1. Delighting in Christ, Boasting in the Cross Experiencing the Blessing of God

2. Delighting in Christ Why delight? Can we be saved without delighting in Christ? Can we be sanctified without delighting in Christ? Can we serve without delighting in Christ?

3. Salvation and Delighting in Christ 1 Peter 1:8-9

4. Sanctification and Delighting in Christ “Ecstasy and delight are essential to the believer’s soul and they promote sanctification. “We were not meant to live without spiritual exhilaration and the Christian who goes for a long time without the experience of heart- warming will soon find himself tempted to have his emotions satisfied from earthly things and not, as he ought, from the Spirit of God.”

5. Sanctification and Delighting in Christ “The soul is so constituted that it craves fulfilment from things outside itself and will embrace earthly joys for satisfaction when it cannot reach spiritual ones. “The believer is in spiritual danger if he allows himself to go for any length of time without tasting the love of Christ and savouring the felt comforts of a Saviour’s presence.

6. Sanctification and Delighting in Christ “When Christ ceases to fill the heart with satisfaction, our souls will go in silent search of other lovers. “By the enjoyment of the love of Christ in the heart of a believer, we mean an experience of the “love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us” (Rom. 5:5) John Flavel (1627-1691)

7. Serving and Delighting in Christ Luke 10:38-42

8. Seeing Jesus Luke 24:27-30 Ephesians 1:17-18

9. The Excellence of Jesus Christ His Attributes His Achievements

10. Boasting in the Cross “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” I Cor 1:31 “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Gal 6:14

11. Boasting in the Cross Why Jesus suffered and died: To absorb the wrath of God – Gal 3:13 To please the Father – Eph 5:2 To demonstrate God’s love for us – Rom 5:7-8 To become a ransom for many – Mark 10:45 To provide forgiveness for sins – Eph 1:7 To heal our sicknesses – Is 53:5 To bring us to God – 1 Peter 3:18 To free us from sin – Rev 1:5-6 To free us from living for ourselves - 2 Cor 5:15

12. Boasting in the Cross Why did Jesus suffer and die? Gal 3:13 Eph 5:2 Rom 5:7-8 Mark 10:45 Eph 1:7 Is 53:5 1 Peter 3:18 Rev 1:5-6 2 Cor 5:15

13. Cultivating Fellowship with Christ 1 John 1:3 Revelation 3:20 Eph 3:14-19 Luke 10 – Mary and Martha

14. Our Goal in Making Disciples Philippians 1:25-26 2 Corinthians 1:24