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Can the Bible make you a success in life?

• (Rom. 1210-11) In love of the brethren be
  tenderly affectioned one to another in honor
  preferring one another in diligence not
  slothful fervent in spirit serving the Lord
• Success the progressive realization of a
  worthwhile goal or ideal

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G o d ' s P r i n c i p l e s f o r S u c c
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1. Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• (Phil. 313-14) Brethren, I could not myself yet
  to have laid hold but one thing I do, forgetting
  the things which are behind, and stretching
  forward to the things which are before, I press
  on toward the goal unto the prize of the high
  calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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1. Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• (Phil. 313-14) Brethren, I could not myself yet
  to have laid hold but one thing I do, forgetting
  the things which are behind, and stretching
  forward to the things which are before, I press
  on toward the goal unto the prize of the high
  calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• Do you really want to be a success?
• (Prov. 237) For as he thinks within himself, so
  he is

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• Cant never could do anything

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Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• There is power in purpose
• (Matt. 621) for where your treasure is, there
  your heart will be also.

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Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• There is power in purpose
• (Matt. 621) for where your treasure is, there
  your heart will be also.

Conrad Hilton
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Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• There is power in purpose
• (Matt. 621) for where your treasure is, there
  your heart will be also.
• (Prov. 237) For as he
  thinks within himself,
  so he is

Conrad Hilton
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Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• People with a purpose

Glenn Cunningham
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Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• People with a purpose

Glenn Cunningham
Frank Ellis
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Set for yourself a goal of
excellence

• They dared to dream

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2. Put first things first

• (Matt. 633) But seek first His kingdom and His
  righteousness, and all these things will be added
  to you.

Charles Schwab
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2. Put first things first

• (Matt. 633) But seek first His kingdom and His
  righteousness, and all these things will be added
  to you.

Charles Schwab
Earl Nightingale
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• (Luke 1425-33) Now large crowds were going
  along with Him and He turned and said to them,
  "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own
  father and mother and wife and children and
  brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life,
  he cannot be My disciple. "Whoever does not carry
  his own cross and come after Me cannot be My
  disciple. "For which one of you, when he wants to
  build a tower, does not first sit down and
  calculate the cost to see if he has enough to
  complete it?

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• "Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is
  not able to finish, all who observe it begin to
  ridicule him, saying, 'This man began to build
  and was not able to finish. "Or what king, when
  he sets out to meet another king in battle, will
  not first sit down and consider whether he is
  strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter
  the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
  "Or else, while the other is still far away, he
  sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
  "So then, none of you can be My disciple who does
  not give up all his own possessions.

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• "Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is
  not able to finish, all who observe it begin to
  ridicule him, saying, 'This man began to build
  and was not able to finish. "Or what king, when
  he sets out to meet another king in battle, will
  not first sit down and consider whether he is
  strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter
  the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
  "Or else, while the other is still far away, he
  sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
  "So then, none of you can be My disciple who does
  not give up all his own possessions.

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3. After setting goal, enter into its
accomplishment with enthusiasm

• Thats something lacking today
• (Ecc. 910) Whatever your hand finds to do, do
  it with all your might
• (Eph. 66) not in the way of eyeservice, as
  men-pleasers but as servants of Christ, doing
  the will of God from the heart
• Enthusiasm from two Greek words en Theos
  God in us

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4. And then some

• (Matt. 541) Whoever forces you to go one mile,
  go with him two.
• Do common things uncommonly well
• Picture what Jesus told the Jews
  about going the second mile

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5. W-o-r-k

• An unpopular concept, but if spelled
  w-e-l-f-a-r-e we might have something
• (John 94) We must work the works of Him who
  sent Me as long as it is day night is coming
  when no one can work.
• Still room at the top for those not afraid to work

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There is an ultimate success that transcends all
earthly success

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

Tower of London
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• He that believes and is baptized shall be saved,
  but he that does not believe shall be condemned
  (Mark 1616)

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If you reject the Lords invitation, what will
you gain?

• "For what will it profit a man if he gains the
  whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will
  a man give in exchange for his soul?

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If you reject the Lords invitation, what will
you gain?

• "For what will it profit a man if he gains the
  whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will
  a man give in exchange for his soul?