Sermon Outline
Acts 7:58, 8:1-3, 9:1-22
- Parable of the Kernel of Wheat (Jn 12:24, Rom 12:1-2, Gal 5:13, Mt 16:24)
- Saul’s worldly agenda
- Watching over the garments of those stoning Stephen. (Acts 7:58)
- Self-description in (Phil. 3:5-6, Lev 12:3, Acts 26:5)
- Living life for his own lower story plans. (Acts 7:58, 8:1, 8:3, 9:1-2, Phil 3:7-8)
- Paul’s heavenly death (Acts 9:15-16, 2Cor 11:23-27)
- Resurrected Fruit of a Life with Christ
- God’s Plan from Eternity (Gen 3:15, 12:3)
- Application (Jn 12:24, 2Tim 3:12, Mt 25:37-40, 1Tim 4:7-10)
- So how can you do that? How can you die to yourself?
- Set aside daily time to ask Christ, How can I serve someone else today?
- Make it a habit of talking about your faith as you are serving
- Ask God what he would like you to give up today? add in?
- Pause to have a conversation with your neighbor
- Sit with a friend through his or her pain and tragedy?
- Sacrifice Strategically
- Sleep to pray for your city
- Time to Mentor a student
- Serve with a ministry doing great work in your town?
- Will you wake up early to read the word of God?
- Will you die, so that you can truly live?
- So how can you do that? How can you die to yourself?
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