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Overcoming Temptation (Father's Assistance): Way of Escape

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

A Disciple: Gives Christ Preeminence in All Things

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

The Bread: Picture of Christ’s Broken Body

“For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take eat: this is my body which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.”

The Cup: Picture of Christ’s Shed Blood

“After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Reliance: Holy Spirit’s Baptism

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink of one Spirit.”

Reliance: God’s Wisdom and Power: (Omniscience & Omnipotence - Divine Nature)

“For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”

Anticipating Christ’s Return: Motivating Hope

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

Life Verse: Johnnie Brewer, Pastor, Maryland, USA

Day of Christian Worship: Collecting an Offering

“Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”

Reliance: Holy Spirit’s Enlightenment

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

Christians: Judgment Seat Accountability

“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.”

Life Verse: Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), Irish Missionary to India

Christians: Judgment Seat Accountability

“If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”

Reliance: Holy Spirit’s Indwelling

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

Overcoming Pride of Life: Viewing God as Sovereign

“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”

A Servant’s Heart: Faithful in Ministry

“Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.”

Inappropriate Judgment: Wrong Judge

“But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self."

Inappropriate Judgment: Wrong Time

“Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Holiness: Choosing the Eternal Over the Temporal

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

Fruit of the Holy Spirit: Godly Temperance (Self Control)

“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”

Fruit of the Holy Spirit: Godly Temperance (Self Control)

“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”

Personal Restoration: God’s Forgiveness & Cleansing

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Overcoming Worldliness: Loving the Father Drives Out Love of the World

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

Loving the Brethren: Evidence of Being a Christian

“”We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.”

Loving the Brethren: Christ Our Model

“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”

Being Godly: In Our Compassion

“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”

Prayer Answered: By Asking in Obedience

“And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”

Anticipating Christ’s Return: Purifying Hope

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”

Law's Witness to Salvation: Objective Standard for Sin

“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”

Fruit of the Holy Spirit: Godly Love

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

Reliance: God’s Love for Us (Moral Character)

“We love him, because he first loved us.”

Overcoming Temptation (Father's Assistance): His Indwelling Presence

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

Fruit of the Holy Spirit: Godly Love

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”

Loving the Lord: Demonstrated by Obedience

“By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”

Overcoming Worldliness: Faith Gives Victory

“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

Life Verse: William Penn (1644-1718) Founded Pennsylvania, Philosopher, England

Holiness: Living in Purity Before a Holy God

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”

God's Provision for Sin: Christ's Sacrificial Blood

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:”

Living Word of God: Gives Spiritual Regeneration

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

In Christ: Heavenly Inheritance

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,”

Persecution Faithfulness Rewarded: Future Glory

“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried in the fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”

Overcoming Lust of the Flesh: Abstaining from Fleshly Desires

“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

Fruit of the Holy Spirit: Godly Goodness

“Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”

Our Relationship to Governmental Leaders: Be in Submission & Obey

“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”

Response to God in Persecution: Christ Our Model

“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.”

Living Word of God: Give Spiritual Growth

“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.”

Wives: Loving Submission

“Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;”

Reliance: God’s Faithfulness (Moral Character)

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”

God’s Provision for Sin: Christ Our Substitute

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

Husbands: Giving Honor to the Wife

“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

Loving the Brethren: Our Calling in Christ

“Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.”

Response to God in Persecution: Rejoice

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.”

Response to God in Persecution: Glorify (Praise)

“Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.”