What About After Im A Christian

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What About After Im A Christian?

• Part Two

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Already looked at the facts

• Even for Christians,
• Temptation is present
• Forgiveness is available
• and
• Continues to be available

• Ephesians 28-10
• For by grace you have been saved through faith.
  And this is not your own doing it is the gift of
  God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may
  boast.10 For we are his workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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Keeping a Grip on Grace Requires

• Effort

• Hebrews 611-12
• And we desire each one of you to show the same
  earnestness to have the full assurance of hope
  until the end, 12 so that you may not be
  sluggish, but imitators of those who through
  faith and patience inherit the promises.

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Keeping a Grip on Grace Requires

• Effort
• Strength

• Ephesians 610
• 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the
  strength of his might.
• 1 Peter 411
• 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of
  God whoever serves, as one who serves by the
  strength that God supplies

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Keeping a Grip on Grace Requires

• Revelation 210
• Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold,
  the devil is about to throw some of you into
  prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days
  you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto
  death, and I will give you the crown of life.

• Effort
• Strength
• Courage

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Keeping a Grip on Grace Requires

• Hebrews 1036-39
• For you have need of endurance, so that when you
  have done the will of God you may receive what is
  promised. 37 For, Yet a little while, and the
  coming one will come and will not delay38 but
  my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he
  shrinks back,my soul has no pleasure in him.
• 39 But we are not of those who shrink back and
  are destroyed, but of those who have faith and
  preserve their souls.

• Effort
• Strength
• Courage
• Endurance

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Keeping a Grip on Grace Requires

• 1 John 53
• For this is the love of God, that we keep his
  commandments. And his commandments are not
  burdensome.

• Effort
• Strength
• Courage
• Endurance
• Love

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Keeping a Grip on Grace Requires

• Luke 1428
• For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does
  not first sit down and count the cost, whether he
  has enough to complete it?.

• Effort
• Strength
• Courage
• Endurance
• Love
• Consideration

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Much Help is Available

• 2 Timothy 316-17
• All Scripture is breathed out by God and
  profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
  correction, and for training in
  righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be
  competent, equipped for every good work.

• The scriptures

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Much Help is Available

• 1 Corinthians 1013
• No temptation has overtaken you that is not
  common to man. God is faithful, and he will not
  let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with
  the temptation he will also provide the way of
  escape, that you may be able to endure it.

• The scriptures
• In Deity

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Much Help is Available

• Hebrews 414-16
• Since then we have a great high priest who has
  passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of
  God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we
  do not have a high priest who is unable to
  sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in
  every respect has been tempted as we are, yet
  without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw
  near to the throne of grace, that we may receive
  mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

• The scriptures
• In Deity
• A merciful King

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Much Help is Available

• Romans 826
•  Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
  For we do not know what to pray for as we ought,
  but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with
  groanings too deep for words. 

• The scriptures
• In Deity
• A merciful King
• Holy Spirit

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Much Help is Available

• Matthew 1929
•   And everyone who has left houses or brothers or
  sisters or father or mother or children or lands,
  for my name's sake, will receive a
  hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

• The scriptures
• In Deity
• A merciful King
• Holy Spirit
• A family

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After Becoming a Christian?

• Romans 614
•   For sin will have no dominion over you, since
  you are not under law but under grace.

• Conqueror

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After Becoming a Christian?

• 2 Peter 318
•   But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
  and Savior Jesus Christ

• Conqueror
• Growth

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After Becoming a Christian?

• Romans 81
•   There is therefore now no condemnation for
  those who are in Christ Jesus. 

• Conqueror
• Growth
• Forgiveness

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After Becoming a Christian?

• Philippians 44
•   Rejoice in the Lord always again I will say,
  Rejoice.  

• Conqueror
• Growth
• Forgiveness
• Joy peace

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After Becoming a Christian?

• 1 Timothy 48
•  Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only
  to me but also to all who have loved his
  appearing.

• Conqueror
• Growth
• Forgiveness
• Joy peace
• An eternal crown

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Becoming a Christian We Just Begin to Live

• Much is required
• Much help is provided
• Great rewards are offered

Will you partake?