Spiritual Exercise

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Spiritual Exercise
1 Tim. 47
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Spiritual Exercise
But reject profane and old wives' fables, and
exercise yourself toward godliness. For bodily
exercise profits a little, but godliness is
profitable for all things, having promise of the
life that now is and of that which is to
come. 1 Tim. 47-8
Gymnazo gymnasium
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Matthew 1626
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the
whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will
a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Spiritual Exercise
Godliness
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I. How to get Exercise ?
godly
Real religion Jas. 121-27 But be doers of the
word, and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves. v. 22
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I. How to get Exercise ?
godly
Real religion Jas. 121-27 If anyone among you
thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his
tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's
religion is useless. v. 26
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I. How to get Exercise ?
godly
Real religion Jas. 121-27 Pure and undefiled
religion before God and the Father is this to
visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to
keep oneself unspotted from the world. v. 27
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Heb. 512-14
godly

• Babes - Full Age
• Unskillful
• Eph.411-16 - mature
• 2 Pet. 318 grow

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Matt. 2818-20
godly

• Teaching others
• Active Verbs go
• Teach
• Baptize
• Teach

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Heb. 1211 E.S.V.
godly
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the
present, but painful nevertheless, afterward it
yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to
those who have been trained by it.
Discipline
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II. Results of Exercise
Grow Strong and Mature
Heb.513-14
Milk unskillful Meat full age
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1 Cor. 1613
Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be
strong.

• Mature can see danger
• 1 Thess. 5 discern and abstain
• Mature make good decisions

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Eph. 414
We should no longer be children, tossed to and
fro and carried about with every wind of
doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning
craftiness of deceitful plotting.
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III. Value of Godliness
In this life

• 1. To Our nation
• Prov. 1334 - exalts a nation
• Deut. 2616-19 godly homes and individuals

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III. Value of Godliness
In this life

• 2. To other People
• Lead others to God
• Matt. 514-16

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III. Value of Godliness
In this life

• 3. To Our self
• In sin separated, dead
• In Christ - forgiven

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III. Value of Godliness
In this life
3. To Our self For the eyes of the Lord are over
the righteous, and his ears are open to their
prayers. 1 Pet. 312
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III. Value of Godliness
In this life
3. To Our self My little children, these things
write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any
man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous
1 Jn. 21
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III. Value of Godliness
In life to come
Eternal life 1 Tim. 619 With God in
heaven Heaven prepared Home of the soul
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Rev. 2127
But there shall by no means enter it anything
that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie,
but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book
of Life.
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Spiritual Exercise

• Promise of the Life here and hereafter
• More important than physical exercise

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Meet Sue Herndan
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2 Cor. 135
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the
faith. Test yourselves.
Will you start exercising?
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Don't bother just to be better than your
contemporaries or predecessors, be better than
yourself...
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In Christ SAVED
What Must I Do To be Saved ?
Baptized (Gal.327)
Confess (Rom.1010)
Repent (Lk.133)
Believe (Jn.824)
Hear (Rom.1017)