Going the Second Mile

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Going the Second Mile

• And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with
  him two.
• Matthew 541

2
Luke 923

• Then He said to them all, If anyone desires
  to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take
  up his cross daily,and follow Me.
• Christ challenges you to go beyond what is
  expected. Go the second mile in your service to
  God and others even your enemies!

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Going the Second Mile

• With Your Family
• Ephesians 64 Titus 24-5 Ephesians 61-2

4
Ephesians 64

• And you, fathers, do not provoke your children
  to wrath, but bring them up in the training and
  admonition of the Lord.
• Men Are you leading your family to Christ? Do
  you shower your wife and children with your love
  and attention? Do you nurture them in Gods Way?

5
Titus 24-5

• That they admonish the young women
  to love their husbands, to love their children, 5
  to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good,
  obedient to their own husbands, that the word of
  God may not be blasphemed.
• Ladies do you do the bare minimum in keeping
  your home? Do you show the love and attention to
  your husband and children that they need to
  thrive?

6
Ephesians 61-2

• Children, obey your parents in the
  Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor your father
  and mother, which is the first commandment with
  promise.
• Children Do you do more than expected? Or the
  bare minimum required of you by your parents? Do
  you go beyond simple obedience, and honor them?

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Going the Second Mile

• With Your Family
• Ephesians 64 Titus 24-5 Ephesians 61-2
• With Your Job
• Ecclesiastes 910 1 Peter 218

8
Ecclesiastes 910

• Whatever your hand finds to do, do
  it with your might for there is no work
  or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave
  where you are going.
• Do you work hard only when others are watching?
  Or are you diligent in your work!

9
1 Peter 218

• Servants, be submissive to your
  masters with all fear, not only to the good and
  gentle, but also to the harsh.
• Notice that this integrity is required whether
  the master (employer) is good or bad! It does
  not change what God requires of you.

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Going the Second Mile

• With Your Family
• Ephesians 64 Titus 24-5 Ephesians 61-2
• With Your Job
• Ecclesiastes 910 1 Peter 218
• With Your Brethren
• Colossians 312-13

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Colossians 312-13

• Therefore, as the elect of God, holy
  and beloved, put on tender mercies,
  kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering
  13bearing with one another, and forgiving one
  another, if anyone has a complaint against
  another even as Christ forgave you, so you also
  must do.
• Imagine the strength of this congregation if
  every member determined to go the second mile!

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Going the Second Mile

• With Your Family
• Ephesians 64 Titus 24-5 Ephesians 61-2
• With Your Job
• Ecclesiastes 910 1 Peter 218
• With Your Brethren
• Colossians 312-13
• With The Lost
• Acts 81,4 Luke 1423

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Acts 81, 4

• Now Saul was consenting to his
  death.  At that time a great persecution arose
  against the church which was at Jerusalem and
  they were all scattered throughout the regions of
  Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
• 4 Therefore those who were scattered went
  everywhere preaching the word.

14
Luke 1423

• Then the master said to the servant, Go
  out into the highways and hedges, and
  compel them to come in, that my house may be
  filled.
• You would go the second mile to save someone from
  physical danger Will you do so to save them from
  spiritual danger?

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Going the Second Mile

• With Your Family
• Ephesians 64 Titus 24-5 Ephesians 61-2
• With Your Job
• Ecclesiastes 910 1 Peter 218
• With Your Brethren
• Colossians 312-13
• With The Lost
• Acts 81,4 Luke 1423
• With Your Enemies
• Matthew 544-45

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Matthew 544-45

• But I say to you, love your enemies, bless
  those who curse you, do good to those who
  hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use
  you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of
  your Father in heaven for He makes His sun rise
  on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on
  the just and on the unjust.
• Yes, it is required of you, evenwith your
  enemies, to go the second mile!

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Christ Went the Second Mile
Philippians 25-8

• For You!

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Philippians 25-8

• Let this mind be in you which was also
  in Christ Jesus, 6who, being in the form of
  God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with
  God, 7but made Himself of no reputation, taking
  the form of a bondservant, and coming in the
  likeness of men. 8And being found in appearance
  as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient
  to the point of death, even the death of the
  cross.
• Will you do the same for Him?