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Review – Purifying Our Environment

Review – Purifying Our Environment. Keys to Purifying Our Environment: Get rid of the physical objects Get rid of the people who promote sin Get rid of the places where we sin Get rid of the passing benefits Get rid of the pieces forever Replace them with proper practices.

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Review – Purifying Our Environment

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  1. Review – Purifying Our Environment • Keys to Purifying Our Environment: • Get rid of the physical objects • Get rid of the people who promote sin • Get rid of the places where we sin • Get rid of the passing benefits • Get rid of the pieces forever • Replace them with proper practices

  2. Review – Purifying Our Environment • Unless we remove all obstacles: • No zeal – fire will never be ignited • Smoldering zeal – fire can never be stoked • Moderate zeal – fire can never grow In all cases, failure to purify our environment will ultimately result in a dead, cold fire.

  3. Drawing Near to God • NT instruction to draw near to God: • Jas. 4:7-10 • 1 Pet. 5:6 • Heb. 10:19-22 • Why should we want to draw near? • 1 Jn. 4:9-10, 19 • Rom. 5:6-11

  4. Drawing Near to God God is Passionate about Me (I Am Precious) • How did God feel about Israel? • Deut. 4:24 • Ezek. 16:6ff • He feels the same about His people today. • Rom. 8:37-39 • Eph. 5:25-29 • Do we ever forget that we are precious?

  5. Drawing Near to God God is Perfecting Me • How did OT writers refer to perfecting process? (Prov. 17:3;Mal. 3:2-3) • God also refines/perfects His people today: • Jas. 1:2-4 • 1 Pet. 5:10 • 1 Jn. 2:3-6 • 1 Jn. 4:12, 14-17 • 2 Cor. 7:1

  6. Drawing Near to God God Will Punish the Wicked • “If you embrace His will in this life, then His fire is a blessing that purifies. If you reject His will, then His fire will be an eternal source of punishment for you.” • Consider 2 Thess. 1: • Vv. 3-5 • Vv. 6-10 • Which group will I be in? (Heb. 10:26-27)

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