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• Let your light so shine before men, that they
  may see your good works and glorify your Father
  in heaven.
• (Matthew 516)

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How is your light? Is it all aglow? Or has it
burned out? Has it never been lit? You have to
light it before it will shine. And, once you
light it, you must let it shine. You light it by
becoming a child of God. Three things are
necessary to let it shine.
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How to Let Your Light Shine

• Keep your faith growing
• Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
• But without faith it is impossible to please
  Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He
  is, and that He is a rewarder of those who
  diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 116)

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Keep Your FaithGrowing

• It is possible for ones faith to grow
  exceedingly.
• We are bound to thank God always for you,
  brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith
  grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of
  you all abounds toward each other. (2
  Thessalonians 13)

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Keep Your FaithGrowing

• The apostles asked Jesus to increase their
  faith.
• And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our
  faith. (Luke 175)
• Surely, we can ask Him to increase ours!

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Keep Your FaithGrowing

• It is necessary to study Gods word.
• So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
  the word of God. (Romans 1017)
• Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
  a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
  dividing the word of truth. (2 Timothy 215)

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Keep Your HopeGlowing

• Hope is desire, plus expectation.
• For we know that the whole creation groans and
  labors with birth pangs together until now. Not
  only that, but we also who have the first fruits
  of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
  ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the
  redemption of our body. For we were saved in this
  hope, but hope that is seen is not hope for why
  does one still hope for what he sees? But if we
  hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for
  it with perseverance. (Romans 822-25)

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Keep Your HopeGlowing

• Hope causes us to rejoice.
• Be kindly affectionate to one another with
  brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one
  another not lagging in diligence, fervent in
  spirit, serving the Lord rejoicing in hope,
  patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in
  prayer distributing to the needs of the saints,
  given to hospitality.. (Romans 1210-13)

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Keep Your HopeGlowing

• We are heirs according to the hope of eternal
  life.
• But when the kindness and the love of God our
  Savior toward man appeared, not by works of
  righteousness which we have done, but according
  to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of
  regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit
  (Titus 34,5)

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Keep Your HopeGlowing

• We are heirs according to the hope of eternal
  life.
• Whom He poured out on us abundantly through
  Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been
  justified by His grace we should become heirs
  according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus
  36,7)

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Keep Your HopeGlowing

• We are heirs according to the hope of eternal
  life.
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has
  begotten us again to a living hope through the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
  inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that
  does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
  who are kept by the power of God through faith
  for salvation ready to be revealed in the last
  time.
  (1 Peter 13-5)

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Keep Your HopeGlowing

• Set your hope on the Lords return.
• 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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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love fulfills the law.
• Owe no one anything except to love one another,
  for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
  (Romans 138)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love fulfills the law.
• For the commandments, You shall not commit
  adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not
  steal, You shall not bear false witness, You
  shall not covet, and if there is any other
  commandment, are all summed up in this saying,
  namely, You shall love your neighbor as
  yourself. Love does no harm to a neighbor
  therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
  (Romans 139,10)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love the brethren.
• 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. (1 Peter 122)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love the brethren.
• And above all things have fervent love for one
  another, for love will cover a multitude of sins.
  (1 Peter 48)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love is indispensable.
• Though I speak with the tongues of men and of
  angels, but have not love, I have become sounding
  brass or a clanging cymbal... (1 Corinthians
  131)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love is indispensable.
• 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...
  (1 Corinthians
  132)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love is indispensable.
• 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 Corinthians 133)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love is indispensable.
• 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.
  (1 Corinthians 134,5)

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Keep Your HopeFlowing

• Love is indispensable.
• Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in
  the truth bears all things, believes all things,
  hopes all things, endures all things.
  (1 Corinthians 136,7)

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How to Let Your Light Shine

• Is your faith growing?
• Is your hope glowing?
• Is your love flowing?
• If not, then your light
  is not aglow
• It has either gone out
  or never been lit.
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