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1 Timothy 6:6-12. Too many more concerned with getting Financial Wealth than with living Godly Lives! Mark 10:23-27. Flee – Follow - Fight. Flee These Things:. “FLEE” from “pheugo” – to run away(lit.or fig.);by implication, to shun. The Love of Money Drowning Trapping Taking Root.
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1 Timothy 6:6-12 Too many more concerned with getting Financial Wealth than with living Godly Lives! Mark 10:23-27
Flee These Things: • “FLEE” from “pheugo” – to run away(lit.or fig.);by implication, to shun. • The Love of Money • Drowning • Trapping • Taking Root
Flee These Things: • Flee Youthful Lusts • 2 Timothy 2:22 • Youth tempted to TRY them • Man of God Runs From them • Idolatry • 1 Corinthians 10:14 • Colossians 3:5
Pursue / Follow • “Follow” “dioko” – to pursue (lit. or fig.). Romans 14:19 • Righteousness – dikaiosune – “equity (of character or act); specially… justification” • Matthew 22:37-40
Pursue / Follow • Godliness eusebeia – “piety toward God; specially, the gospel theme.” • “God Toward Ness” • Faith –the ROOT or BASIS for everything else • Love–Motive/ Power of Faith • Galatians 5:6
Pursue / Follow • Gentleness - Meekness • Priaiotes – “gentleness, by implication, humility.” • “…first of all a meekness before God, also such in the face of men, even of evil men,…” • “…equanimity of spirit.. Neither elated nor cast down, it is not occupied with self at all.”
Fight The Good Fight of Faith • Three Types of Enemies: • 1. The World – James 4:4 • 1 John 2:15-17 • 2. The Flesh – Romans 7:21 • Galatians 5:17 • 3. The Devil – 1 Peter 5:8,9 • James 4:7
Fight The Good Fight of Faith • To be Successful we must: • Ephesians 6:11 “whole armor” • Object of this fight – Eternal Life- 1 Timothy 6:12 • Matthew 25:34-36 • 1 John 2:25
When the Fight is Over & the Battle Won, it will be a REALITY!
Flee from SinFollow ChristFight the Good FightLay Hold on Eternal Life!