{"id":47620,"date":"2022-10-01T02:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/have-we-measured-ourselves-lately-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:58:58","slug":"have-we-measured-ourselves-lately-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/have-we-measured-ourselves-lately-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Have We Measured Ourselves Lately? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following questions are good indicators of spiritual growth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do we spend time reading God&#8217;s word and talking with Him each day in prayer? (2 Timothy 2:15 ASV; 1 Thessalonians 1:2).<\/li>\n<li>Do we look forward to fellowshipping with the Lord? (Hebrews 10:23-25).<\/li>\n<li>What &#8220;fruit of the Spirit&#8221; is apparent in our life? (Gal. 5:22).<\/li>\n<li>Do we talk about Jesus with people who don&#8217;t know Him? (Luke 14:23).<\/li>\n<li>How are we using our God-given talents? (Matthew 25:14-30).<\/li>\n<li>Do we have a generous and giving spirit? 2 Corinthians 8:1-5).<\/li>\n<li>How much better do we know God today than we did a year ago?(1 John 2:3-5).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A child seems to grow up all of a sudden, but it&#8217;s actually a continual process. Just as Jesus grew in both wisdom and stature (Luke 2:52), we are to continue to &#8220;grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ&#8221; (2 Peter 3:18).<\/p>\n<p>We are no longer to be children, but are to &#8220;grow up in all things into Him who is the head  Christ&#8221; (Ephesians 4:14-15). Have we measured ourselves by God&#8217;s divine standard lately? (2 Corinthians 13:5; cf. John 12:48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following questions are good indicators of spiritual growth: Do we spend time reading God&#8217;s word and talking with Him each day in prayer? (2 Timothy 2:15 ASV; 1 Thessalonians 1:2). Do we look forward to fellowshipping with the Lord? (Hebrews 10:23-25). What &#8220;fruit of the Spirit&#8221; is apparent in our life? (Gal. 5:22). Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/have-we-measured-ourselves-lately-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Have We Measured Ourselves Lately? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/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-47620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620","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=47620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}