Title: Lose Your Life For Christ (2011 Fellowship Conference)
Meta: You see, Jesus said, "Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it." (Luke 17:33) If you seek to hold on to your own self and the honor of self, you're going to lose that life anyway.
Tags: conference, Luke 17:33, sacrifice, Christian

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You see, Jesus said, "Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it;

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but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it." (Luke 17:33)

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If you seek to hold on to your own self and the honor of self,

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you're going to lose that life anyway. (P)

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Mere Christianity is to maintain a clear conscience

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and allow no darkness at all in your heart. (P)

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If you set yourself up as an idol, wanting people to admire you,

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always worried what other people think about you

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rather than what Christ thinks about you,

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then that would wear you out. (P)

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God can take a worn out man in one night,

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and give him a life changing encounter with God. (P)

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In enduring the hardest things that you go through,

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never, never, never, never, NEVER give up.

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But keep on. (P)

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And you preach it to them, and then these people who used to be slaves of sin

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are now brought to the place where they are obedient from the heart to this Word.

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And we can offer that up,

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and it's for the glory of His name among all the nations.

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Brethren, this is what we've got to be thinking.

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And the thing about it is, Paul was excited. (P)

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He is a real God, He is a living God.

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It's not just us dealing with something out there and trying to believe in Him.

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We are talking about a God who acts.

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Eye has not seen nor ear heard,

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neither has entered into the heart of man,

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a God like Thee that acts on behalf of the one that waits on Him. (P)

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Our day is now, and our day is short.

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We are not going to be around long. (P)

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No little pockets of rebellion. None at all.

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I'm free O God before you.

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Whatever you want me to do, I'll do it. (P)

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This is our day.

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Brethren, we can't live in the past.

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Those biographies out there on the table, they are glorious.

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But we can't live on that. (P)

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He is going to sanctify every trial.

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He's going to sanctify every test.

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He's going to bless every feeble effort.

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He is going to use every sermon.

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He's going to strengthen you for the task when you are too weary for it.

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He is going to come to you when you most need it.

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And He is going to say to you, "Don't fear, I am with you.

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You're going to make it." (P)

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It says, "We have fellowship with one another," in 1 John 1:7.

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You see it? We have fellowship with one another.

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Here we are. Here we are.

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How many of us, all of us who know the Lord,

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we can say that friends we used to have are no friends at all.

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They just helped me pick up speed for hell.

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And now the friends I've got, they are saints; holy friends.

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And what a fellowship we have.

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I mean, often you gather together one on one, and it's heaven on earth.