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Morning Noon & Night : The Defined Life

April 7, 2024   /   NewLife Church MI

Who are you ?

Jesus said, “It is enough for students to be like their teachers, 
and servants like their masters.” 
(Matthew 10:25)

Jesus’ example for living is the !

“Salvation isn’t simply the forgiveness of sin 
but the receiving of Jesus’ very own life.”
 -Chris Cruze

What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?

The master their ideal life, and how to live in it.

A disciple trusts the master’s definition of reality, and organizes their life around becoming like their master and learning from them.

What things have I my life around?

We thrive in the right .

What would it look like if we created environments where people could thrive, experience freedom, feel welcomed, find healing, and learn something new about God?

Jesus announces God is rescuing you from the you you were never meant to be, in order to become the person He dreamed and created you to be.

What does a good life look like?

  • It looks like a of renewing our minds.
  • It looks like living in connection with our father.
  • It looks like dying to .

John 3:30 (NKJV)
He must increase, but I must decrease.


Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

What will this new life look like?

  • Disciples who readily what God is doing
  • Disciples who quickly to what God is doing

Disciples of Jesus order their lives differently.

“The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.”
-Eugene Peterson


Matthew 10:16-25 (MSG)
16 “Stay alert. This is hazardous work I’m assigning you. You’re going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don’t call attention to yourselves. Be as shrewd as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.


17-20 “Don’t be naive. Some people will question your motives, others will smear your reputation—just because you believe in me. Don’t be upset when they haul you before the civil authorities. Without knowing it, they’ve done you—and me—a favor, given you a platform for preaching the kingdom news! And don’t worry about what you’ll say or how you’ll say it. The right words will be there; the Spirit of your Father will supply the words.


21-23 “When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don’t quit. Don’t cave in. It is all well worth it in the end. It is not success you are after in such times but survival. Be survivors! Before you’ve run out of options, the Son of Man will have arrived.

The master their ideal life, and how to live in it.

The master everything you need to live in it.

2 Peter 1:2-3 (Amplified Bible)
2 Grace and peace [that special sense of spiritual well-being] be multiplied to you in the [true, intimate] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 For His divine power has bestowed on us [absolutely] everything necessary for [a dynamic spiritual] life and godliness, through [a]true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

Will you allow the Master(Jesus) to define your life and how you live it?

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