Endure Hardness

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Led by Eric Gintert

2 Timothy 2:1-4, 15

• Be strong  in the grace (true grace) in Christ Jesus.
• Endure hardness as a good soldier in Christ because as you share that grace, you'll be buffeted.
• We've been chosen to be soldiers to please Him who chose you.
• There is a right way and a wrong way to divide the truth; you must be in the Word to do it rightly. 

Do I give equal time to Jesus as I give to the world?
Did I give more time to God than Sodom and Gomorrah gave to God?
THERE IS A FIGHT! SO, ENDURE AS A GOOD SOLDIER!

1 Peter 2:11

• Abstain from fleshlly lussts, which war against our soul; we're pilgrims and strangers in this earth.
• Our conversation (lifestyle) is to be honest among the gentiles that God may be glorified in the nations 

1 Peter 3:15

• Be sanctified (set apart)  in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every person who asks a reason of the hope within you.
• If you love something above all else, everyone around you will know what or who it is that you love.
• How do you have a good conscience if you're not living godly in Christ Jesus?
• Your good conscience makes them ashamed that they accuse you falsely.

 

     

Are these "Christian"?
Are these things true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report? (Philippians 4:8)
Are vampires biblical?
Is it okay to sing 4-letter curse words in a "Christian" song... even if it's just role playing?
Is it good to cheer on the bad guy who used to be "good" but turned dark? (Isaiah 5:20)

1 Thessalonians 5:16-22

• We're quenching the spirit when we fill our eyes, ears, and minds with filth.
• Hold fast that which is GOOD (in God's eyes, not ours).
• Abstain from ALL appearance of evil!

1 Thessalonians 4:3

• This is the will of God... abstain from fornication -- not just physical fornication, but spiritual fornication against God. Like Solomon who fornicated against God by building temples and idols for a woman.

Acts 15:18-19, 29

• If you keep yourself from the things that take you from God, ye shall do well.

1 Timothy 4:1-5

• In the latter times some will depart from the faith, because they will give heed to seducing spirits. The spirits will have a "Christian" label that will deceive many by speaking lies and hypocrisy, knowing that they're lying to satisfy their lusts.
• We must be sanctified by the Word and prayer.

Colossians 3:5-9

• Put to death you members in the earth.
• This is what the lost are doing, so why are you doing these things also.
• Put off the old man and put on the new man, being renewed in the knowledge of Christ.

Philemon 6

• The communication of thy faith should be effectual by acknowledging every good thing in Christ Jesus

Ephesians 4:29-30

• Let no corrupt communication come from your mouth, but that which is edifying.
• Don't shame the Spirit but remember his grace and mercy

1 Corinthians 15:33

• Evil communication corrupts good manners.
• Don't be deceived by Hollywood... it does effect you.
• The boys who killed 13 people at Columbine High School where fans of the 1994 rated-R movie Natural Born Killers. The code name for their evil plan was NBK.
• James Holmes, man who killed 12 people in Aurora, CO movie theater where The Dark Knight Rises was showing, believed he was the Joker from the Batman movie.

  1 John 2:1-3

• This does not mean that we don't sin... we have a new relationship with Jesus and sin.

Romans 1:21-25

• These go so far from God that He gives them over to reprobate minds.

2 Thessalonians 3:13-15

• BE NOT WEARY IN WELL DOING!
• If any Christian be found walking disorderly, don't associate with them... but count them as brothers and rebuke them.

Matthew 6:11

• Give us this day our daily bread, the Word of God, we need it every day. He didn't say "our Sunday bread" or "our weekly bread".

Prayer Requests
Penny W.  -  traveling home tomorrow
Pray for rain... in God's acceptable time for His glory