Memory Verse
Hebrews 12:1-2: Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to ______, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
JESUS!
Good works set before us (Ephesians 2:10)! Days ahead already written (Psalm 139:16)!
Just ask God, and He'll lead you to BECOME like Jesus!
Bible reference:
10 seconds to find
Matthew 19:6-12
Matthew 19:6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”...
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Hebrews 10:24-25
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting ________, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
together
Together we are the church
Lord's prayer: "Our Father in heaven"
Only one blood of Jesus to unite us. Jesus has to win our arguments.
Haggai 2:5 Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. _____ not.
FEAR NOT!
Get rid of anxiety!
Philippians 2:3-4
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your ____ interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
own
imagine our arguments if we acted like this!
NEXT QUESTION IS ONE BELOW!
U N I ty 300
What was Ananias and Sapphira's sin?
Sin of Impression, or lying to the Holy Spirit
(gave hefty sum either way)
Don't aim to impress others! Aim to impress God, despite what people think- clock in for heaven.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called _____.
Romans 8:28
according to his purpose!
And what purpose is that? To bring down heaven through YOU!
The mind of Christ is that he did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a _____, being born in the likeness of men? (Philippians 2:6-7)
SERVANT (doulo means owned property-slave)
slaves don't have HR.
Isaiah 33:22 says: "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us".
Paul talks about how they are praying for the Colossians as follows
Colossians 1:11- being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful _____ to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.
THANKS
Prayer always needs to include thanksgiving!
Enter his gates with thanksgiving! Psalm 100:4
1 Thessalonians 5:16 _____ always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
REJOICE! Heaven is our home!
Philippians 3:1- "Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you"
Luke 10:20- However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Bible reference:
7 seconds to find
Luke 17:7-10 AND Luke 12:37
7 “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? 8 Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? 9 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”
AND (Master coming back from wedding banquet)
Luke 12:37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his ______.
body
John 2:23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. (IT'S THE SAME GREEK ROOT WORD)
Galatians 5:16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the _____ of the flesh.
desires
17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Paul said I would never eat what again in order to not be a stumbling block to the weak brother or sister for whom Christ died (1 Corinthians 8:11-13)?
meat
1 Corinthians 8:11-13: So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never ((to the end of age)) eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.
2 Corinthians 5:7-9 For we live by ____, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
faith
Seek the kingdom first always (Matthew 6:33) to starve the evil unbelieving heart (Hebrews 3:12)