Maturity in Soulsaving

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Maturity in Soul-saving
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We Like Rescuers
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Maturity in Soul-saving

• James 519-20
• My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from
  the truth and someone brings him back, let him
  know that whoever brings back a sinner from his
  wandering will save his soul from death and will
  cover a multitude of sins.

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Straying From the Truth

• Any among you
• Stray wander, gradually moving away
• The Truth

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any
one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls
away from the living God (Hebrews 3.12-13).
For this reason we must pay much closer
attention to what we have heard, so that we do
not drift away from it (Hebrews 2.1).
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Turn Them Back

• Understanding the danger
• Death (20)
• Worse than before saved (2 Peter 220-22)
• No more sacrifice for sins (Hebrews 1026-31)

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Turn Them Back

• Understanding the danger
• Turning back the straying

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Turn Them Back

• Understanding the danger
• Turning back the straying
• I must seek them (Matthew 18.15-17)

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Turn Them Back

• Understanding the danger
• Turning back the straying
• I must seek them (Matthew 18.15-17)
• I must be careful (Galatians 6.1-2)

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Turn Them Back

• Understanding the danger
• Turning back the straying
• I must seek them (Matthew 18.15-17)
• I must be careful (Galatians 6.1-2)
• I must point them back to the truth
  (2 Timothy 4.2-4)

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Turn Them Back

• Understanding the danger
• Turning back the straying
• Restoring Relationship (2 Corinthians 2.6-8)

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You May Be Perfect And Complete

• Be a bond-servant
• Endure trials and temptations
• Overcome favoritism
• Living by faith
• Speech
• Wisdom

• Peace
• Planning
• Money
• Patiently enduring
• Prayer
• Soul-saving

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The Soul You Save May Be Your Own