Sermon Outlines . Volume 05 | Issue 01

What to Do with Yourself

By Vance Havner

We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead (2 Cor. 1:9).

The Scriptures speak of denying self (Matt. 16:24), judging one’s self (1 Cor. 11:31), the crucifixion of self (Rom. 6:6; Gal. 5:24).

  1. In this day of self-exaltation the Bible teaches self-execution. Not that we execute ourselves but that we submit to the death of self by the hand of God.
  2. Paul witnessed his own execution, but there came forth a new Paul, “I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.”

What to do with yourself? Agree and submit to your execution!

(Day by Day with Vance Havner. Baker Book House, 1983. p. 55-56; formerly printed by Fleming H. Revell Company, 1953.)