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Three questions to guide our discussion:

Three questions to guide our discussion: What is Godly Personal Initiative, and what must be present in me for it to exist in my life? How did Godly Personal Initiative show up in the life of Jesus? What does Jesus expect of me?. What is Personal Initiative?. How did Jesus become wise?.

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Three questions to guide our discussion:

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  1. Three questions to guide our discussion: • What is Godly Personal Initiative, and what must be present in me for it to exist in my life? • How did Godly Personal Initiative show up in the life of Jesus? • What does Jesus expect of me?

  2. What is Personal Initiative?

  3. How did Jesus become wise?

  4. Luke 2:41-42 41 Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom.

  5. Luke 2:43-45 43 After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.

  6. Luke 2:46-49 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.

  7. Luke 2:52 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

  8. Mark 12:28-31 28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" 29 "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." What is Aggressive Love?

  9. John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

  10. John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world that he gave …

  11. How Did Jesus Display Godly Personal Initiative in His Life?

  12. John 4:34 34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. John 6:38 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

  13. John 7:16 16 Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. John 8:28b-29 28b I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. 29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.“ John 12:49b-50b 49b … the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it. 50b … whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.

  14. Luke 9:22 22 And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life."

  15. Luke 9:28-31 28 About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. 30 Two men, Moses and Elijah, 31 appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem.

  16. Luke 9:51 51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.

  17. Luke 22:41-44 41 He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, 42 "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." 43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. 44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground

  18. What does Jesus expect from me?

  19. Luke 9:22-24 22 And he said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." 23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.

  20. Ephesians 5:1-2 1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

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