Since 2012 is drawing to a close and 2013 is just about to begin, we as Gods children can make 2013 a spiritually better and more productive year, not only for our country, but for our world as well.<\/p>\n
While sin has always been rampant in our world (Romans 3:9-12,23), there is a God-given solution to reduce the impact that sin has in our lives, in our nation and in our world, and the solution begins with me<\/strong> (Matthew 16:24; cf. Acts 14:19-22; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-8; 2 Timothy 3:10-14).<\/p>\n Lets ask ourselves the following five questions and note the answer which follows each one:<\/p>\n 1)<\/strong> Do I want to make my nation and world a better place in which to live in 2013?<\/p>\n It all begins with me.<\/strong><\/p>\n 2)<\/strong> Do I want to have a more fiscally responsible government in 2013?<\/p>\n It all begins with me.<\/strong><\/p>\n 3)<\/strong> Do I want my children and grandchildren to grow up in a godless society or a godly society in 2013?<\/p>\n It all begins with me.<\/strong><\/p>\n 4)<\/strong> Do I want to have my children and grandchildren grow up to be responsible adults in 2013?<\/p>\n It all begins with me.<\/strong><\/p>\n 5)<\/strong> Do I want the Lords church to grow, not only numerically, but spiritually as well in 2013?<\/p>\n It all begins with me.<\/strong><\/p>\n Brethren and friends, if our Lord taught anything while He was here on earth, He taught individual responsibility for our thoughts and the deeds connected to our thoughts (Mark 7:14-23; cf. 2 Corinthians 10:1-6).<\/p>\n Our Lord was given the responsibility by His Father to seek and to save that which was lost<\/em><\/strong> (Matthew 18:11; Luke 19:10). For our sake and for the sake of all mankind, we can be forever thankful that our Lord willingly<\/strong> accepted and took that responsibility seriously<\/strong> (Luke 2:49; Luke 4:42-44; cf. Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).<\/p>\n Our Lord realized that if the world was to be saved, it all begins with Me<\/em><\/strong> (Luke 2:49; John 3:16-18; cf. John 4:34; John 5:30; John 6:37-38).<\/p>\n Lets think about the above thoughts, and then take any and all appropriate action in this New Year – 2013 as directed by Gods word (Colossians 3:17; cf. 1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Peter 4:11).<\/p>\n Remember, it all begins with me <\/strong>(2 Timothy 4:1-2; 2 Timothy 2:1-2). Since 2012 is drawing to a close and 2013 is just about to begin, we as Gods children can make 2013 a spiritually better and more productive year, not only for our country, but for our world as well. While sin has always been rampant in our world (Romans 3:9-12,23), there is a God-given solution … Continue reading “It All Begins With Me – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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