Sermon Highlights by Pastor Andrew Victor

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)

I have been crucified with Christ. We need to learn to say no to the flesh. The flesh is self-will, self-desire, what I want, who I want to be, what I want to do. The flesh is your will. The flesh needs to die. Your will needs to die. What you want needs to die. How you want to live needs to die. Who you think you are needs to die. What you should do needs to die. The respect you deserve needs to die. The flesh needs to die so you can really live.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. If God be for you, He is more than the whole world against you. So when my feet touch circumstances that are overwhelming and trying to succumb my faith, I step in and the presence of God abides in me and God makes a way where there is no way. Because Jesus lives in me.

The life I now live. I believe what God is looking for is a generation who will rise up and say, “Hey, we will live a life where we commit ourselves to the truth of God’s Word. Living it out in our daily lives, in our schools, in our communities, amongst our friends.” It’s time to be the brave. We need a generation who will live brave. Not live afraid, not live concerned about what everyone else is going to think. God is looking for a generation that is going to rise up and be brave.

Brave people will deal with the obstacles in their life. There are obstacles that can stop you from getting close to God. You will never step into what God wants for you when you aren’t prepared to deal with those obstacles. The brave are those who will deal with them.

Brave people see something the others don’t always see. When you look, you start to see. And when you start to see, God breaks your heart. When God starts to move in your heart, then you got to do something. That’s when God’s power starts to work through you. Even if you don’t know what you can do, we need to stop and do something. God is calling us to look right into the situation.

Brave people are prepared to place their lives in the hands of another. Your life may have been in the hands of someone who misused it and you ended up with the term of abuse. But that doesn’t have to define who you are. Because Jesus said, “I have come to heal the broken hearted and to set the captive free” (cf. Isaiah 61:1-3). When you do that with Jesus, He shows you what your value is and you start to be the person you were called to be.

BE BRAVE!!! Live the life now!!!