DID YOU ASK FOR A SAFETY NET

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DID YOU ASK FOR A SAFETY NET?
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• We all stumble in many ways
  
• James
  32

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Surrender Cockiness
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• They are clouds without rainautumn trees
  without fruit and uprooted -- twice deadwild
  waves of the seas, foaming up their shame
  wandering stars for whom blackest darkness has
  been reserved forever
• 
  Jude 12-13

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Remember Obedience and Follow-Through Are Key
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• sure there are men who fall and fail badly
  who areworldly minded people, devoid of the
  Holy Spirit and destitute of any higher spiritual
  life. But you, beloved, build yourself up,
  founded on our most holy faith -- making
  progress, risinghigher and higher guarding
  and keeping yourselves in the love of God
• 
  Jude 19-21

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Expect Criticism and Griping
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• Why those messing up the church, addressed in
  Jude are grumblers and faultfinders they
  follow their own evil desires
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  Jude 16

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• Jesus notes, they hated me first. If you
  belonged to the world -- it would love you as its
  own. As it is -- you do not belong to the world
  -- but I have chosen you out of the world. That
  is why the world hates you
• John 1518-19

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• It's a fact that "hurt people hurt people."
  They usually dislike themselves and criticize
  others in a misguided effort to validate
  themselves. If one of these injured souls lobs a
  criticism grenade in your direction, defuse it
  with understanding

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• Choose compassion over depressionConsider
  the sourceDismiss it and move on. If you don't,
  you may become the very thing you despise.
• Craig Groeschel.

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Celebrate Our God Is Able!
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• To him, to God who is able to keep you from
  falling
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  Jude 24

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• God is able to establish us by his
  gospelaccording to themystery hidden for long
  ages past.
• Romans 1625

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• God is able to do immeasurably more than all
  we ask, or imagine
• Ephesians 320

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• God is able!

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