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blood…” The Apostle Paul said that God revealed His Son in
Him. Galatians 1:24, “And they were glorifying God because
of me.” They were glorifying God because of Paul.

What I want to do is to look at redemptive living from the
standpoint of those who want to work with God; not when we
resist and not when we try to do our own thing and not when
we seek our own will or glory but when we choose to glorify
God. 1 Corinthians 6:19&20, “Or do you not know that your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have
been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.”
The Holy Spirit lives in you and there is a way to glorify God.
1 Corinthians 10:31, “Whether, then, you eat or drink or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense
either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; just as I also
please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the
profit of the many, that they may be saved.”

I want to describe the redemptive life from the standpoint of
those who unite with the Lord. What I would like to show you
first is the indispensable condition of redemptive living. Then
I want to show you the indispensable disposition of redemptive
living. Then I want to show you the indispensable goal of
redemptive living. If I’m going to live redemptively, I’ve got
to meet this condition and it will lead to this goal.

What is the indispensable condition of redemptive living? I’ll
state it for you and then I’ll try to illustrate it for you. In one
word, it’s childlikeness. God demands childlikeness. Unless
you are like a child you are not going to enter. Mark 9:35-37,
“And sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, ‘If
anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and the servant
of all.’ And taking a child, He set him before them, and taking
him in His arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever receives one child
like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me
does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.’” He takes a little
child as an illustration.