salvation and a relationship with Him, it came with a great cost, our very lives.
Yet what we don’t realize is that until we relinquish our total lives, we really aren’t living at all.
Without this death we will continue to strive, manipulate, and fret over every detail of life.

It is when we finally say, “Yes, Lord, I am Yours completely,” that we experience real freedom for the first time.

This is the only time when Christ is fully seen in and through our lives.

The First Truth to Master Life says:

” I confess my spiritual and moral bankruptcy and agree with Jesus’ words: “without me you can do nothing.”

Result: I am fully accepted and welcomed into God’s Family.

I am “Accepted.”

*When this happens, I am fully accepted into God’s family.  Upon receiving Jesus and His work on the cross, of bearing my sin and His victory over death through His resurrection—I have the gift of eternal life.