SUBJECT: Growth<\/p>\n
TITLE: GROWING AND ABOUNDING SPIRITUALLY<\/p>\n
PROPOSITION: To set forth the aspect of the Christian life which God describes as growing and abounding.<\/p>\n
OBJECTIVE:That we grow and abound in spiritual matters.<\/p>\n
INTRODUCTION:<\/p>\n
1. Read: 2 Peter 1:8-9; 3:18.<\/p>\n
2. Regarding the text:<\/p>\n
1) Inspiration, through Peter, gives us sight regarding spiritual realities.<\/p>\n
2) This is a constant and consistent theme of the entire Bible.<\/p>\n
a. Psalm 27:1;<\/p>\n
b. Psalm 36:9;<\/p>\n
c. Matthew 6:22-23;<\/p>\n
d. John 1:4-5;<\/p>\n
e. 1 John 1:6-7.<\/p>\n
3) Inspiration tells us things that bring us to spiritual sight,<\/p>\n
a. The “like precious faith,” 1:1;<\/p>\n
b. “The knowledge of God,” 1:2; 1:3;<\/p>\n
c. The Christian “graces,” 1:5-7.<\/p>\n
4) Then we learn that God expects us to grow, and that in two areas, grace and knowledge.<\/p>\n
5) Growing and abounding, then, is a “nut-shell” description of the Christian life.<\/p>\n
3. Reference to Subject, Title, Proposition, and Objective.<\/p>\n
DISCUSSION:Growing and Abounding, spiritually-<\/p>\n
I. Is not “Spiritualism.”<\/p>\n
1. Galatians 5:19-20.<\/p>\n
2. Revelation 21:8.<\/p>\n
II. Is not “EMOTIONALISM.”<\/p>\n
1. Proverbs 14:12.<\/p>\n
2. Proverbs 28:26.<\/p>\n
3. 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22.<\/p>\n
4. Jeremiah 17:9-10.<\/p>\n
5. 1 John 4:1.<\/p>\n
III. Involves Knowledge.<\/p>\n
1. John 8:32.<\/p>\n
2. John 20:29.<\/p>\n
IV. Requires Sincerity.<\/p>\n
1. 2 Peter 3:1.(ASV)<\/p>\n
2. Acts 2J:1 .<\/p>\n
3. Acts 10:1-2, 22, 32; 11:14.<\/p>\n
4. Sincerity is required, but sincerity alone is not enough.<\/p>\n
V. Involves being filled with the fruit of righteousness.<\/p>\n
1. Galatians 5:22-23.<\/p>\n
2. Philippians 1:11.<\/p>\n
VI. Glorifies God.<\/p>\n
1. Ephesians 3:20-21.<\/p>\n
2. Ephesians 1:12.<\/p>\n
VII. Is growing.<\/p>\n
1. 1 Peter 2:2.<\/p>\n
2. 2 Peter 3:18.<\/p>\n
3. Hebrews 5:12-14.<\/p>\n
CONCLUSION:<\/p>\n
1. We have seen that God expects us to grow and abound spiritually.<\/p>\n
2. We have seen some practical ways to do this.<\/p>\n
3. Let us grow and abound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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