08-21-11 Bible Study Notes

08-21-11 Bible Study Notes

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  Five Steps toAvoid Backsliding Part two:
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  Here’s How: SixthStep Stay in fellowship often with other born-again believers. You can’t make it alone as a christian. We need the strength, prayers and accountability. Hebrews 10:23-25(NLT)
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  23 Let ushold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
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  Here’s How: SeventhStep Stand firm in your faith. Expect difficult times in your christian life. James 1:2-4(NLT)
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  2 Dear brothersand sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
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  Here’s How: EighthStep Persevere Endurance 1 Corinthians 13:6-7(NLT) 1 Timothy 4:15-16(NLT)
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  1 Corinthians 13:6-7 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
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  1 Timothy 4:15-16 15 Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress. 16 Keep a close watch on how you live and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right for the sake of your own salvation and the salvation of those who hear you.
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  Here’s How: NinthStep Run the race to WIN. Always let the Bible be your guide. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27(NLT) 2 Timothy 4:7-8(NLT)
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  1 Corinthians 9:24-27 24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! 25 All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. 26 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. 27 I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
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  2 Timothy 4:7-8 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. 8 And now the prize awaits me—the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me but for all who eagerly look forward to his appearing.
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  Here’s How: TenthStep Remind yourself of what God has done for you in the past. Everyone has troubled BUT we have HOPE. Plan to PROSPER and not to HARM you. Jeremiah 29:11-13(NLT) Hebrews 10:35-39(NLT)
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  Jeremiah 29:11-13 11For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.
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  Hebrews 10:35-36&39 35So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised. 39 But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.