today with christ

Today With

Christ! 1 John 1:3

Introduction:

• One of the best ways to help ourselves make

sure we are doing the right things is to ask

questions. 2 Peter 1:3,10-13

• Are you living Today with Christ?

• Let us ask some questions that can help us

to be sure that we are living with Christ today

and everyday.

Have you died with Him?

• We need to die to the sinful life.

Romans 6:1-7

• Rom. 6:8 “Now if we have died with

Christ, we believe that we will also live

with him.”

Today With

Christ!

Do you have this harmony?

• Rom. 15:5 ESV “May the God of

endurance and encouragement grant you

to live in such harmony with one another,

in accord with Christ Jesus”

• Harmony with our brethren and with Christ

to glorify God... Phil. 2:1-2; Eph. 4:3-4;

Romans 15:6 Today With

Christ!

Are you in His one body? • 1 Cor. 12:12 “For just as the body is one and

has many members, and all the members of

the body, though many, are one body, so it is

with Christ.”

• You get into Christ’s one body when you obey

His gospel and are baptized. 1 Cor. 12:13

• Christ’s body is the church / kingdom!

Colossians 1:13,18, 24 Today With

Christ!

Does Christ live in you, because

you’ve crucified the old you? • Gal. 2:20 ESV “I have been crucified with

Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ

who lives in me. And the life I now live in the

flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who

loved me and gave himself for me.”

• Your old worldly self is to be crucified!

Rom. 6:6; Gal. 6:14 Today With

Christ!

Are you alive with Christ,

or dead in sin? • Eph. 2:5-6 “even when we were dead in

our trespasses, made us alive together

with Christ--by grace you have been saved

-- and raised us up with him…”

• We receive God’s grace when we get with

Christ (in baptism) which makes us alive

from being dead in sin. 1 Peter 3:21 Today With

Christ!

Have you been buried and raised

with Christ? • Colossians 2:12-13 “having been buried

with him in baptism, in which you were also

raised with him through faith in the powerful

working of God… 13 And you, who were dead

in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of

your flesh, God made alive together with

him, having forgiven us all our trespasses” Today With

Christ!

What’s your desire?

• Where do you want to be 100 years from

now?

• Phil. 1:23 “I am hard pressed between the

two. My desire is to depart and be with

Christ, for that is far better.”

• It is our future home… 2 Corinthians 5:8-9

Today With

Christ!

Is your old life of sin hidden?

• Col. 3:3 “For you have died, and your life

is hidden with Christ in God.”

• We are to put off (cease) the old sinful life

and put on the new righteous Christ-like

life… Ephesians 4:22-24

Today With

Christ!

Are you a fellow heir with Him?

• We all need to have an obedient faith and

be baptized into Christ so that we can be

children of God. Galatians 3:26-27

• Rom 8:17 and if children, then heirs--

heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,

provided we suffer with him in order that

we may also be glorified with him.

Today With

Christ!

Are You Living Today With

Christ? • God directs us to live today and every day

with Christ!

• “If anyone would come after me, let him

deny himself and take up his cross daily

and follow me.” Luke 9:23

• Come follow Jesus and live with Him today

and for all eternity! Acts 18:8; 2:38; 8:37;

1 John 2:25