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  WHOSOEVER WILL SAVE HIS LIFE SHALL LOSE IT
  by A.B. Simpson
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the power of Christianity to bring
resurrection life and enable us to follow the higher ideal, resulting in
eternal life and the crown of glory.

Topics: "Identity in Christ", "Resurrection Life"
Scripture References: John 11:25, Romans 6:11

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A.B. Simpson emphasizes that Christ teaches the essence of resurrection
and life, highlighting that true Christianity offers not just moral
guidance but the transformative power of resurrection life. This life
begins with a definitive moment of crisis where believers die to sin and
are reborn to live for God, marking a clear transition akin to the dawn
of a new day. Simpson encourages believers to recognize their identity
in Christ, asserting that death is merely a passage to eternal life,
with the cross leading to everlasting glory.

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First and foremost Christ teaches resurrection and life. The power of
Christianity is life. It brings us not merely law, duty, example, with
high and holy teaching and admonition; it brings us the power to follow
the higher ideal and the life that spontaneously does the things
commanded. And it is not only life, but resurrection life. It begins
with a real crisis, a definite transaction, a point of time as clear as
the morning dawn. It is not an everlasting dying and an eternal struggle
to live. But it is all expressed in a tense that denotes definiteness,
fixedness and finality. We actually died at a certain point and as
actually began to live the resurrection life.

Let us reckon ourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ (Romans 6:11).

And death is only the pathway and portal To the life that shall die
nevermore; And the cross leadeth up to the crown everlasting, The Jordan
to Canaan's bright shore.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ab-simpson/whosoever-will-save-his-life-shall-lose-it/
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