Eternal Resolutions

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Eternal Resolutions
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Top Ten New Years Resolutions

• Spend More Time with Family Friends
• Fit in Fitness
• Tame the Bulge
• Quit Smoking
• Enjoy Life More
• Quit Drinking
• Get Out of Debt
• Learn Something New
• Help Others
• Get Organized

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Spiritual Resolutions

• What About Spiritual Resolutions?
• To know Christ more
• Read the entire Bible this year
• Devote myself to prayer and Bible study daily
• Witness to one person a week

• What Do We Hear Instead?
• I dont pray like I should
• I dont read the Word as much as I should
• Ive been kind of dry spiritually
• I havent shared the Gospel with anyone

• Pauls challenge to us
• Be fervent (boiling) in Spirit! (Rom 1211)

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First Key to Being Fervent

• Remember, Repent, Redo!
• Deut 612 then take care lest you forget the
  Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
  out of the house of slavery.
• Rev 24 But I have this against you, that you
  have abandoned the love you had at first. 5
  Remember therefore from where you have fallen
  repent, and do the works you did at first.

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Second Key to Being Fervent

• Know the In Christ Realities!
• 2 Cor 517 (New creation in Christ)
• Eph 13 (Blessed with every spiritual blessing
  in Christ)
• 2 Cor 521 (The righteousness of God in Him)
• Col 210 (Full in Him)
• Heb 912 (Perfected in Him)
• Php 413 (Can do all things through Christ)
• Rom 81 (No condemnation in Christ)
• Rom 837 (More than conquerors through Him)
• Jn 157 (Every prayer answered In Him)

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Third Key to Being Fervent

• Be a DOER of the Word! (Jas 222-25)
• New Creation
• Put on the new man (Eph 424)
• The righteousness of God
• Awake to righteousness and sin not (1 Cor
  1534)
• No condemnation
• Judge yourselves (1 Cor 1127-32)
• More than conquerors
• Take up the whole armor of God (Eph 613)
• Every prayer answered
• Ask in faith (Jas 16)

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Jonathan Edwards
4. Resolved, never to do any manner of thing,
whether in soul or body, less or more, but what
tends to the glory of God nor be, nor suffer it,
if I can avoid it.   7. Resolved, never to do
anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it
were the last hour of my life.  10. Resolved,
when I feel pain, to think of the pains of
martyrdom, and of hell.  16. Resolved, never to
speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to
his dishonor, more or less, upon no account
except for some real good. 24. Resolved, whenever
I do any conspicuously evil action, to trace it
back, till I come to the original cause and
then, both carefully endeavor to do so no more,
and to fight and pray with all my might against
the original of it. 41. Resolved, to ask myself,
at the end of every day, week, month and year,
wherein I could possibly, in any respect, have
done better.
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7 Spiritual Objectives (Gideons)

• People of the Book
• Read (Psalm 1), Study (2 Tim 215), Memorize (Dt
  1118)
• People of Prayer
• 1 Sam 1223, Eph 618, Php 46
• People of Faith (We all have faith Rom 123)
• Heb 116, Mk 1122-24, 1 Jn 54
• People of a Separated Walk (all things pertaining
  to godliness 2 Pet 13)
• 2 Cor 614-18, Ro 1617-18, 2 Chr 291-5
• People Who Witness
• Acts 18, Prov 1130, 2 Cor 413
• People of Compassion (The Spirit has shed Gods
  love in our heart Rom 55)
• Mat 936, Psa 8615, 1 Pet 38
• People Who Give
• 2 Cor 824, Lk 638, 1 Chr 2911-14, 2 Cor 97