Changed Into His Image

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Session 13
Laboring Together with God
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Knowledge Objectives

• Recognize how the characteristics of the Gambling
  Farmer are far too common in our culture.
• Understand that the danger of the Controlling
  Farmer is not his discipline but his fleshly
  self-dependence.
• Identify the God-dependent self-denial of the
  Trusting Farmer that makes him useful to God.

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Application Objectives

• Respond by identifying areas of self-indulgence
  in your own life.
• Respond by turning from areas of fleshly
  self-control.
• Respond by maintaining a faithful, trusting
  relationship with God that brings great joy to
  both you and God.

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Session 13
Laboring Together with God
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I Corinthians 36,8-9

• I have planted, Apollos watered but God gave
  the increase. . . . Now he that planteth and he
  that watereth are one and every man shall
  receive his own reward according to his own
  labour. For we are labourers together with God.

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I Corinthians 36

• I have planted, Apollos watered but God gave
  the increase.
• Our Part Faithful Farmers
• Gods Part Lord of the Harvest

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3 Kinds of Farmers
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The Gambling Farmer

• He ignores the laws of nature.
• He is the Proverbs sluggard.
• He ignores Gods normal ways of provision.

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Proverbs 105

• He that gathereth in summer is a wise son but
  he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth
  shame.

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Proverbs 1915-16

• Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep and an
  idle soul shall suffer hunger. He that keepeth
  the commandment keepeth his own soul but he that
  despiseth his ways shall die.

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Proverbs 2430-34

• I went by the field of the slothful, and by the
  vineyard of the man void of understanding And,
  lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and
  nettles had covered the face thereof, and the
  stone wall thereof was broken down.

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Proverbs 2430-34

• Then I saw, and considered it well I looked
  upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little
  sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
  hands to sleep So shall thy poverty come as one
  that travelleth and thy want as an armed man.

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Proverbs 204

• The sluggard will not plow by reason of the
  cold therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have
  nothing.

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Proverbs 2125

• The desire of the slothful killeth him for his
  hands refuse to labour.

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Proverbs 2613-16

• The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the
  way a lion is in the streets too dangerous. As
  the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the
  slothful upon his bed too early.

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Proverbs 2613-16

• The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom it
  grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth too
  pushed. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit
  than seven men that can render a reason too
  smart.

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Proverbs 134

• The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath
  nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be
  made fat.

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Proverbs 1227

• The slothful man roasteth not that which he
  took in hunting but the substance of a diligent
  man is precious.

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Proverbs 1519 (Painful life)

• The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of
  thorns but the way of the righteous is made
  plain is a highway.

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Proverbs 189 (Wasteful life)

• He also that is slothful in his work is
  brother to him that is a great waster.

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Proverbs 1026 (Irritating life)

• As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the
  eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

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Hebrews 126-7

• For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
  scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye
  endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with
  sons for what son is he whom the father
  chasteneth not?

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Hebrews 1211

• Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
  joyous, but grievous nevertheless afterward it
  yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness
  unto them which are exercised thereby.

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Dr. Bob Jones Sr.

• The Christian philosophy is a philosophy of
  self-denial, self-control, and self-restraint.
  The satanic philosophy is a philosophy of live as
  you please have what you want dont let anybody
  tell you what to do its your life, you have got
  a right to live it.

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The Controlling Farmer

• He keeps the laws of nature.
• He is driven and controlling?even
  perfectionistic.
• He is intense.
• Pleasing self is at the heart of legalism and of
  slothfulness.

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The Trusting Farmer

• He keeps the laws of nature.
• He can become dependent upon his own disciplined
  habits.
• His outstanding characteristic is the fruit of
  Gods Spirit in his life.

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John 1224-25

• Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn
  of wheat his own ambitions fall into the ground
  and die, it abideth alone but if it die, it
  bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his
  life shall lose it and he that hateth his life
  in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

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Wrap-up
What Do I Do Now?
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What Do I Do Now?

• Take Time to Change
• I Timothy 415,16
• Prepare your soil (Luke 815).
• Stay in the sun (II Cor. 318).
• Remember, God writes out the checks (Phil.
  213).

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What Do I Do Now?

• Take Time to Change
• Take Time to Teach Others
• II Timothy 22
• Small groups
• One-on-one discipleship
• Become a God-loving, Word-filled, ministry-minded
  disciple-maker.