Dying to Self Part 2: From Rejection to Exception

Verese:

John 3:30 – “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

Galatians 6:3 – “For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”

Genesis 3 – (Referenced for origin of sin and self-focus)

1 Corinthians 1:9 – “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”

2 Timothy 3:1–5 – Description of the self-focused nature of people in the last days.

Matthew 16:24–26 – Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

1 Corinthians 13 – Love “does not insist on its own way.”

Philippians 2 – Jesus humbled Himself and became a servant.

1 John 4 – “Perfect love casts out fear…”

John 10:10–15 – “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy…”

Romans 12:2 – “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed…”

John 4:7–26 – Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well.

James 4:3–5 – Asking wrongly to spend it on passions; friendship with the world is enmity with God.

John 15:18–19 – “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.”

Matthew 10:28–33 – “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul…”

Romans 8:15–16 – “You have received the Spirit of adoption as sons…”

John 1:11 – “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.”

Acts 4:11 – “This Jesus is the stone that was rejected…”

James 4:10 – “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”

James 4:6–7 – “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble…”

Ephesians 2:1–3 – “You were dead in the trespasses and sins… following the course of this world…”

Galatians 5:19–21 – “The acts of the flesh are obvious…”