Spiritual Maturity

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Spiritual Maturity

• Why do we need to grow as Christians?
• Hebrews 21, 1 Corinthians 924-27, 1 Timothy
  411-16,

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• 2 Peter 15-11

• But also for this very reason, giving all
  diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue
  knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to
  self-control perseverance, to perseverance
  godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and
  to brotherly kindness love.

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Spiritual Maturity

• Virtue
• Defined as
• moral excellence goodness righteousness,
  conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and
  ethical principles uprightness

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• Virtue
• Romans 64-13, Ephesians 422-32, Galatians
  519-23

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• Virtue
• Knowledge
• 1 Corinthians 31-3, Hebrews 511-14, Proverbs
  17, 810, 119, 121, Romans 128-32

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Spiritual Maturity

• Virtue
• Knowledge
• Self Control
• Galatians 524-26, 1 Thessalonians 521-22

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Spiritual Maturity

• Virtue
• Knowledge
• Self Control
• Perseverance
• James 510-11, 2 Timothy 45-8

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Spiritual Maturity

• Virtue
• Knowledge
• Self Control
• Perseverance
• Godliness
• 1 Peter 115-16, Matthew 513-16

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Spiritual Maturity

• Virtue
• Knowledge
• Self Control
• Perseverance
• Godliness
• Brotherly Kindness
• 1 John 420-21, James 59,13-16

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Spiritual Maturity

• Virtue
• Knowledge
• Self Control
• Perseverance
• Godliness
• Brotherly Kindness
• Love
• Matthew 1919, 543-48, John 1415

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• Conclusion

• If we do not seek to gain Spiritual Maturity as
  Christians then we will risk drifting as the
  Hebrew brethren, becoming undiscerning as Paul
  warned the Romans, and ultimately becoming
  lukewarm as the church in Sardis in Revelation
  316 whom Jesus said he would vomit out of his
  mouth.