DIE TO PASSIVITY
““‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”
Revelation 3:15-16
“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.”
1 Corinthians 16:13
DIE TO THE WORLD
“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
John 15:19
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”
Mark 8:36
DIE TO PAST
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
““Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:18-19
DIE TO SELF
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20
“Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”
Matthew 10:39