Are you Dead Yet

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   [Music] Lift up your voice for your holy Lord, you are worthy. I will do you in the [Music] for [Music] you. to [Music] my heart. You are my I'm too [Music] [Music] holy Lift your voice. Worthy unto you. Glory. Glory in the highest for you are glory Lord. You are worthy unto you. Glory in the highest. I love you, Lord. And I lift my voice to worship you. Oh my soul, rejoice. Take joy my king in what you hear. Let it be a sweet sweet sound in your one more time. Let's sing it out.

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   And I love you, Lord. And I lift my voice [Music] to worship you, oh my soul, rejoice. Take joy, my king, in what you hear. [Music] Let it be a sweet, sweet sound. Let it be. Let it be a sweet, sweet sound. Let it be. Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your peace. Praise you, Lord. We just praise you, Lord. We love you so much, Lord. We just thank you. We thank you, Lord, for all that you've done for us, Lord. we come together just to to worship you and love you and we want to know what your word is telling us to do. So Lord, we just I just pray right now in Jesus' name for all hearts to be softened, all ears and eyes to be opened, Lord God, that uh so your word can have an effect on us, Lord, as it's supposed to. Lord, we pray that right now in Jesus name and we just love you so much and thank you. Amen. You may be seated. Good morning. So, the song before said, "You are worthy of all praise. To you our lives we raise." Do we really do that? I didn't even know when I was picking out those songs this morning. I didn't even remember that line, but that kind of goes along with the message that the Lord has for us this morning. Um, do we really have we really given our lives really given our lives to Jesus? We've said prayers, we show up for church, we do all these things. Um, but are we going all the way? You can go ahead and put up my title. Are you dead yet? This is the message the Lord gave me for um for me, for you, for whoever's listening, whoever will listen. Are you dead yet? Um and this struck me. I've been trying to in in my daily time with the Lord, I've been trying to um read this little devotion.

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   and it's called Daily Awakenings and it's done by evangelist the late evangelist Steve Hill Steven Hill of the Brownsville Revival and it's just got some really good just some good um zingers in there, you know, that really get you. you know, you you've been to church, when you come back feeling like you have wounds and and you need Jesus to help you because you just got a zinger from the pastor or from his word or from worship or whatever. And um so I'm going to start off by reading this little devotional and and he title is is where that came from. Okay. Which way does it go? Okay. that way. There we go. All right. Um, you know what? Is it working or am I pointing it the wrong way? Well, that would be Thank you, Jordan. How about that? Turn the little button that says on. That would work. That will work. Let's see now. Let's see. Look at that. Is amazing. You're such a technical guru. Yeah, that's why he does our media. Um, so dying to self out of Galatians 2:20 and you can turn there or you can follow along on the screen. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Okay, this is how the devotion starts. And I've just made it a little bigger so you can read it. Steve Hill said, "Early on in my Christian life, I learned the biblical principle of dying to self. I learned that my life was not my own." How many of you know that this morning? If you're if you're living for Jesus, your life is not your own. I began to understand that my way of thinking, my will, and my desires had to be taken to the cross and crucified. I now belonged to Jesus. Whoever wrote the following article on dying to self refused to put his or her name as the author. It serves as a clear example of what the Christian life should be. Now, how about that? You don't see that very often, you know, nowadays. If you're writing something, you want credit for it. You want to boost it. You want to get likes and and clicks and everything else. But this person who wrote this next section didn't even put their name on it.

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   When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at not and you don't sting and hurt with the insult or oversight, but your heart is happy being counted worthy to suffer for Christ. That is dying to self. When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving silence, that is dying to self. When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any impunctuality, or any annoyance, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it as Jesus endured it, that is dying to self. Are we saying, "Oh me," or, "Amen." When you are content with any food, any offering, any reignment, any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will of God, that is dying to self. Oh me. Yeah. When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation or to record your own good works or itch after commendation. When you can truly love to be unknown, that is dying to self. When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances. That is dying to self. When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself, and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up with with your heart, that is dying to self. Are you dead yet? In these last days, the Spirit would bring us to the cross that I may know him, being made conformable to his death. Now, this is Steve Hill finishing this up. My friend, it is so true that everyone wants the benefit of the cross, but no one wants to be crucified. Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Everyone wants Jesus to change them, but no one wants to die to self. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the cross, the death of the cross.

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