Define martyr = A person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing or refusing to renounce a religion. Martyrdom is about dying for your biblical beliefs but to live as a martyr is to spend your life living for those beliefs. The most effective way to live as a martyr has less to do with living against something and is driven by living for something. Galatians 5:16-19a ESV16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident:Trying to live for self and for Spirit is chaotic.That’s why we have to choose which one we will live for. I chose not to read most of 19-21 because it’s obvious and our focus is on how to live. Galatians 5:22-26 ESV22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.We are given 9 things to live for and in doing this we will live as a martyr.The first is to live for love. striving to love like Jesus in every situation. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.Without love we are nothing and are words are meaningless. God is always | God is neverLove is always | Love is neverPatient | EnvyKind | BoastingEncourages | ProudTruth | DishonorsProtects | SelfishTrusts | AngeredHopes | Records wrongsPerseveres | Delights in evilLove is the greatest.Why is love so great when at times it’s so hard to love people?1 John 4:1-21 ESV By loving fully we are allowing Jesus to shine brightest. Love is the gauge for our life with Jesus.John 13:34-35 ESVSupport the show

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