Following Christ part 2

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Following Christ part 2

• Abundance or Excess?

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Peters Greatest Risk and yours.

• Peter answered him, "We have left everything to
  follow you! What then will there be for us?"
  28Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at
  the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man
  sits on his glorious throne, you who have
  followed me will also sit on twelve thrones,
  judging the twelve tribes of Israel

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Peters Greatest Risk and yours.

• 29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or
  sisters or father or mother or children or fields
  for my sake will receive a hundred times as much
  and will inherit eternal life. 30But many who are
  first will be last, and many who are last will be
  first.
• (Matthew 1927-30)

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With Great RiskComes Great Reward
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What Kind of Reward Are You Looking For?

• I work Hard to provide for my family
• Shouldnt we have the Best?
• Money
• Big House
• Cars
• Expensive Clothes
• Toys, Toys, Toys

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But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who
gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so
confirms his covenant, which he swore to your
forefathers, as it is today.(Deuteronomy
818)
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Dr. Warren Wiersbe

• It is good to have the things that money can
  buy, provided we do not lose the things that
  money cannot buy.

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So What Great Reward Do We Seek?

• 15"If you love me, you will obey what I command.
  16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
  another Counselor to be with you forever 17the
  Spirit of truth 25"All this I have spoken while
  still with you. 26But the Counselor, the Holy
  Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
  will teach you all things and will remind you of
  everything I have said to you. 27Peace I leave
  with you my peace I give you. I do not give to
  you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be
  troubled and do not be afraid.
• (John 1415-17, 25-27)

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7Do not be deceived God cannot be mocked. A man
reaps what he sows. 8The one who sows to please
his sinful nature, from that nature will reap
destruction the one who sows to please the
Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal
life.(Gal 67, 8)
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Life By the Spirit

• 16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not
  gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For
  the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the
  Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the
  sinful nature. They are in conflict with each
  other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But
  if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under
  law.

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Life By the Spirit

• 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
  peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
  faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control.
  Against such things there is no law.
• Gal 516-18, 22, 23)

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Life by the Spiritis the only kind of life
worth living.
I came that they may have life, and have it
abundantly. Jesus (John 1010)