Living Beneath Our Privileges

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1 Chronicles 167-36
Rising Above Minimal Service
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Rising Above Minimal Service
Introduction

• Many want to just SQUEAK by in their service to
  God.
• God does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
  (Matthew 2514-30)
• What are some things we CAN do to rise above
  mediocrity?

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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
Philip. 19 And this I pray, that your love
may abound still more and more in knowledge and
all discernment,
We are to abound in love
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
1 Thessalonians 312
We are to abound in love
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in
love one to another to one and to all, just as we
do to you.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
2 Thessalonians 13
We are to abound in love
We are bound to thank God always for you,
brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith
grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of
you all abounds toward each other.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
Colossians 26,7
We are to abound in love. We are
to abound in obedience.
As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him
and established in the faith, as you have been
taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
We are to abound in love. We are
to abound in obedience.
1 Thessalonians 41
Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in
the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and
more, just as you received from us how you ought
to walk and to please God.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
2 Corinthians 83-4
We are to abound in love. We are
to abound in obedience.
For I bear witness that according to their
ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were
freely willing, imploring us with much urgency
that we would receive the gift and the
fellowship of the ministering to the saints...
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
2 Corinthians 85,6
And not only as we had hoped, but they first
gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by
the will of God. So we urged Titus, that as he
had begun, so he would also complete this grace
in you as well....
We are to abound in love. We are
to abound in obedience.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
2 Corinthians 87
We are to abound in love. We are
to abound in obedience.
But as you abound in everything--in faith, in
speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in
your love for us--see that you abound in this
grace also.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
We are to abound in love. We are
to abound in obedience. We are to abound in
service.
1 Corinthians 1558
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
immovable, always abounding in the work of the
Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in
the Lord.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
God Does NOT Accept minimal effort and service.
Titus 214
Titus 214 Who gave Himself for us, that He
might redeem us from every lawless deed and
purify for Himself His own special people,
zealous for good works.
Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us
from every lawless deed and purify for Himself
His own special people, zealous for good works.
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Rising Above Minimal Service
1 Chronicles 167-36

• Seek God (8-13)
• Submit to God (14-19)
• Trust God (20-24)
• Respect God (25-27)
• Worship God (28-30)
• Rejoice in God (31-33)
• Give Thanks to God (34,35)

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Rising Above Minimal Service
1 Chronicles 167-36

• We have control over our beliefs, attitudes, and
  actions.
• Our effort to abound in the things God has given
  us to do is directly related to our love, (or
  lack thereof) for Him (1 John 52).
• The amount of success and growth achieved is
  related to the combined, cooperative efforts of
  those who seek to excel.

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Rising Above Minimal Service
1 Chronicles 167-36

• Let us ALL determine to rise above minimal
  service and ABOUND in our work for the Lord. (2
  Pt. 15-10 2 Cor. 1558)
• Have you yielded yourself to God, to serve Him
  from the heart? (Romans 616-18)
• Have you yielded to the temptation to offer
  minimal service? (Matthew 2514-30)