How do we live the Christian life? Believers often find it difficult to walk the Christian path. What is the answer? The Bible tells us to look to our risen Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who is faithful to guide us through life’s challenges. It is the Lord Jesus who can give us the power to transform our lives for His glory.
Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation
2 Timothy 3:1-5 “3 But this know, that in [the] last days difficult times shall be there;2 for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;5 having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.”
1 Corinthians 15:13-22 “13 But if there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead, neither is Christ raised:14 but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also [is] our preaching, and vain also your faith.
15 And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed [those that are] dead are not raised.
16 For if [those that are] dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised;17 but if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.18 Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are [the] most miserable of all men.20 (But now Christ is raised from among [the] dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.21 For since by man [came] death, by man also resurrection of [those that are] dead.22 For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.”
John 16:7 “But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.”
John 16:19-24 “19 Jesus knew therefore that they desired to demand of him, and said to them, Do ye inquire of this among yourselves that I said, A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me?20 Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.
21 A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.22 And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.
23 And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me: verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.24 Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”
John 16:33 “33 These things have I spoken to you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.”
Acts 2:14-21 “14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them, Men of Judaea, and all ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give heed to my words:15 for these are not full of wine, as *ye* suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;16 but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel,
17 And it shall be in the last days, saith God, [that] I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream with dreams;18 yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.19 And I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:20 the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of [the] Lord come.21 And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of [the] Lord shall be saved.”
2 Corinthians 3:18 “18 But *we* all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit.”
Acts 16:22-25 “22 And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge [them].23 And having laid many stripes upon them they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;
24 who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.25 And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.”
Luke 24:27-32 “27 And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.28 And they drew near to the village where they were going, and *he* made as though he would go farther.29 And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them.
30 And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.31 And their eyes were opened, and they recognised him. And he disappeared from them.32 And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, [and] as he opened the scriptures to us?”