Keys to a Life of Spiritual Impact

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Keys to a Life of Spiritual Impact

• Philippians 212-13
• November 15, 2009

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• 1. The Key of Example

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Phil 212

• 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always
  obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
  more in my absence, work out your salvation with
  fear and trembling

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1 Peter 221

• 21 For you have been called for this purpose,
  since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you
  an example for you to follow in His steps,

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• 2. The Key of Vision

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Phil 212

• 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always
  obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
  more in my absence, work out your salvation with
  fear and trembling

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Phil. 14-6

• 4 always offering prayer with joy in my every
  prayer for you all, 5in view of your
  participation in the gospel from the first day
  until now.

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Phil. 127

• 27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of
  the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and
  see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that
  you are standing firm in one spirit, with one
  mind striving together for the faith of the
  gospel

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• 3. The Key of Integrity

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Phil 212

• 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always
  obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
  more in my absence, work out your salvation with
  fear and trembling

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Phil. 313-14

• 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having
  laid hold of it yet but one thing I do
  forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward
  to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal
  for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ
  Jesus.

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1 Cor. 924-27

• 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race
  all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in
  such a way that you may win. 25Everyone who
  competes in the games exercises self-control in
  all things They then do it to receive a
  perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

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• 26 Therefore I run in such a way, as not without
  aim I box in such a way, as not beating the
  air 27but I discipline my body and make it my
  slave, so that, after I have preached to others,
  I myself will not be disqualified.

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1 Cor. 1558

• 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
  immovable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in
  the Lord.

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2 Peter 110

• 10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent
  to make certain about His calling and choosing
  you for as long as you practice these things,
  you will never stumble

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• 4. The Key of Consequence

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Phil 212

• 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always
  obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
  more in my absence, work out your salvation with
  fear and trembling

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Ps. 211

• 11 Worship the LORD with reverence And rejoice
  with trembling.

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Ps. 119120

• 120 My flesh trembles for fear of You, And I am
  afraid of Your judgments.

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Isa. 662

• 2 "For My hand made all these things, Thus all
  these things came into being," declares the LORD
  "But to this one I will look, To him who is
  humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles
  at My word.

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• 5. The Key of Dependence

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Phil 213

• 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to
  will and to work for His good pleasure.

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Jer. 3133

• 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make
  with the house of Israel after those days,"
  declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them
  and on their heart I will write it and I will be
  their God, and they shall be My people.

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2 Cor. 35

• 5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to
  consider anything as coming from ourselves, but
  our adequacy is from God,

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Gal. 220

• 20"I have been crucified with Christ and it is
  no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and
  the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
  faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave
  Himself up for me.

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• 6. The Key of Influence

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Phil 213

• 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to
  will and to work for His good pleasure.

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Ps 11936

• 36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies And not
  to dishonest gain.

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1 Kings 856-61

• 56 "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to
  His people Israel, according to all that He
  promised not one word has failed of all His good
  promise, which He promised through Moses His
  servant. 57 "May the LORD our God be with us, as
  He was with our fathers may He not leave us or
  forsake us, 58 that He may incline our hearts to
  Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His
  commandments and His statutes and His ordinances,
  which He commanded our fathers. 

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• 59"And may these words of mine, with which I have
  made supplication before the LORD, be near to the
  LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain
  the cause of His servant and the cause of His
  people Israel, as each day requires, 60 so that
  all the peoples of the earth may know that the
  LORD is God there is no one else. 61"Let your
  heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our
  God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His
  commandments, as at this day."

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2 Thess. 111-12

• 11 To this end also we pray for you always, that
  our God will count you worthy of your calling,
  and fulfill every desire for goodness and the
  work of faith with power, 12so that the name of
  our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you
  in Him, according to the grace of our God and the
  Lord Jesus Christ.

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• 7. The Key of Purpose

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Phil 213

• 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to
  will and to work for His good pleasure.

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Heb. 1320-21

• 20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the
  dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the
  blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our
  Lord, 21equip you in every good thing to do His
  will, working in us that which is pleasing in His
  sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory
  forever and ever. Amen.