slides for sermon

1. Luke 9:23

2.  Joseph asks the butler,
“Why are you so sad
today?” Gen. 40:7
 Joshua obeyed Moses and
took men to defeat
Amalek. Ex. 17:9
 David chooses to trust in
God to protect his sheep
from a lion and a bear
 Peter, the fisherman,
chooses to follow Jesus.
Matt. 4:19
 Two years later, Joseph
helps Pharaoh prepare for
the famine. Gen. 41:9
 Joshua commands the
people to cross the Jordan
Josh. 1:11
 David chooses to trust in
God to protect the
Israelites from Goliath
1 Sam. 17:34
 Peter, the apostle,
encourages Christians to
continue following Jesus.

3.  Then his father and mother said to him, “Is
there no woman among the daughters of your
brethren, or among all my people, that you must
go and get a wife from the uncircumcised
Philistines?”
And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me,
for she pleases me well.” Jud. 14:2-4
 Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in
the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Jud. 16:4
 Then the Philistines took him and put out his
eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They
bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a
grinder in the prison. Jud. 16:21

4.  For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to
the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the
Lord’s. Rom. 14:8
 And He died for all, that those who live should live no
longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and
rose again. 2 Cor. 5:15
 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to
God. Gal. 2:19
 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—
by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Pet. 2:24
 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm
yourselves also with the same mind, that he no longer
should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of
men, but for the will of God. 1 Peter 4:2

5.  Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those
who come to God through Him, since He always lives to
make intercession for them. Heb. 7:25
 Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your
precepts. Ps. 119:173
 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6