Resolutions

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Resolutions

• I Resolve
• to
• Glorify God!!

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2012
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Top Common Resolutionshttp//www.usa.gov/Citize
n/Topics/New_Years_Resolutions.shtml

• Drink Less Alcohol
• Get a better education
• Get a better job
• Get Fit
• Lose weight
• Manage debt
• Manage stress
• Quit smoking
• Reduce, reuse and recycle
• Save money
• Take a trip
• Volunteer to help others

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I Resolve To Glorify God!

• Get rid of hindrances, Break bad habits
• Addressed neglected duties
• More time in Bible study
• More time in prayer
• Attend more regularly
• Visit the sick and shut-ins more
• Get more involved in the church
• Get to know brethren better
• Increase my talents
• Be more like my Savior
• In righteousness
• In holiness
• In love

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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean
not on your own understanding In all your ways
acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your
paths.
Proverbs 35,6
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Do not be wise in your own eyes Fear the LORD
and depart from evil. It will be health to your
flesh, And strength to your bones.
Proverbs 37,8
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Through Your precepts I get understanding
Therefore I hate every false way.
Psalm 119104
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my
path.
Psalm 119105
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
I have sworn and confirmed That I will keep Your
righteous judgments.
Psalm 119106
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Not that I have already attained, or am already
perfected but I press on, that I may lay hold of
that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of
me.
Philippians 312
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Brethren, I do not count myself to have
apprehended but one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind and reaching forward to
those things which are ahead.
Philippians 313
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
I press toward the goal for the prize of the
upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 314
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.
Philippians 413
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I Resolve To Glorify God!

• Focus should not be on WHAT we
  will DOBut
  WHO WE WILL BE!
• Matthew 2325,26
• Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
  hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside
  of the cup and
  dish, but inside they are
  full of extortion and self-indulgence.
  Blind Pharisee, first
  cleanse the inside of the
  cup and dish, that the outside
  of them may be clean also.

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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the
flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind,
for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased
from sin, that he no longer should live the rest
of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men,
but for the will of God.
1 Peter 41,2
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in
doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in
lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking
parties, and abominable idolatries.
1 Peter 43
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
In regard to these, they think it strange that
you do not run with them in the same flood of
dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give
an account to Him who is ready to judge the
living and the dead.
1 Peter 44,5
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
For this reason the gospel was preached also to
those who are dead, that they might be judged
according to men in the flesh, but live according
to God in the spirit.
1 Peter 46
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
But the end of all things is at hand therefore
be serious and watchful in your prayers. And
above all things have fervent love for one
another, for love will cover a multitude of
sins.
1 Peter 47,8
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
As each one has received a gift, minister it to
one another, as good stewards of the manifold
grace of God.
1 Peter 49,10
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I Resolve to Glorify God!
If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles
of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as
with the ability which God supplies, that in all
things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever
and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 411
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Arm Yourselves With the Mind of Christ41
Arm - equip oneself with the same insight -
(BDAG) - Aorist Imperative decisive action at a
given point Put on the attitude and mindset of
Jesus Faith, Courage, Hope - (1 Peter 318
Philippians. 25-10 Romans
1312-14 Proverbs 237) Cease from sin - If our
attitude and thinking is like Jesus' - then doing
what we ought will naturally follow (Hebrews
57-9 121,2 Ezekiel 1831 Romans 121-3
Ephesians 422-24 Colossians 31-10)
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Not Living to Please Men But GodI
Peter 42,3
Do Not live for self or man (lewdness, lusts,
drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and
abominable idolatries) such living a waste of
time and life! Ephesians 417-24 58-18 Resolve
to strive to please God in all we do Unwavering
commitment to Him and His church! (Ecclesiastes
1213 Romans 121,2 Colossians 317 1
Thessalonians 43 1 John 215-17)
From This Day Forward!
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Willing to Suffer Reproach From the Ungodly 44-6
They think it strange old acquaintances are
now persecutors. A changed life provokes
hostility from those who reject the gospel!
(Matthew 510-12 Acts 1345 1 Peter 212
316) They will give an account.
(2 Corinthians 510 2 Thessalonians 17-10
2 Peter 212 Jude 10) The gospel gives true
lifeThe ungodly may condemnbut God gives us
life! (1 Peter 211 319 Hebrews 1113)
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Taking My Spiritual Duties Very Seriously47-11
Ready for judgment (John 528,29 1248,49 2
Peter 39-11) Serious and watchful in prayer.
(1 Peter 58 Matthew 2513
Ephesians 618 Colossians 42) Fervent love(1
Peter 122 Colossians 314 1 Thessalonians
312 Proverbs 1012 James 520) Be hospitable
without grumbling-(Romans 1213 Hebrews 132
Philippians 214) Diligent in service as good
stewards(Romans 126-8 1 Corinthians 42)
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I Resolve To Glorify God!

• The Alien Sinner

• Already a Christian

• Have you rendered obedience to the gospel of
  Christ?
• HearRomans 1017
• BelieveHebrews 116
• RepentActs 1730
• ConfessRomans 109,10
• Baptized-Galatians 326,27

• Have you armed yourself with the mind of Christ?
• Are you living to please God or men?
• Are you willing to suffer reproach from the
  ungodly?
• Are you taking your spiritual duties seriously?