Lenny emphasizes the importance of living an abiding life in Christ, drawing parallels between our relationship with Jesus and His relationship with the Father. He underscores that this life is not about religious activity but an intimate connection with Christ, where His words become flesh in us.
Lenny shares personal anecdotes of encountering people in everyday situations and feeling prompted by the Lord to engage with them. He highlights the internal struggle of choosing Christ's life over his own, acknowledging the cost of obedience. Each story exemplifies how choosing obedience leads to death of self and allows the power of resurrection to manifest in our lives, impacting those around us.
He reminds us that Jesus, both fully God and fully man, also experienced the struggle of choosing the Father's will. Lenny encourages us that amidst these challenges, God's grace is sufficient, urging us to continually choose death to self and life in Christ, allowing Him to conform us into His image.
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: