Spiritual Discipline

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Spiritual Discipline
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Spiritual Discipline
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Life compared to a Race

• (1 Cor 924-27 NKJV) Do you not know that those
  who run in a race all run, but one receives the
  prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
  25 And everyone who competes for the prize is
  temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain
  a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable
  crown.

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Life compared to a Race

• (1 Cor 924-27 NKJV 26 Therefore I run thus
  not with uncertainty. Thus I fight not as one
  who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body
  and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have
  preached to others, I myself should become
  disqualified.

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Be Strong

• (Heb 1212-13 NKJV) Therefore strengthen the
  hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13
  and make straight paths for your feet, so that
  what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be
  healed.

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What Can We Do

• Encourage and help each other.

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What Can We Do

• Encourage and help each other.
• Maybe we need to check our devotional life our
  reading prayers.

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Be Careful what we see

• (Prov 425-27 NKJV) Let your eyes look straight
  ahead, And your eyelids look right before you.
  26 Ponder the path of your feet, And let all
  your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the
  right or the left Remove your foot from evil.

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Exercise self-control

• (1 Cor 925 NASB) And everyone 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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Even Spend to help you.

• Maybe it is a new Bible.

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Even Spend to help you.

• Maybe it is a new Bible.
• Maybe it is a Bible lectureship or retreat.

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Even Spend to help you.

• Maybe it is a new Bible.
• Maybe it is a Bible lectureship or retreat.
• Maybe it is a book , Bible, or something else to
  encourage someone in the Christian life, or to
  encourage one to become a Christian.

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Take Charge of Life

• (1 Cor 927 NKJV) But I discipline my body and
  bring it into subjection, lest, when I have
  preached to others, I myself should become
  disqualified.

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Godliness Honor for God

• (1 Tim 47-8 NKJV) But reject profane and old
  wives' fables, and exercise yourself toward
  godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profits a
  little, but godliness is profitable for all
  things, having promise of the life that now is
  and of that which is to come.

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Godliness

• e??seße?a eusebeia
• Thayer Definition
• 1) reverence, respect
• 2) piety towards God, godliness

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A Promise

• e?pa??e??a epaggelia
• Thayer Definition
• 1) announcement
• 2) promise
• 2a) the act of promising, a promise given or to
  be given
• 2b) a promised good or blessing

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Compare now to then

• (Rom 818 NKJV) For I consider that the
  sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
  be compared with the glory which shall be
  revealed in us.

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Paul Suffered Much

• (2 Cor 1123-28 NASB) Are they servants of
  Christ? (I speak as if insane) I more so in far
  more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten
  times without number, often in danger of death.
  24 Five times I received from the Jews
  thirty-nine lashes. 25 Three times I was beaten
  with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was
  shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in
  the deep.

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Paul Suffered Much

• (2 Cor 1123-28 NASB) 26 I have been on
  frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers,
  dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen,
  dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city,
  dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea,
  dangers among false brethren

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Paul Suffered Much

• (2 Cor 1123-28 NASB) 27 I have been in labor
  and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in
  hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold
  and exposure. 28 Apart from such external
  things, there is the daily pressure upon me of
  concern for all the churches.

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Our light affliction

• (2 Cor 416-18 NKJV) Therefore we do not lose
  heart. Even though our outward man is perishing,
  yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
  17 For our light affliction, which is but for a
  moment, is working for us a far more exceeding
  and eternal weight of glory,

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Our light affliction

• (2 Cor 416-18 NKJV) 18 while we do not look at
  the things which are seen, but at the things
  which are not seen. For the things which are seen
  are temporary, but the things which are not seen
  are eternal.

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Let us run

• (Heb 121-4 NKJV) Therefore we also, since we
  are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
  let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
  so easily ensnares us, and let us run with
  endurance the race that is set before us,

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Looking unto Jesus

• (Heb 121-4 NKJV) 2 looking unto Jesus, the
  author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
  that was set before Him endured the cross,
  despising the shame, and has sat down at the
  right hand of the throne of God.

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Looking unto Jesus

• (Heb 121-4 NKJV) 3 For consider Him who
  endured such hostility from sinners against
  Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in
  your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to
  bloodshed, striving against sin.

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Are You Ready?

• Have you had your sins washed away by the blood
  of the Lamb?

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Are You Ready?

• Have you had your sins washed away by the blood
  of the Lamb?
• Will you meet the conditions for a home with Him
  eternally?