HOW CHRISTIANS GROW UP

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• You therefore, beloved, since you know this
  beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your
  own steadfastness, being led away with the error
  of the wicked but grow in the grace and
  knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
  Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. (2
  Peter 318)

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GROWING UP

• And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
  prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
  teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the
  work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of
  Christ, till we all come to the unity of the
  faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to
  a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of
  the fullness of Christ that we should no longer
  be children, tossed to and fro and carried about
  with every wind of doctrine,

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• by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness
  of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in
  love, may grow up in all things into Him who is
  the head--Christ-- from whom the whole body,
  joined and knit together by what every joint
  supplies, according to the effective working by
  which every part does its share, causes growth of
  the body for the edifying of itself in love.
  (Eph. 411-16)

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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP
• BY TAKING UP
• BY KEEPING UP
• BY LAYING UP

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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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GROWING UP

• Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone
  desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,
  and take up his cross, and follow Me." (Matt.
  1624)

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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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GROWING UP

• Do not love the world or the things in the world.
  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father
  is not in him. For all that is in the world--the
  lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the
  pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the
  world. And the world is passing away, and the
  lust of it but he who does the will of God
  abides forever. (1 John 215-17)

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• "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the
  whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will
  a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt.
  1626)

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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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• "'These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
  And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is
  far from Me. And in vain they worship Me,
  Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"
  (Matt. 158-9)

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• Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
  doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who
  abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the
  Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and
  does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
  into your house nor greet him for he who greets
  him shares in his evil deeds. (2 John 9-11)

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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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WE GROW UP

• BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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• "Do not think that I came to bring peace on
  earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
  For I have come to 'set a man against his father,
  a daughter against her mother, and a
  daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law' and
  'a man's enemies will be those of his own
  household.' He who loves father or mother more
  than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son
  or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me."
  (Matt. 1034-37)

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WE GROW UP

• BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
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• "And he who does not take his cross and follow
  after Me is not worthy of Me." (Matt. 1038)

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• "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."
  (Rev. 210)

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WE GROW UP

• BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
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GROWING UP

• For the grace of God that brings salvation has
  appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying
  ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
  soberly, righteously, and godly in the present
  age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious
  appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus
  Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might
  redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for
  Himself His own special people, zealous for good
  works. (Titus 211-14)

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WE GROW UP

• BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
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• "I have given them Your word and the world has
  hated them because they are not of the world,
  just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that
  You should take them out of the world, but that
  You should keep them from the evil one. They are
  not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
  Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth."
  (John 1714-17)

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• Since you have purified your souls in obeying the
  truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the
  brethren, love one another fervently with a pure
  heart, having been born again, not of
  corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the
  word of God which lives and abides forever,

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• because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory
  of man as the flower of the grass. The grass
  withers, And its flower falls away, But the word
  of the Lord endures forever." Now this is the
  word which by the gospel was preached to you. (1
  Peter 122-25)

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WE GROW UP

• BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
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• "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we
  eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we
  wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles
  seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you
  need all these things. But seek first the
  kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all
  these things shall be added to you." (Matt.
  631-33)

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WE GROW UP

• BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING STUDY LOVE
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• And let us consider one another in order to stir
  up love and good works, not forsaking the
  assembling of ourselves together, as is the
  manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so
  much the more as you see the Day approaching.
  (Heb. 1024-25)

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WE GROW UP

• BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING STUDY LOVE
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• On the first day of the week let each one of you
  lay something aside, storing up as he may
  prosper, that there be no collections when I
  come. (1 Cor. 162)

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• But this I say He who sows sparingly will also
  reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will
  also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he
  purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of
  necessity for God loves a cheerful giver. (2
  Cor. 96-7)

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WE GROW UP

• BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING DILIGENCE LOVE
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GROWING UP

• Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
  a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
  dividing the word of truth. (2 Tim. 215)

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• 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. For if these things
  are yours and abound, you will be neither barren
  nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
  Christ.

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• For he who lacks these things is shortsighted,
  even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was
  cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren,
  be even more diligent to make your call and
  election sure, for if you do these things you
  will never stumble for so an entrance will be
  supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting
  kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2
  Peter 15-11)

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WE GROW UP

• BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING DILIGENCE LOVE
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GROWING UP
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, but have not love, I have become sounding
brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the
gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my
goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body
to be burned, but have not love, it profits me
nothing. (1 Cor. 131-3)
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• Love suffers long and is kind love does not
  envy love does not parade itself, is not puffed
  up does not behave rudely, does not seek its
  own, is not provoked, thinks no evil does not
  rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth
  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
  things, endures all things. Love never fails. But
  whether there are prophecies, they will fail
  whether there are tongues, they will cease
  whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
  (1 Cor. 134-8)

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• Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you
  know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in
  him. By this we know love, because He laid down
  His life for us. And we also ought to lay down
  our lives for the brethren. (1 John 315-16)

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WE GROW UP

• BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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• Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow
  of wickedness, and receive with meekness the
  implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
  But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
  deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer
  of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
  observing his natural face in a mirror for he
  observes himself, goes away, and immediately
  forgets what kind of man he was.

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• But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty
  and continues in it, and is not a forgetful
  hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be
  blessed in what he does. (James 121-25)

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• Do all things without complaining and disputing,
  that you may become blameless and harmless,
  children of God without fault in the midst of a
  crooked and perverse generation, among whom you
  shine as lights in the world, holding fast the
  word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of
  Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in
  vain. (Phil. 214-16)

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WE GROW UP

• BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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• For whatever things were written before were
  written for our learning, that we through the
  patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have
  hope. (Rom. 154)

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• And we desire that each one of you show the same
  diligence to the full assurance of hope until the
  end, that you do not become sluggish, but
  imitate those who through faith and patience
  inherit the promises. For when God made a
  promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no
  one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, "Surely
  blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will
  multiply you."

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• And so, after he had patiently endured, he
  obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by the
  greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them
  an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to
  show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the
  immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an
  oath,

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• that by two immutable things, in which it is
  impossible for God to lie, we might have strong
  consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold
  of the hope set before us. This hope we have as
  an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
  and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
  where the forerunner has entered for us, even
  Jesus, having become High Priest forever
  according to the order of Melchizedek. (Heb.
  611-20)

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• Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
  sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace
  that is to be brought to you at the revelation of
  Jesus Christ as obedient children, not
  conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in
  your ignorance but as He who called you is holy,
  you also be holy in all your conduct, because it
  is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." (1 Peter
  113-16)

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WE GROW UP

• BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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• "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth,
  where moth and rust destroy and where thieves
  break in and steal but lay up for yourselves
  treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
  destroys and where thieves do not break in and
  steal. For where your treasure is, there your
  heart will be also. (Matt. 619-21)

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• Command those who are rich in this present age
  not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain
  riches but in the living God, who gives us richly
  all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they
  be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to
  share, storing up for themselves a good
  foundation for the time to come, that they may
  lay hold on eternal life. (1 Tim. 617-19)

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WE GROW UP

• BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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• Blessed is the man who endures temptation for
  when he has been approved, he will receive the
  crown of life which the Lord has promised to
  those who love Him. (James 112)

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• Do not fear any of those things which you are
  about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to
  throw some of you into prison, that you may be
  tested, and you will have tribulation ten days.
  Be faithful until death, and I will give you the
  crown of life. (Rev. 210 )

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