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Preparing for a Season of

A Teaching Series Based on 1st Timothy. Preparing for a Season of. GREATNESS.  NEVER GIVING UP IS A KEY CHALLENGE IN EVERY BELIEVER’S LIFE. 1 Tim 6:11-16.

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  1. A Teaching Series Based on 1st Timothy Preparing for a Season of GREATNESS

  2.  NEVER GIVING UP IS A KEY CHALLENGE IN EVERY BELIEVER’S LIFE

  3. 1 Tim 6:11-16 • 11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many

  4. 1 Tim 6:11-16 • witnesses. 13 In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you 14 to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which God

  5. 1 Tim 6:11-16 • will bring about in his own time-God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen. NIV

  6. Never Giving Up Requires • Knowing Who You Are • 1 Tim 6:11 • But you, man • of God,

  7. Knowing who you are . . . • Determines how you live. • 11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith.

  8. Rob Roy • “The act is below me.” • Robert McGregor

  9. Knowing who you are . . . • Determines the choices you make. • 11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith.

  10. Never Giving Up Requires • Knowing Who You Are • Knowing the Eternal Perspective • 1 Tim 6:12-13 • Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. NIV

  11. -- lay hold to (middle voice) -- seize for yourself Seize for yourself the eternal life to which you were called. Take hold of

  12. U.S. offers attorneys at Gitmo • Burma troops take monasteries • Supreme Court halts execution • Consumer spending up in August • Mad scramble for NL playoffs • Oden set for rehab, year of scouting the league • Bono receives Liberty Medal in Philly

  13. Out in front of us is the drama of men and of nations, seething, struggling, laboring, dying ... but within the silences of the souls of men an eternal drama is ever being enacted. ... On the outcome of this inner drama rests, ultimately, the outer pageant of history. • --Thomas Kelly

  14. Never Giving Up Requires • Knowing Who You Are • Knowing the Eternal Perspective • Knowing the Charge

  15. Knowing the charge • Serious Charge • In the presence of witnesses. • 13 In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,

  16. Knowing the Charge • Leads to Accountability in Living • 15 which God will bring about in his own time-God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.

  17. Never Give Up • Knowing Who You Are • Knowing the Eternal Perspective • Knowing the Charge

  18. Pray with me: • Lord Jesus, Living the Call Together is a life long task. Enable me to be a faithful person of God who never gives up on that calling. Give me confidence in who I am in you. Help me to remember that this temporary world is not everything as I embrace the charge to live the call of God in my life. Amen!

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