Text: II Peter 1:5-8
Virtues
1. moral excellence
2. knowledge
3. self-control
4. perseverance
5. godliness
6. brotherly kindness
7. love
Preaching = Bro. Deni Koswardi
Walking Carefully/Wisely
Text: Ephesians 5:15-18
Walk with those who are wise. Dead in tresspasses. Alive to God. Be on the alert. Choose steps carefully. Warned that the days are evil.
3 Essentials to Walk Carefully and Wisely.
1. Use your time wisely. v. 16
* Consider carefully how you will spend your life. Walk Carefully. Walk Wisely. Spirit of love, power, and discipline. Submissive and Skillfully (wisdom). Fear of the Lord beginning of wisdom (Prov. 9:10). Say NO to other works to be able to sat YES to heavenly things.
* Warning: Being unwise (knowing His Word but not applying it).
* TIP: Reading Bible 5 mn/day again and again. Never neglect fellowship with believers.
* VS: Non-believer- bondage in sin & futile works; Believer - redeeming the time, buying back time.
2. Understand d Will of d Lord v. 17
- Will of God = Navigation Chart
- X e.g. Tending to personalize sceneries in pictures
- God's Will: God's overall plan for salvation. Live life in line with it.
* Submit to Lordship of Christ. Be part of His Church universally and locally. Committed. Live in harmoniously with other believers (united).
3. Controlled by the Holy Spirit. v.18
- not induced by drunkeness,
but filled with the Holy Spirit.
* Be being kept filled. not dwelt in/baptized, but controlled. moment by moment. constant. continuously filled. passive. permeates and flavor your life
* HOW: surrender everything to His will. Death of you/Emptying of yourself so He will fill you up.
* EFFECTS: Singing. Thanking God Everyday. Submitting. Obedient Children. Unprovoking Parents. (v. 19 onwards) affects all relationship to God, family, believers, & non-believers
v. Col 3:16= parallel verse. Therefore, Filled with Holy Spirit= Word of God richly dwell in you/ dominate you= Presence of Christ in your life
* Evaluate the pattern of your life.
NPV: Hebrews 2:17
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