Continual Christianity

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Continual Christianity

• An Every Day Religion

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Continual Christianity

• Introduction
• Some religions believe Christianity is a
  bi-annual religion (Easter, Christmas)
• Others view it as a weekly religion (Sunday only)
• Some Christian brethren think it is a three times
  a week (checkmark) religion.
• However, the Bible clearly shows that
  Christianity is a daily religion

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Continual Christianity

• Open Hearts
• Acts 1711
• These were more fair-minded than those in
  Thessalonica, in that they received the word with
  all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily
  to find out whether these things were so.
• with all readiness of mind (KJV)receivedwith
  all eagerness (ESV)

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Continual Christianity

• Open Hearts
• Acts 1711
• Mk. 420
• But these are the ones sown on good ground,
  those who hear the word, accept it, and bear
  fruit some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a
  hundred.
• Lk. 815
• But the ones that fell on the good ground are
  those who, having heard the word with a noble and
  good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

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Continual Christianity

• Study/Be Diligent
• 2 Tim. 215
• Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
  a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
  dividing the word of truth.
• Study (KJV)
• Do your best to present yourself to God as one
  approved (ESV)

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Continual Christianity

• Study/Be Diligent
• 2 Tim. 215
• 2 Pet. 110-11
• 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.

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Continual Christianity

• Study/Be Diligent
• 2 Tim. 215
• 2 Pet. 110-11
• Acts 1711
• These were more fair-minded than those in
  Thessalonica, in that they received the word with
  all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily
  to find out whether these things were so.

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Continual Christianity

• Study/Be Diligent
• 2 Tim. 215
• 2 Pet. 110-11
• Acts 1711
• 2 Cor. 135
• Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the
  faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know
  yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?unless
  indeed you are disqualified.

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Continual Christianity

• Study/Be Diligent
• 2 Tim. 215
• 2 Pet. 110-11
• Acts 1711
• 2 Cor. 135
• 1 Tim. 413, 15-16
• Till I come, give attention to reading, to
  exhortation, to doctrine
• Meditate on these things give yourself entirely
  to them, that your progress may be evident to
  all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine.
  Continue in them, for in doing this you will save
  both yourself and those who hear you.

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Continual Christianity

• Study/Be Diligent
• 2 Tim. 215
• 2 Pet. 110-11
• Acts 1711
• 2 Cor. 135
• 1 Tim. 413, 15-16
• Phil. 48
• Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
  whatever things are noble, whatever things are
  just, whatever things are pure, whatever things
  are lovely, whatever things are of good report,
  if there is any virtue and if there is anything
  praiseworthymeditate on these things.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Others
• 2 Tim. 22
• And the things that you have heard from me among
  many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who
  will be able to teach others also.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Others
• 2 Tim. 22
• Acts 2020
• how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but
  proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and
  from house to house,

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Others
• 2 Tim. 22
• Acts 2020
• 1 Tim. 46
• If you instruct the brethren in these things,
  you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ,
  nourished in the words of faith and of the good
  doctrine which you have carefully followed.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Others
• 2 Tim. 22
• Acts 2020
• 1 Tim. 46
• Acts 542
• And daily in the temple, and in every house,
  they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus
  as the Christ.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Others
• 2 Tim. 22
• Acts 2020
• 1 Tim. 46
• Acts 542
• 1 Tim. 412
• Let no one despise your youth, but be an example
  to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in
  spirit, in faith, in purity.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Others
• 2 Tim. 22
• Acts 2020
• 1 Tim. 46
• Acts 542
• 1 Tim. 412
• Phil. 49
• The things which you learned and received and
  heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of
  peace will be with you.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Others
• 2 Tim. 22
• Acts 2020
• 1 Tim. 46
• Acts 542
• 1 Tim. 412
• Phil. 49
• 1 Pet. 31-2
• Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own
  husbands, that even if some do not obey the word,
  they, without a word, may be won by the conduct
  of their wives, when they observe your chaste
  conduct accompanied by fear.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Our Children
• Eph. 64
• And you, fathers, do not provoke your children
  to wrath, but bring them up in the training and
  admonition of the Lord.
• nurture and admonition (KJV)
• discipline and instruction (ESV)

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Our Children
• Eph. 64
• Instructive
• Deut. 64-9
• Hear, O Israel The LORD our God, the LORD is
  one!You shall love the LORD your God with all
  your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
  strength. And these words which I command you
  today shall be in your heart. You shall teach
  them diligently to your children, and shall talk
  of them when you sit in your house, when you walk
  by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise
  up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand,
  and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
  You shall write them on the doorposts of your
  house and on your gates.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Our Children
• Eph. 64
• Instructive
• Deut. 64-9
• Prov. 226
• Train up a child in the way he should go,And
  when he is old he will not depart from it.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Our Children
• Eph. 64
• Instructive
• Deut. 64-9
• Prov. 226
• Gen. 1819
• For I have known him, in order that he may
  command his children and his household after him,
  that they keep the way of the LORD, to do
  righteousness and justice, that the LORD may
  bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Our Children
• Eph. 64
• Instructive
• Deut. 64-9
• Prov. 226
• Gen. 1819
• Josh. 2415
• And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD,
  choose for yourselves this day whom you will
  serve, whether the gods which your fathers served
  that were on the other side of the River, or the
  gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.
  But as for me and my house, we will serve the
  LORD.

