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31-40 - Digging For Gold


GOD'S PART: He gives a new_________ (LIGHT), a new_____________
(LOVED), and a new____________ (LIFE)
Only He can deal with our moral blindness, insecurity,
and fleshly desires.
OUR PART: We must choose to deny our ____________, take up our
_______________, and follow Him.
Only we can turn from our pride, self-sufficiency, independency, and half-
heartedness; and reach out in love to others.
It is up to us: we can walk as the old man walked with our lives revolving primarily around ourselves; or we can lose our lives and find them as we walk in the New Man, filled with Christ's life, with our lives revolving primarily around God and others!
GOD'S PART
WITH GOD'S L________, WE CAN GO FROM_______________THINKING
TO_____________________ THINKING (ROM 12:2)
FROM _____________ TO _____________ L___________ OF GOD
(Eph 5:21)
_____________ TO _____________ I___________ OF GOD
(Eccl 3:11; Eph 1:11,12)
_____________ TO _____________ G___________ OF GOD
(Rom 1:21,25)
_____________ TO _____________ H___________ OF GOD
(Eph 5:8,9)
_____________ TO _____________ T___________ OF GOD
(Jn 17:21)
WITH GOD'S L__________, WE CAN GO FROM ______________ EMOTIONS TO __________________ EMOTIONS (Matt 11:28-30; I Jn 4:18)
FROM FEELING ____________ TO FEELING ____________ L_________
(Heb 13:5) ______________
FEELING ____________ TO FEELING ____________ O_________
(I Jn 1:9; Rom 8:1; Heb 4:15) _____________
FEELING ____________ TO FEELING ____________ V_________
(I Pet 1:18,19)
FEELING ____________ TO FEELING ____________ E_________
(Phil 4:6,7) ____________
FEELING ____________ TO FEELING ____________ D_________
(Phil 4:4; James 1:2-4)
WITH GOD'S L__________, WE CAN GO FROM _____________-LIFE TO ___________________-LIFE (Galatians 2:20; II Peter 1:3,4)
FROM ____________ TO SPIRITUAL ___________ L________________
(Jn 11:25; Col 1:27)
____________ TO SPIRITUAL ___________ I________________
(Jn 8:12,16:13; I Cor 2:12)
____________ TO SPIRITUAL ___________ F_______________
(Jn 6:35; Col 2:9,10)
____________ TO SPIRITUAL ___________ E_______________
(Jn 11:25; Acts 1:8)
OUR PART
WE MUST DENY_______ _______, TAKE UP OUR CROSS (LK 9:23)
DENY SELF-_______________ (I Jn 1:8-10) C_____________________
SELF-_______________ (Prov 3:5,6) R_____________________
SELF-_______________ (James 1:22) O_____________________
SELF-_______________ (Matt 6:33) S_____________________
SELF-_______________ (Phil 2:3,4) S_____________________
AND SEEK TO REACH OUT IN L__________________ (MATT 22:37-40)
TO _________________ (John 14:21) L_____________________
TO _________________ (Col 3:18-21) O_____________________
TO _________________ (ACTS 2:42-47) V_____________________
TO _________________ (MATT 28:19,20) E_____________________
WILL YOU FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST ALONG THE PATH OF THE CROSS?
WILL YOU LEARN ALL YOU CAN ABOUT THE PATH?
WILL YOU FOLLOW THE PATH WHEREVER JESUS MAY LEAD YOU? (IN
YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE? IN YOUR IMPORTANT DECISIONS?)
A SIMPLE GOAL: MAKE GENUINE LOVE YOUR GOAL (I TIM 1:5). EVERYTHING LISTED ABOVE IS THE WAY TO GET TO THIS GOAL ---THE WAY OF THE CROSS! JESUS' CROSS TO OUR CROSS!
GOD'S GOALS? EPH 3:16-19; I PET 1:13-15