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REFINED BY FIRE

REFINED BY FIRE. JoLynn Gower 493-6151 352-2458 jgower@guardingthetruth.org. WORD FOR THE JOURNEY.

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REFINED BY FIRE

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  1. REFINED BY FIRE JoLynn Gower 493-6151 352-2458 jgower@guardingthetruth.org

  2. WORD FOR THE JOURNEY • Matthew 7:21-23  "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROMME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' • Does: poieo: to perform (especially as a poet) • Practice: ergazomai: to perform or work • Matthew 7:13-14  "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

  3. RUNNING TO WIN • 1 Corinthians 9:24  Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. • IF I WIN, DO YOU LOSE? WHO ARE WE RACING? • Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us… • Endurance: hupomone: steadfastness; unwaivering patience • The actual race is against the world, the flesh, and the devil; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life • Jeremiah 1:5  "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." • Consecrated: qadash: set apart for a purpose

  4. BEING AND DOING • Romans 12:3-5  For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. • Matthew 18:19 "Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.” • Agree: sumphoneo: to be in harmony; to play parts like a symphony

  5. ALL OF US • 1 Corinthians 12:7-11  But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills. • Knowing that God has gifted us for a purpose gives us perspective on our world; the world is fallen – sinful; but we are working in the world

  6. WORKING IN THE WORLD • Matthew 28:18-20  And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." • AUTHORITY: given by someone to someone has a domain of action (boundaries in which it can operate) acts according to the rules established by the one who gave the authority • Colossians 3:23-24  Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

  7. EACH DAY ORDAINED • Psalm 139:16 …And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. • Ordained: yatsar: squeezed into shape; to form or fashion • Cecropia moth story • Like the moth beating its wings against the cocoon builds up the muscle for flight, God builds up our spiritual muscle in times of adversity and trial • Romans 5:3-5 And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

  8. COUNT IT ALL JOY • James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,  knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. • Not joy because of bad circumstances • In bad circumstances we have confidence that God is in control and working to perfect us • Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

  9. GOD DOESN’T QUIT • People sometimes give up on us; they drop out; they quit • Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. • Hebrews 13:20-21  Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. • John 15:2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.” • takes away: airo: lifts up, bears up, carries away

  10. SOME GOOD ADVICE • Experiencing God; Blackaby and King 1. SUBMIT TO WHAT GOD IS DOING: Insofar as you can see what God is doing, determine to make His purpose your purpose. • Hebrews 10:32-36  But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated. For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

  11. SOME GOOD ADVICE (part 2) 2. APPLY PERTINENT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE TO THE SITUATION. Ask God to show us how we can use scripture to understand the way He wants us to profit from the truths He reveals. • 2 Corinthians 1:3-7  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

  12. SOME GOOD ADVICE (part 3) 3. REMEMBER THE LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED INADVERSITY; remember trials as a means for growth • Deuteronomy 8:2-6 "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

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