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Continual Christianity

• Teach Our Children
• Eph. 64
• Instructive Deut. 64-9 Prov. 226 Gen. 1819
  Josh. 2415
• Corrective
• Prov. 1324 1918 2030 2215 2313-14
  2915,17
• Heb. 125-11
• For whom the LORD loves He chastensIf you
  endure chastening, God deals with you as with
  sonsBut if you are without chastening, of which
  all have become partakers, then you are
  illegitimate (bastards, KJV) and not sonswe paid
  them respectNow no chastening seems to be joyful
  for the present, but painful nevertheless,
  afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of
  righteousness to those who have been trained by
  it.

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Continual Christianity

• Hospitable to Others
• Elders
• 1 Tim. 32
• A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of
  one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good
  behavior, hospitable, able to teach
• Tit. 17-8
• For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of
  God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not
  given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
  but hospitable, a lover of what is good,
  sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,

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Continual Christianity

• Hospitable to Others
• Elders 1 Tim. 32 Tit. 17-8
• All Christians
• 1 Pet. 49
• Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
• Rom. 1213
• distributing to the needs of the saints, given
  to hospitality.

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Continual Christianity

• Hospitable to Others
• Elders 1 Tim. 32 Tit. 17-8
• All Christians 1 Pet. 49 Rom. 1213
• By this, we will be judged Matt. 2531-46

v. 35-40 for I was hungry and you gave Me food
I was thirsty and you gave Me drink I was a
stranger and you took Me in I was naked and you
clothed Me I was sick and you visited Me I was
in prison and you came to Me. Then the righteous
will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see
You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You
drink? When did we see You a stranger and take
You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we
see You sick, or in prison, and come to You? And
the King will answer and say to them, Assuredly,
I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of
the least of these My brethren, you did it to
Me.
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Continual Christianity

• Hospitable to Others
• Elders 1 Tim. 32 Tit. 17-8
• All Christians 1 Pet. 49 Rom. 1213
• By this, we will be judged Matt. 2531-46

v. 41-45 Then He will also say to those on the
left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the
everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his
angels for I was hungry and you gave Me no food
I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink I was a
stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and
you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you
did not visit Me. Then they also will answer
Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in
prison, and did not minister to You? Then He
will answer them, saying, Assuredly, I say to
you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the
least of these, you did not do it to Me.
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Continual Christianity

• Benevolence
• Gal. 610
• Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do
  good to all, especially to those who are of the
  household of faith.

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Continual Christianity

• Benevolence
• Gal. 610
• Jas. 127
• Pure and undefiled religion before God and the
  Father is this to visit orphans and widows in
  their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from
  the world.

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Continual Christianity

• Benevolence
• Gal. 610
• Jas. 127
• Acts 244-45
• Now all who believed were together, and had all
  things in common, and sold their possessions and
  goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had
  need.

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Continual Christianity

• Benevolence
• Gal. 610
• Jas. 127
• Acts 244-45
• Acts 432-37

neither did anyone say that any of the things
he possessed was his own, but they had all things
in common Nor was there anyone among them who
lacked for all who were possessors of lands or
houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the
things that were sold, and laid them at the
apostles feet and they distributed to each as
anyone had need. And Joses, who was also named
Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son
of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of
Cyprus, having land, sold it, and brought the
money and laid it at the apostles feet.
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Continual Christianity

• Benevolence
• Gal. 610
• Jas. 127
• Acts 244-45
• Acts 432-37
• Must make our needs known Acts 61
• Now in those days, when the number of the
  disciples was multiplying, there arose a
  complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists,
  because their widows were neglected in the daily
  distribution.

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Continual Christianity

• Assembling Together
• Heb. 1024-25
• 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.

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Continual Christianity

• Assembling Together
• Heb. 1024-25
• This includes Sunday.
• Acts 207
• Now on the first day of the week, when the
  disciples came together to break bread, Paul,
  ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and
  continued his message until midnight.
• 1 Cor. 162
• 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.

