Part 3 | “My Body, My Choice, My Change”

Change or Die Message Series: “Are you really interested in change or do you just like the “idea” of it? When it comes to becoming a new person, the world has their way and God has His. Often times they are very very different. On the heels of 2020, let’s embrace 2021 with a new attitude – changing for the good and the glory of God. If we learn to overcome the four basic hurdles of change, we will see God’s glory in our transformation.”

Reminder: Fasting and Prayer | Jan. 31-Feb. 2

From 1 Corinthians 9:24-10:4

1. My is a .

📖 1 Corinthians 9:24 (ESV) Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

A. We’ve got in the .

📖 Hebrews 12:1-2 (ESV) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

B. We’ve in for an .

📖 1 Corinthians 9:24 (ESV) run that you may obtain it (the prize).

📖 James 1:12 (NLT) God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

📖 Hebrews 10:35-36 (NLT) So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

📖 1 Corinthians 9:26 (ESV) So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.

C. We need and exercise.

📖 1 Corinthians 9:27 (ESV) But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

2. I have a in the .

📖 1 Corinthians 9:27 (ESV) “I discipline my body and keep it under control“

Make a out of or your will make a out of .

A. and the .

📖 Luke 5:16 (NKLV) He (Jesus) Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.

B. and .

📖 Matthew 6:17-18 (ESV) But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Fasting is physical from food so that your spirit can more fully experience with God.

📖 Mark 6:31 (ESV) “Come away by yourselves to a lonely place.”

C. Christ-Centered .

📖 Mark 3:13-14 (ESV) And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach

D. of the of .

📖 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 (ESV) For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

📖 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 (NLT) When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t we sharing in the body of Christ? 17 And though we are many, we all eat from one loaf of bread, showing that we are one body.