"God's Will for Christ and His Converts"

1. Set apart

2. Sent

3. Obey

4. Suffer

5. Rejected

6. Die

7. Raised

Christ SET the PATTERN!

Luke 9:21-26 And He straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; [22] Saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. [23] And He said to them all, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. [24] For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for My sake, the same shall save it. [25] For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? [26] For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He shall come in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.

God never resurrects that which hasn't first died!!

Paul helps us understood this resurrection principle.

2 Cor. 1:8-10 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: [9] But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: [10] Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us;