THREE STAGES OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY IN CHRIST: MARTYRDOM (1)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Martyrdom
a) Martyrdom is the last stage of maturity in Christ and it leads to us becoming glorified. This is when a person gives their whole life fully to Christ, dying to themselves that the life of Christ may live through them.
(Galatians 2:20 NKJV)
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
b) A person becomes a martyr spiritually before they do physically; martyrdom is an attitude of the heart that loves God so much that they want to give God everything.
(Romans 6:4-7 NKJV)
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. {5} For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, {6} knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. {7} For he who has died has been freed from sin.
The End ...
1. Martyrdom a) Martyrdom is the last stage of maturity in Christ and it leads to us becoming glorified. This is when a person gives their whole life fully to Christ, dying to themselves that the life of Christ may live through them.
(Galatians 2:20 NKJV)
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
b) A person becomes a martyr spiritually before they do physically; martyrdom is an attitude of the heart that loves God so much that they want to give God everything.
(Romans 6:4-7 NKJV)
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. {5} For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, {6} knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. {7} For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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