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Continual Christianity

• Assembling Together
• Heb. 1024-25
• This includes Sunday. Acts 207 1 Cor. 162
• Assembling is continual in tense. As elders
  deem fit to have services for members, we are
  required to be here as we have the ability and
  the opportunity (i.e. Mid-week Bible Study,
  Gospel Meetings)

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Continual Christianity

• Grow
• 2 Pet. 318
• but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
  and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both
  now and forever. Amen.

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Continual Christianity

• Grow
• 2 Pet. 318
• 1 Pet. 22
• as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the
  word, that you may grow thereby

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Continual Christianity

• Grow
• 2 Pet. 318
• 1 Pet. 22
• If not growing, we are carnal.
• 1 Cor. 31-3
• And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to
  spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in
  Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid
  food for until now you were not able to receive
  it, and even now you are still not able for you
  are still carnal. For where there are envy,
  strife, and divisions among you, are you not
  carnal and behaving like mere men?

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Continual Christianity

• Grow
• 2 Pet. 318
• 1 Pet. 22
• If not growing, we are carnal. 1 Cor. 31-3
• Heb. 512-14
• For though by this time you ought to be
  teachers, you need someone to teach you again the
  first principles of the oracles of God and you
  have come to need milk and not solid food. For
  everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled
  in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
  But solid food belongs to those who are of full
  age, that is, those who by reason of use have
  their senses exercised to discern both good and
  evil.

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Continual Christianity

• Grow
• 2 Pet. 318
• 1 Pet. 22
• If not growing, we are carnal. 1 Cor. 31-3
  Heb. 512-14
• We grow by increasing in the faith.
• 2 Pet. 15-8
• 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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Continual Christianity

• Humble Yourself
• Jas. 410
• Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and
  He will lift you up.

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Continual Christianity

• Humble Yourself
• Jas. 410
• 1 Pet. 55-6
• Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves
  to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to
  one another, and be clothed with humility, for
  God resists the proud, But gives grace to the
  humble.Therefore humble yourselves under the
  mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due
  time,

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Continual Christianity

• Humble Yourself
• Jas. 410
• 1 Pet. 55-6
• Prov. 1618
• Pride goes before destruction,And a haughty
  spirit before a fall.

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Continual Christianity

• Humble Yourself
• Jas. 410
• 1 Pet. 55-6
• Prov. 1618
• Matt. 1624
• 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.

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Continual Christianity

• Humble Yourself
• Jas. 410
• 1 Pet. 55-6
• Prov. 1618
• Matt. 1624
• Luke 2242
• saying, Father, if it is Your will, take this
  cup away from Me nevertheless not My will, but
  Yours, be done.

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Continual Christianity

• Humble Yourself
• Jas. 410
• 1 Pet. 55-6
• Prov. 1618
• Matt. 1624
• Luke 2242
• Isa. 558-9
• For My thoughts are not your thoughts,Nor are
  your ways My ways, says the LORD.For as the
  heavens are higher than the earth, So are My
  ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than
  your thoughts.

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Continual Christianity

• Pray
• 1 Thes. 517
• Pray without ceasing

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Continual Christianity

• Pray
• 1 Thes. 517
• Eph. 618
• praying always with all prayer and supplication
  in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with
  all perseverance and supplication for all the
  saints

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Continual Christianity

• Pray
• 1 Thes. 517
• Eph. 618
• Phil. 46
• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
  prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
  your requests be made known to God

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Continual Christianity

• Pray
• 1 Thes. 517
• Eph. 618
• Phil. 46
• When we pray, Jesus intercedes as High Priest and
  Mediator 1 Jn. 21
• My little children, these things I write to you,
  so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we
  have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
  the righteous.

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Continual Christianity

• Pray
• 1 Thes. 517
• Eph. 618
• Phil. 46
• When we pray, Jesus intercedes as High Priest and
  Mediator 1 Jn. 21 Heb. 414-16
• Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who
  has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of
  God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do
  not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with
  our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as
  we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come
  boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain
  mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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Continual Christianity

• Pray
• 1 Thes. 517
• Eph. 618
• Phil. 46
• When we pray, Jesus intercedes as High Priest and
  Mediator 1 Jn. 21 Heb. 414-16 Eph 520
• giving thanks always for all things to God the
  Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Continual Christianity

• Pray
• 1 Thes. 517
• Eph. 618
• Phil. 46
• When we pray, Jesus intercedes as High Priest and
  Mediator 1 Jn. 21 Heb. 414-16 Eph 520
• When we pray, the Holy Spirit also intercedes
  Rom. 826
• Likewise the Spirit also helps in our
  weaknesses. For we do not know what we should
  pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself
  makes intercession for us with groanings which
  cannot be uttered.

