How to Tell If You Have Been With Jesus Acts 4: 13

Read the passage Acts 4

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(Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and 

        ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.)

    1. There is a message that cannot be hidden.

(they saw the boldness)

    2. There is an assurance of heart that gives utterance of Christ.

(boldness)

   3. There is a spontaneity of expression of God's presence in your life that is unashamed.

(boldness of Peter and John, and perceived…)

    4. There is a knowledge of God that exceeds your learning.

(and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men,)

    5. As a result of your sharing, others marvel at God.

(…they marveled;)

    6. You cannot deny Jesus is your life.

(and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.)

    7. Others cannot deny that you have been with Jesus.

(and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.)

God's Bounds Acts 6: 4

Read the passage Acts 6

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    1. Appointed and made clear

(But we will give ourselves)

    2. A place of abiding

(continually)

    3. Known through prayer

(to prayer)

    4. Embraced through doing

(and to the ministry of the word)

    5. The Holy Spirit found trustworthy

(to the ministry)

    6. God's will found regarding those under our leadership

(ministry of the word)

    7. Contentment found as only within God's boundary

(of the word)

Responsibility in Light of His Coming 2 Thessalonians 3: 2-5

Read the passage 2 Thessalonians 3

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v.2 1. Know of the potential entrapment of evil, avoid it.

(And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men:…)

v.3 2. Allow God to deepen your roots into the rich soil of His word.

(But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you,)

v.3 3. Be attentive to the Holy Spirit’s sensitivity in you toward evil and respond

as directed by Him.

(…and keep you from evil.)

v.1,4 4. Give God the full liberty of your heart.

(that the word of the Lord may have free course,)

(And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do …)

v.4 5. Look for God’s instruction with a heart readied for obedience.

(…that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.)

v.5 6. Allow the love of Christ, for Christ, to perfect you.

(And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God,)

v.4 7. Don’t slacken your expectancy of His coming.

(…and into the patient waiting for Christ.)

My Responsibility 2 Timothy 1: 12

Read the passage 2 Timothy 1

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1) Suffer on the side of truth 

(For which cause I also suffer these things;)

2) Be upheld by God's integrity 

(I am not ashamed;) 

3) Know assuredly your source 

(for I know)  

4) Keep the child-like faith of salvation 

(whom I have believed) 

5) Remain assured of God's faithfulness 

(and am persuaded that He is able)

6) Rely on God's fulfillment 

(to keep that which I have committed unto Him) 

7) Live for eternity 

(unto Him against that day.) 

Seeking All God Has Given Joshua 11: 15-23

Read the passage Joshua 11

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v.15 1. The pathway to receiving from God is obedient surrender.

(As the Lord command Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, 

and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded

  Moses.)

v.16 2. The victory of God is just as broad as are His promises.

(So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the

  land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and 

the valley of the same:)

v.16, 3. The victory of God knows no bounds nor impairment; His victory is there

    17 to match any challenge.

(Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the 

valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and 

smote them, and slew them.)

v.17, 4. The enemy is but on hold for the time of God’s visitation.

   18 (…and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.)(Joshua 

made war a long time with all those kings.)

v.19 5. God bestows the grace and power to completely fulfill His purpose.

(There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the 

Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.)

v.21, 6. The strength of men is not the issue for God’s people, but rather the power

    22 of God.

(And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains,

  from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, 

and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their

  cities.)(There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of 

Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.)

v.23 7. What God gives to His people is accompanied with rest when the labor of

faith is over.

(So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto

Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their 

divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.)

Staying on Course 2 Timothy 4: 7

Read the passage 2 Timothy 4

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(…I have finished my course, …)

1) Requires knowing the way.

2) Requires a commitment to follow- to walk in the way.

3) Requires diligent pursuit.

4) Requires spiritual energy.

5) Requires staying on course.

6) Requires continuing to run.

7) Requires knowing where the fish line is.

Hebrews 11: 10

Encouragement to Ask Luke 11: 9

Read the passage Luke 11

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(And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; 

knock, and it shall be opened unto you.)

1. The heavenly Father is very generous with the privilege of asking in prayer.

2. The heavenly Father is very generous as evidenced by His giving of His

only begotten Son for salvation to men.

3. The heavenly Father can be generous even to a believer who is not all

proper in petitioning, because of the precision and rightness of His Son and

the grace of salvation.

4. The emphasis is on the asking, not as much as believer’s would think on

the propriety and manner of request.

Oh, believer honesty places a demand on your self righteous conclusion

about the spiritual propriety of your requests of God. How many times have

you just cried out to God in your need. Propriety was not your priority, but

your need was.

5. God’s generous promise is nonetheless a promise; it is based on the

sufficiency of God’s character, not on the conduct of the believer.

6. If God chooses not to withhold the privileged promise, a believer would 

seem unwise for sure to exclude himself from the promise based upon

his own conclusiveness regarding his own qualities of unworthiness.

7. Oh, believer rejoice greatly in the privilege granted of Christ; avail yourself

of His eternal riches in glory.

Phil. 4: 19

Privileged Asking Luke 11: 9

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(And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; 

knock, and it shall be opened unto you.)

1. If a believer shall ask much of a friend, what of asking Jesus?

see v. 5

2. If a believer will trust a friend at a late hour and prevail upon him, what of

asking Jesus?

see v. 5

3. If a believer has boldness with a friend, what of asking Jesus?

see v. 5

4. If a believer will inconvenience a friend for another friend, why should he

not be willing to ask Jesus in time of trial?

see v. 6

5. If a believer has no shame nor consideration for the one asked to serve,

is Jesus offended by such manner?

see v. 7

Gr. importunity Strong's Concordance (335)  from without shame. Recklessness, audacity,

shamelessness, insolence. Recklessness or disregard of consideration by 

the one making the request.)

6. Should a believer automatically stop asking because of a denial? What of

asking Jesus? Could God be testing his faith? 

see v. 8

7. Is not God making the believer aware of his privilege of asking?

(And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; …)

Fear Him Not Numbers 21: 33-35

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Attribute to God His sufficiency.

Be comforted by what God has promised. V.34

vs.33 

1) Many are they who come against God's people. 

(and they turned and went up by the way of Bashan:) 

vs.33, 34 

2) God's people are not to go around their opposition

.(went out against them, ... and the Lord said unto Moses,)

To ignore God’s promptings is to get a bigger challenge, a bigger enemy, a bigger battle. 

vs.34 

3) God has no fear of the enemy's claim.

 (and the Lord said unto Moses,) 

The word cannot be challenged. It refuses to change.

vs.34 

4) God wants His people to realize their security in Him. 

(Fear him not;) 

No reason to fear the enemy when we realize how great God is.

Believers need to focus on God’s greatness, magnify God’s virtues, God’ strength, might and power.

Never focus on the enemy’s claim, focus on the victorious Christ.

vs.34 

5) The pathway of victory is a pathway well traveled by God. 

(for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land;) 

vs.34

6) The pathway of God's victory is repeatable. 

(thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon, ... ) 

Learn God's word, what God honors, continue in it. II Tim. 3:14

Repeat it--God wants you to. 

Don’t attribute strength to the flesh; don’t follow humanistic influences- “do the best you can’’ you win some, you lose some.”

The flesh is weak. Other Christians are tempted to offer fleshly justification to compensate for spiritual neglect.

God is faithful. His word is true. His ways are sure.

Don’t attribute powerlessness to God nor defeat to God. 

vs.35 

7) The territory of Victory is to be claimed by God's people. 

(so they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left to him alive, and they possessed his land)