15 Dec OMMA Apologetic (5 of 14)
Our Mission at OMMA is:
“TO CHANGE LIVES FOR GOD’S GLORY, USING CHRIST-CENTERED MARTIAL ARTS.”
This series of 14 blog posts seeks to define what we mean by glorifying God and what that looks like in our lives as a follower of Christ and what it looks like in the activities we participate in within our OMMA community.
Thanks for reading!
Marco
FIVE (5 of 14): To please God and return to His purposes for our lives is to first have the nature of God restored in us through the new birth.
The Bible tells us that “without faith, it is impossible to please God.” (Hebrews 11:6) When we are “born-again,” through faith in Jesus Christ, the very character of God is infused into our lives via the indwelling Holy Spirit. Coming to Christ and then leading others to Christ glorifies God because of this. This is entirely a work of God, by His grace. We have no part in this, but are recipients of the free gift of God. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind but now I see.”
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
– John 3:6
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.”
– 2 C o r i n t h i a n s 5 : 1 7
“For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”
– 2 Peter 1:4
“In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation – having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.”
– Ephesians 1:13
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
– Ephesians 2:8-9
“He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
– Titus 3:5-7
Keep Fighting the Good Fight!
Blessings,
Marco
OMMA Founder/Senior Instructor
Yondan – 4th Degree Black Belt
Article on “You Must be Born Again.”
https://www.ligonier.org/blog/you-must-be-born-again/
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