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Continual Christianity

• Avoid Sin
• Rom. 122
• And do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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Continual Christianity

• Avoid Sin
• Rom. 122
• 2 Tim. 222
• Flee also youthful lusts but pursue
  righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who
  call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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Continual Christianity

• Avoid Sin
• Rom. 122
• 2 Tim. 222
• 1 Tim. 69-11
• But those who desire to be rich fall into
  temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and
  harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and
  perdition. For the love of money is a root of
  all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed
  from the faith in their greediness, and pierced
  themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O
  man of God, flee these things and pursue
  righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience,
  gentleness.

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Continual Christianity

• Avoid Sin
• Rom. 122
• 2 Tim. 222
• 1 Tim. 69-11
• 1 Thes. 522
• Abstain from every form of evil.

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Continual Christianity

• Avoid Sin
• Rom. 122
• 2 Tim. 222
• 1 Tim. 69-11
• 1 Thes. 522
• 1 Cor. 1533
• Do not be deceived Evil company corrupts good
  habits.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Matt. 721 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord,
  Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he
  who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• Matt. 724-27 Therefore whoever hears these
  sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him
  to a wise man who built his house on the rock
• Mk. 1017 Now as He was going out on the road,
  one came running, knelt before Him, and asked
  Him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may
  inherit eternal life?

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Acts 237 Now when they heard this, they were
  cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest
  of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we
  do?
• Acts 96 So he, trembling and astonished,
  said, Lord, what do You want me to do?
• Acts 1630 And he brought them out and said,
  Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49
• The things which you learned and received and
  heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of
  peace will be with you.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49 Jas. 122
• But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
  deceiving yourselves.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49 Jas. 122
• We must continue in goodness. Rom. 1122
• Therefore consider the goodness and severity of
  God on those who fell, severity but toward you,
  goodness, if you continue in His goodness.
  Otherwise you also will be cut off.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49 Jas. 122
• We must continue in goodness. Rom. 1122
• We must keep the Word and keep ourselves
  pure.Lk. 815
• But the ones that fell on the good ground are
  those who, having heard the word with a noble and
  good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49 Jas. 122
• We must continue in goodness. Rom. 1122
• We must keep the Word and keep ourselves
  pure.Lk. 815 1 Tim. 522
• Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in
  other peoples sins keep yourself pure.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49 Jas. 122
• We must continue in goodness. Rom. 1122
• We must keep the Word and keep ourselves
  pure.Lk. 815 1 Tim. 522
• We must endure temptation.Jas. 12-4
• My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into
  various trials, knowing that the testing of your
  faith produces patience. But let patience have
  its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
  complete, lacking nothing.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49 Jas. 122
• We must continue in goodness. Rom. 1122
• We must keep the Word and keep ourselves
  pure.Lk. 815 1 Tim. 522
• We must endure temptation.Jas. 12-4 1 Cor.
  1012-13
• No temptation has overtaken you except such
  as is common to man but God is faithful, who
  will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you
  are able, but with the temptation will also make
  the way of escape, that you may be able to bear
  it.

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Continual Christianity

• Do/Remain Faithful
• We must DO something.
• Phil. 49 Jas. 122
• We must continue in goodness. Rom. 1122
• We must keep the Word and keep ourselves
  pure.Lk. 815 1 Tim. 522
• We must endure temptation.Jas. 12-4 1 Cor.
  1012-13 Rev. 210
• 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.

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Continual Christianity

• Invitation
• Some religions believe Christianity is a
  bi-annual religion (Easter, Christmas)
• Others view it as a weekly religion (Sunday only)
• Some Christian brethren think it is a three times
  a week (checkmark) religion.
• However, the Bible clearly shows that
  Christianity is a daily religion

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Continual Christianity

• Open Hearts
• Study/Be Diligent
• Teach Others
• Teach Our Children
• Hospitable to Others
• Benevolence
• Assembling Together
• Grow

• Humble Yourself
• Pray
• Avoid Sin
• Do/Remain Faithful

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Continual Christianity

• Invitation
• If not a Christian, you need to
• Hear (Matt. 175)
• Believe (Jn. 824)
• Repent (Lk. 133)
• Confess (Matt. 1032)
• Be Baptized (Mk. 166)
• Live a Christian Life every day

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Continual Christianity

• Invitation
• If are a Christian, and not lived the Christian
  life everyday
• If privately, make correction in your own life by
  repenting and praying Gods forgiveness (Acts
  822)
• If publicly, confess your sins and have the
  members of the church pray for you that your sins
  be forgiven(Jas. 516) and then they can exhort
  and encourage you daily (Gal. 61 Heb 313)

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Continual Christianity

• An Every Day Religion