The Amazing Race

Galatians 2:20   (English Standard Version)

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Additional Scriptures used in this sermon:

Galatians 5:24
²⁴ And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Romans 6:2-4   (New International Version)
² By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³ Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Romans 6:6-9   (New International Version)
⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. ⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

Romans 6:11   (New International Version)
¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:17
¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Matthew 6:33
³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Mark 12:30-31   (New International Version)
³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  There is no commandment greater than these.”