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vessel that was pleasing to Your heart. Enable us to enter Your rest.
We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen

5 REDEMPTIVE LIVING

WHAT I LONG TO COMMUNICATE IN MY
MESSAGE ON REDEMPTIVE LIVING

I want to show that God receives glory because He is sovereign
over all things. He rules the good and overrules the evil. Even
when men are unwilling to cooperate with the Lord, He
orchestrate it in some way to further His redemptive purposes on
earth. However, there is a special glory that He receives when a
Christian submits unconditionally to Him. I will attempt to define
childlikeness, surrender and a heart set on His glory. Through
such an instrument He lives redemptively. 100% everything that
God sends or allow in a dedicated Believer’s life is designed to
help someone discover the Redeemer. This glorifies God!

The Indispensable Principle

As we come to look in the Bible, there is a principle that we call the
indispensable principle and that is total reliance on God’s Holy
Spirit. We cannot understand the Bible unless He shows us Jesus
and only God can show the Lord. No human being, no teacher, can
present the Lord apart from the Holy Spirit. I would like to begin
with a Bible verse that ties into redemptive living. Psalm 67:7,
“God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth may fear Him.” The
Psalm begins the same way it ends. God blesses us so that the world
might be blessed. He doesn’t bless us to bless us. It’s redemptive.
He blesses us so that the world might fear Him. That’s why He chose