CD 1613 “Living by the Cross”

Don't Miss Out!!! (Victory Worship Center) with Pastor Greg Proctor

CD 1613 “Living by the Cross”

{Victorious not Viced}

(January 21, 2024 P.M.)

Frank Sintra sang about living life by “My Way”. The Eagles sang about “Life in the Fast Lane”. Many have sung it but I first heard Elvis sing about “living below in this ole sinful, where could I go but to the Lord! You and I know how to truly live by dying, by partaking of the cross! We have instruction from God’s living Word as how to have life and have it more abundantly! Do you know what the Apostle Paul knew? This is the key to learning how to live abundantly:

*Romans 7:18 (KJV) For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

With that truth, turn to the letter to the Galatians. In this letter the Apostle Paul reveals 5 different deliverances we have promised to us as born-again children of God! Tonight we are only going to look at the 4th of the 5 he lists:

#1 Evil Age (eon = long time - eternity)

*Galatians 1:4 (KJV) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world (age), according to the will of God and our Father:

#2 The Law

*Galatians 2:19 (KJV) For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

#3 Self

*Galatians 2:20 (KJV) 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.

#4 The Flesh

*****TEXT Galatians 5:24-25 (KJV) And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

#5 The World(cosmos = the orderly system)

*Galatians 6:14 (KJV) But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

So like I said in the opening, let’s concentrate upon the deliverance from “The Flesh” we just read as our text You might ask why is it so important to learn to “Live by the Cross”? Remember we talked about the cross of the New Covenant is God’s Altar where we present our bodies as a living sacrifice!

*1 Corinthians 15:23 (KJV) But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

Q. Who do you belong to, the flesh or to the Lord Jesus? A. It makes a difference when He returns as a thief in the night (1 Thess. 5:2)!

Food 4 Thought: Someone once said “nothing has been taught until something has been learned” (see 1 John 2:20 & 27 the Holy Spirit is your teacher)!

So let’s reread our text:

*Galatians 5:24-25 (KJV) And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Note those who belong to the Lord, those who He is coming after have:

#1 “crucified the flesh” #4717 (stow-ro’-o) to impale on a cross, figuratively to extinguish passions and selfishness!

#2 “with the affections” #3804 (path’-ay-mah) emotions

#3 “and lusts” #1939 (ep-ee-thoo-mee’-ah) longing for what is forbidden - to covet.

We need to bak up and look at these works of the flesh so we will understand what we need to crucify, place on our cross - on God’s altar:

*Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV

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