Start Stop Chart for Following Jesus by Michael

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Flee - run from and keep running from the things we just discussed. (Pre imp)

Pursue

Start Stop Chart for Following Jesus

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1 Timothy 6:11-21

Flee - run from and keep running from the things we just discussed. (Pre imp)

Pursue

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Flee!

Pres act imp

The things that hinder contentment in the Lord

The love of money instead of the love of God.....

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Pursue

And keep chasing until you catch it

Righteousness - a life that conforms to God's construct for living

Godliness - emphasis on the actual practices that strengthen our walk with God

Means of grace illustration here

Faith quality of trust in God and the impact that trust has on our actual lifestyle

See Psalm 20:7. trust in God

Love - the selfless compassion for others that compels us to act on someone else's behalf, often at great sacrifice to ourselves

Patience - stand firm, remain under, endurance under a heavy load

Gentleness - attribute visible in our behavior towards others that is the opposite of aggressive, fruit of the spirit Gal 5:23

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Fight the good fight of faith

Pres imp

To engage in an attack, to contest with someone

Paul actually uses this construct to describe the end of his ministry in 2 Timothy 4:7....

There are fights worth getting into

They relate to our trust in God

There are good fights and there are bad ones.....

Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.
1 Cor. 9:26

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

2 Cor 10:3-5

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.....

6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Grab

Hold on to and make it your own

Pres imp

Lay hold of KJV.....

To the eternal life to which God called you

Which you declared .....reference to his commissioning

See Jn 18:36-37.

1 Tim 1:18, 4:14, refer to that moment. Similar language with fighting the good fight

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Keep

Maintain this eternal life

That you testified to

That Jesus himself models for us

Notice the emphasis on good......

the good fight

the good testimony

(Illus. sound, solid, you can trust it to hold you)

That is the command. Above all else that this command to lay hold of grab tightly.....

Be obeyed. If you do so.....then you will avoid the stains that come from sinful compromise and diminish the strength or firmness of your testimony

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