For Different Classes of

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For Different Classes of
SEEKERS

• Helpful
• Passages
• cf. 2 Timothy 316-17

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2 Timothy 316-17

• All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,
  and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
  correction, for instruction in righteousness,
  17 that the man of God may be complete,
  thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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For Backsliders

• Jeremiah 219
• Your own wickedness will correct you, And
  your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore
  and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That
  you have forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear
  of Me is not in you, Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

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For Backsliders

• Jeremiah 313
• Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you
  have transgressed against the LORD your God, And
  have scattered your charms To alien deities under
  every green tree, And you have not obeyed My
  voice, says the LORD. Return, O backsliding
  children," says the LORD.

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For Backsliders

• Hosea 144
• I will heal their backsliding, I will love
  them freely, For My anger has turned away from
  him.

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For theSlightly Convicted

• Ecclesiastes 720
• For there is not a just man on earth who
  does good And does not sin.

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For theSlightly Convicted

• Isaiah 536
• All we like sheep have gone astray We have
  turned, every one, to his own way And the LORD
  has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

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For theSlightly Convicted

• Ephesians 28-9
• For by grace you have been saved through
  faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift
  of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should
  boast.

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For those who areToo Great of Sinners

• Isaiah 118
• Come now, and let us reason together,
  Says the LORD, Though your sins are like
  scarlet, They shall be as white as snow Though
  they are red like crimson, They shall be as
  wool.

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For those who areToo Great of Sinners

• Isaiah 4422
• I have blotted out, like a thick cloud,
  your transgressions, And like a cloud, your sins.
  Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

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For those who areToo Great of Sinners

• Romans 56-8
• For when we were still without strength, in
  due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For
  scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet
  perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to
  die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward
  us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
  died for us.

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For those Who FearThey May Falter

• Isaiah 431-2
• But now, thus says the LORD, who created
  you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel
  "Fear not, for I have redeemed you I have called
  you by your name You are Mine. 2 When you pass
  through the waters, I will be with you And
  through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
  When you walk through the fire, you shall not be
  burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

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For those Who FearThey May Falter

• 1 Corinthians 1013
• No temptation has overtaken you except such
  as is common to man but God is faithful, who
  will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you
  are able, but with the temptation will also make
  the way of escape, that you may be able to bear
  it.

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For those Who FearThey May Falter

• 2 Corinthians 129
• And He said to me, My grace is sufficient
  for you, for My strength is made perfect in
  weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather
  boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
  may rest upon me.

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For those Who Wait for aMore Convenient Season

• Proverbs 271
• Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not
  know what a day may bring forth.

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For those Who Wait for aMore Convenient Season

• James 413, 17
• (13), Come now, you who say, Today or
  tomorrow we will go to such and such a city,
  spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a
  profit
• (17), Therefore, to him who knows to do good and
  does not do it, to him it is sin.

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For those Who Wait for aMore Convenient Season

• Hebrews 313
• But exhort one another daily, while it is
  called Today, lest any of you be hardened
  through the deceitfulness of sin.

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For those Who StumbleAt the Failings of Others

• Romans 1412
• So then each of us shall give account of
  himself to God.

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For those Who StumbleAt the Failings of Others

• John 2121-22
• Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, But
  Lord, what about this man? (John) 22 Jesus
  said to him, If I will that he remain till I
  come, what is that to you? You follow Me.

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For those Who Have TooMany Things to Give Up

• Mark 835-37
• For whoever desires to save his life will
  lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake
  and the gospel's will save it. 36 For what will
  it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and
  loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give
  in exchange for his soul?

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For those Who Have TooMany Things to Give Up

• Philippians 37-8
• But what things were gain to me, these I
  have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I
  also count all things loss for the excellence of
  the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I
  have suffered the loss of all things, and count
  them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.

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Conclusion

• All answers are in the book!
• Trust in it to know Gods will for
  you!