Living
Beyond
Yourself
Don’t Waste
Your Life!
“And every night
I get on my
knees
and thank the
lord above …
I just want to
live until I
die.”
“Does my relationship
with Jesus help me in my
quest of really living
life?”
Be imitators of God, therefore, as
dearly loved children 2 and live a
life of love, just as Christ loved us
and gave himself up for us…
Ephesians 5:1
8
For you were once darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light 9 (for the
fruit of the light consists in all
goodness, righteousness and
truth) 10 and find out what
pleases the Lord.
Ephesians 5:8-10
15
Be very careful, then, how
you live — not as unwise but
as wise, 16 making the most of
every opportunity, because the
days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16
17Therefore
do not be foolish,
but understand what the
Lord’s will is. 18 Do not get
drunk on wine, which leads to
debauchery. Instead, be filled
with the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:17-18
1. Handle Life With Care
15
Be very careful, then, how
you live — not as unwise but
as wise, 16 making the most
of every opportunity…
Ephesians 5:15-16
“How we
spend our
days is,
of course,
how we
spend
our lives.”
The future is
something which
everyone reaches
at the rate of 60
minutes an hour,
whatever he does,
whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
15
Be careful, then how
you live … because the
days are evil.
Is Christianity
optimistic
or
pessimistic?
Christianity
Is
Realistic
How are these days evil?
1. Decay
We live in a
fallen world
I consider that our present
sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that
will be revealed in us.
19 The creation waits in eager
expectation for the sons of God
to be revealed.
Romans 8:18-21
20
For the creation was subjected
to frustration, not by its own
choice, but by the will of the one
who subjected it, in hope 21 that
the creation itself will be liberated
from its bondage to decay and
brought into the glorious freedom
of the children of God.
2. Darkness
We live in the
enemy’s world
The Evil Without
For our struggle is not against
flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities,
against the powers of this dark
world and against the spiritual
forces of evil in the heavenly
realms.
Ephesians 6:12-13
The Evil Within
The age is evil because God
allows so much
pride and wickedness
in the human heart
to go unrestrained for now.
For you were once darkness,
but now you are light in the
Lord. Live as children of light.
Ephesians 5:8
3. Death
We live in a
dying world
Therefore, just as sin entered
the world through one man,
and death through sin, and in
this way death came to all men,
because all sinned…
Romans 5:12
Christ gave himself for our
sins to deliver us from this
present evil age.
Galatians 1:4
15
Be very careful, then, how
you live — not as unwise but
as wise, 16 making the most
of every opportunity,
because the days are evil.
...we are God’s
workmanship,
created in Christ
Jesus to do good
works, which God
prepared in advance
for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10
I urge you to live a life
worthy of the calling
you have received.
Ephesians 4:1
Teach us to
number our
days, that we
may gain a
heart of
wisdom.
Psalm 90:12
2. Live within your limits
Therefore do not be foolish,
but understand what the
Lord’s will is
Ephesians 5:17
18
Do not get drunk on wine,
which leads to debauchery,
but be filled with the Holy
Spirit.
Ephesians 5:18
Wine is a mocker
and beer a brawler;
whoever is led
astray by them is
not wise
Proverbs 20:1
Wine makes you mean,
beer makes you quarrelsome
— a staggering drunk
is not much fun.
Proverbs 20:1
(The Message)
The Christian’s
source of joy
. . . be filled with
the Spirit
The work of the Spirit is to impart
life, to implant hope, to give liberty,
to testify of Christ, to guide us into
all truth, to teach us all things, to
comfort the believer, and to convict
the world of sin.
Dwight L. Moody
Do not pray for more of the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Third
Person of the Trinity and is not in
pieces. Every child of God has all of
Him, but does He have more of us?
F.B. Meyer