Be Fervent

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Be Fervent

• Hebrews 69-12

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Do not be sluggish! Heb. 611-12

• Little movement, slow, inactive
• Be fervent
• zeo To boil with heat, be hot (Rom. 1211)
• ektenes To stretch out, stretch forthintently,
  strenuously, instantly, earnestly (1 Pet. 48)
• energeo to be operative, be at work, put forth
  power (Jas. 516)

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Be Fervent in Spirit Romans 1211 Acts
1825

• Give all diligence, 2 Pet. 15
• Zeal, Titus 214 (2 Cor. 77)
• Boldness, Phil. 120
• Determination, Phil. 312-15
• Desire, Luke 2215
• Endurance, Heb. 121-2 (Gal. 69)
• Faith that will not draw back, Heb. 1039

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Be Fervent in Love 1 Peter 48 (Prov.
1012)

• With a pure heart, 1 Pet. 122
• Love for one another, James 519-20
• Love for God, 1 John 52-3
• Love for Gods word, Psalm 11997
• Love for the lost, Matthew 2239
• Love for our enemies, Matthew 544-45
• Keep yourselves in Gods love, Jude 21

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Be Fervent in Prayer James 516-17
Acts 125

• Prayer is powerful (avails much)
• Continue earnestly, Col. 42
• Labor fervently, Col. 412
• In sufferings, James 513-16
• Zealous endurance, Luke 181-8
• Never lose heart

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A Fervent Heat 2 Peter 310, 12

• Future heat is reason to be holy, 311
• Our necessary obligation
• Pain of eternal fire is incentive to be fervent
  in our faith, Mark 945-46

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Be Fervent Hebrews 612

• The spiritually sluggish do not inherit the
  promises of God!
• Fervent in spirit (as servants of God)
• Fervent in love (with a pure heart)
• Fervent in prayer (blessings from God)
• In view of the fervent heat to come!