We have learned/grown spiritually...
    or at least had the opportunity to have learned; to have grown...

• Higher personal standard in your walk as well as your family!
• Say 'no' more than you ever thought you would!
• Talk less often - think before you speak - and then speak softer - folks may have thought you weren't feeling your normal self...
• Lose some friends and even family!
• Become more aware of 'issues' that are making up the new world government and one world religion - all being prepped by the devil for the antichrist!
• Become more aware of 'thyself:'
• discretion
• modesty
• heart
• understanding
• testimony & profession of your faith
• joy
• peace
• longsuffering
• your parenting
• your spousing
• and more... etc.

• unsure
• have been missing the sermons and discussions in meetings & gatherings, etc.
• lacking in your personal joy and inner peace
• feeling an anger towards others in this church family because your pride can't deal with us yet
• having to put on your church face (which by the way, we all know each other enough to know when our church faces are only skin deep!!!)

• you see that folks are truly lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God
• the latter times making more and more sense now
• you are more solid on Tribulation, but not just because of a teaching - you are seeing it develop daily!
• you see the attack on more than just the Book - you see the nets being laid for your kids and grandkids!
• you know Satan's devices far more than you ever thought you would

You understanding more and more of the treasures that can come from walking the walk.

• a walk that you were never interested in - and in many cases, rebelled against it - even as a Christian.
• a walk that you tried to escape - and thought you had, when we see how rightly dividing debunks the Great Commission and having to walk like Christ said to the Jews.

• Ephesians 1:16-20; Ephesians 3:14-19; Philippians 1:9-11; Colossians 1:9-11

• Preach, Teach and Reach for the walk as Paul told Timothy & Titus (along with the others, of course)!

• II Thessalonians 3 - But not yet - we must get through Timothy and Titus first!

• good attendance, more input and discussion of personal situations, seeing the Scripture ask to be trusted as our final authority
• some men may even go home with it and not take a step or two backward - at least not right away?
• some of this may be an answer to the prayers of wife and kids - but if it is, beware - it may not be what you think it should be!
• I Timothy 1:3-6 - first night - men allowing false doctrine into the home - turned to vain janglings and the fruit thereof!
• I Timothy 1:16 - second night - looking at 'thyself' before anyone else
• I Timothy 1:11 - God is trusting us with Paul's stuff - rightly dividing - we can not drop the ball on this one.
• I Timothy 1:18,19 - This will be the biggest war in our life - for the family, for the kids, for your wife and for yourself.
• I Timothy 1:20 - we may lose some family over this stuff coming up in Timothy.  There must be grace, but we can't hide behind it, either.
• Galatians 4:1,2; I Timothy 1:16 - third night - showing the correct pattern of manner of life and not treating our children like they are already lord of all.
• Next meeting - this Monday night, July 16, 2007 - I Timothy 2:1-8

We NOW can!

• Saved - Romans 8:8,9
• Assured of proper salvation - Galatians 1:6, II Corinthians 11:4, etc.
• Rightly Dividing - needeth not to be ashamed - shew thyself approved unto God - not following profane and vain babblings or any vain janglings -II Timothy 2:15,16; I Timothy 1:6; 6:20,21
• Following Paul - Philippians 4:9 - to have the God of peace!

We don't sin 'on record.'

• but we do CHOOSE to follow the sin that is in us!
• We no longer have to serve it!
• That is so different than what the Gospel message is today for modern Bible Christians who think they have to actually stop sinning, because I John 3 says so - and we must walk in the image of Jesus - to be conformed to the image of his Son, Romans 8:29, etc.

• Romans 6:13 - Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
• Romans 6:19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

As we yield... now we are seen!

How to perform?  Romans 7:18 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

Is it a "Biblical" standard that is seen by others?

• or an American cultural one? (it gets leavened one leaven at a time...)
• or a family one?  (it gets leavened one leaven at a time...)

• The soul is out of the picture once we are saved!
• We war with our mind!  Romans 7:15-15-25  -  especially verses 23-25
• The time of the Great Tribulation, THEN the battle will be over the soul!
• Just like Hebrews 13:17 - pastors watching for your souls?
• The souls are fine if you are saved - the preacher needs to help you read that Book - then God can show you anything - even some things the pastor doesn't know about you!!!

Outward Glory

• Romans 13:12-14 - 12: The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

 
• Galatians 5:16,17 - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
• Ephesians 2:1-10 - 1: And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

• Romans 11:36 - For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
• Romans 16:25-27 - Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
• I Corinthians 10:31 - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
• Ephesians 3:21 - Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

• The music if fleshy, the appearance is for fleshy comfort, the sermons are self - fleshy, the surroundings are fleshy, etc.
• They worshipping of an unknown god is actually just worship of the creature, not the creator!
• I Corinthians 1:29-31 - That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
• I Corinthians 5:6 - Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

• II Corinthians 4:15 - For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
• Ephesians 1:12-14 - That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

• I Thessalonians 2:11-12 - As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.