An Ordered Life: How Jesus Lived His Life. Hebrews 12:1-3
1st Word: “Father Forgive Them” Luke 23:33-35
“Your Life is in Order When You Have Forgiven Everyone!”
2nd Word: “Today You Shall Be With Me In Paradise” Luke 23:39
“Your Life is In Order When You Are Giving Witness to the Lost, Dying and Hurting of this World!”
3rd Word: “Behold Your Son, Behold Your Mother” Luke 19:26
Your Life is in Order When You Are Taking Care of Your People!
4th Word: Matthew 27:46 “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
Your Life is in Order When You Know the Seriousness of Sin!
5th Word: “I Thirst! John 19:28
Your Life is in Order When You Are Hungering and Thirsting for What is Right!
Jesus’ 6th Word: “It Is Finished” John 19:30
Your Life is in Order When You Are Finishing Strong!
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He cried out with a loud voice and said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit.
Hebrews 12:1-3 – Jesus Finished Well! We Finish Well!
1. Fix Your Eyes on Jesus! He is the Finish Line!
Mark 8:36 What does it profit a man if He gains the whole world and forfeits His soul? yet loses His soul?
The Finish Line is Christlikeness! Romans 8:28-30
The Finish Line is Completing Your Purpose in this Life!
Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his father and underwent decay;
The Finish Line is Your Salvation!
2. Keep on Believing that Jesus Finishes What He Starts!
Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
Philippians 3:21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
Jude 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,
With this confidence: You can believe!
3. Believe That You Will Finish Well!
¬ By laying Aside every encumbrance and sin that easily entangles You!
¬ By Running the Race With Endurance!
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 – How we Run Our Race!
¬ By Considering Jesus and Not Growing Weary!
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; 8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.
7th Word: “Father, Into Thy Hands, I Commit My Spirit”
Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Thy hands I commit My spirit.” And having said this, He breathed His last.
Your Life is in Order When You Are Committing Your Life and Circumstances to the Lord!
1. Committing Your Life to Lord Is Committing to His Will! Hebrews 10:5-10
• See What God Does and Imitate Him!
John 5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, Truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the son also does in like manner.
• Speak What You Hear Him Saying!
John 12:49 For I did not speak on my own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.
2. Committing Your Circumstances to the Lord!
¬ By Trusting God! In All Things! 1 Peter 2:20-25
Psalm 31:14 But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, “You are my God.” 15 My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
¬ By Considering with Joy the Outcome of the Trial!
James 1:2-4
These are the Last two words of Jesus on the cross, while He is dying for You! And what happens when your life is in order?
John 20:19-23
1. Peace – Peace Be Unto You!
2. Purpose – As the Father Has sent Me, so I send You!
3. Power – Receive the Holy Spirit!
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