Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians
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Therefore hear the parable of the sower When
anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does
not understand it, then the wicked one comes and
snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is
he who received seed by the wayside. But he who
received the seed on stony places, this is he who
hears the word and immediately receives it with
joy yet he has no root in himself, but endures
only for a while. For when tribulation or
persecution arises because of the word,
immediately he stumbles. (Matthew 1318-21)
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Now he who received seed among the thorns is he
who hears the word, and the cares of this world
and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
and he becomes unfruitful. But he who received
seed on the good ground is he who hears the word
and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and
produces some a hundredfold, some sixty, some
thirty. (Matthew 1322,23)
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• For ones own relationship with God
• Do not be unequally yoked together with
  unbelievers. For what fellowship has
  righteousness with lawlessness? And what
  communion has light with darkness? And what
  accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a
  believer with an unbeliever?
  (2 Corinthians 614,15)

Being Separate From the World
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• For ones own relationship with God
• And what agreement has the temple of God with
  idols? For you are the temple of the living God.
  As God has said I will dwell in them and walk
  among them. I will be their God, and they shall
  be My people. Therefore, Come out from among
  them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch
  what is unclean, and I will receive you?
  (2 Corinthians
  616,17)

Being Separate From the World
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• For effectiveness in the world
• You are the salt of the earth but if the salt
  loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is
  then good for nothing but to be thrown out and
  trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of
  the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be
  hidden.
  (Matthew 513,14)

Being Separate From the World
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• For effectiveness in the world
• Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a
  basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to
  all who are in the house. Let your light so shine
  before men, that they may see your good works and
  glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 515,16)

Being Separate From the World
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• For effectiveness in the world
• That you may become blameless and harmless,
  children of God without fault in the midst of a
  crooked and perverse generation, among whom you
  shine as lights in the world, holding fast the
  word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of
  Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in
  vain.
  (Philippians 215,16)

Being Separate From the World
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• An upward outlook
• Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our
  outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is
  being renewed day by day. For our light
  affliction, which is but for a moment, is working
  for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
  glory. (2 Corinthians 416,17)

Keeping a Positive Attitude
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• An attitude of gratitude
• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
  prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
  your requests be made known to God and the peace
  of God, which surpasses all understanding, will
  guard your hearts and minds through Christ
  Jesus. (Philippians
  46,7)

Keeping a Positive Attitude
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• A focus on things beneficial and productive
• Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
  whatever things are noble, whatever things are
  just, whatever things are pure, whatever things
  are lovely, whatever things are of good report,
  if there is any virtue and if there is anything
  praiseworthy--meditate on these things.
  (Philippians 48)

Keeping a Positive Attitude
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Contentment
• Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have
  learned in whatever state I am, to be content I
  know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.
  Everywhere and in all things I have learned both
  to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and
  to suffer need.
  (Philippians 411,12)

Keeping a Positive Attitude
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• A can-do attitude
• I can do all things through Christ who
  strengthens me.
  (Philippians 413)

Keeping a Positive Attitude
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Continual
• Growth

• The need for growth
• For though by this time you ought to be
  teachers, you need someone to teach you again the
  first principles of the oracles of God and you
  have come to need milk and not solid food. For
  everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled
  in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
  But solid food belongs to those who are of full
  age, that is, those who by reason of use have
  their senses exercised to discern both good and
  evil. (Hebrews 512-14)

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Continual
• Growth

• Accomplished by feeding on Gods word
• Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit,
  hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as
  newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word,
  that you may grow thereby. (1 Peter 21,2)

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Continual
• Growth

• In faith and 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.
  (2 Thessalonians 13)

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Continual
• Growth

• Adding faith to ensure success
• But also for this very reason, giving all
  diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue
  knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to
  self-control perseverance, to perseverance
  godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and
  to brotherly kindness love.
  (2 Peter 15-7)

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Continual
• Growth

• Adding faith to ensure success
• For if these things are yours and abound, you
  will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the
  knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who
  lacks these things is shortsighted, even to
  blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed
  from his old sins.
  (2 Peter 18,9)

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• The high cost of living the Christian life
• For which of you, intending to build a tower,
  does not sit down first and count the cost,
  whether he has enough to finish it lest, after
  he has laid the foundation, and is not able to
  finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying,
  'This man began to build and was not able to
  finish. (Luke 1428-30)

Willing to Pay the Price for Success
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Salvation involves work
• Therefore, my beloved, as you have always
  obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
  more in my absence, work out your own salvation
  with fear and trembling.
  (Philippians 212)

Willing to Pay the Price for Success
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Temperance requires discipline
• And everyone who competes for the prize is
  temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain
  a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable
  crown. Therefore I run thus not with
  uncertainty. Thus I fight not as one who beats
  the air. But I discipline my body and bring it
  into subjection, lest, when I have preached to
  others, I myself should become disqualified.
  (1 Corinthians
  925-27)

Willing to Pay the Price for Success
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Growth requires giving all diligence.
• And we desire that each one of you show the same
  diligence to the full assurance of hope until the
  end. (Hebrews
  611)
• But also for this very reason, giving all
  diligence (2 Peter 15)

Willing to Pay the Price for Success
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• A necessary part of serving Christ
• And the King will answer and say to them,
  Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it
  to one of the least of these My brethren, you did
  it to Me. (Matthew 2540)

Dedication to Serving Others
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• When we, through love, serve others, we assure
  our hearts
• But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his
  brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him,
  how does the love of God abide in him? My little
  children, let us not love in word or in tongue,
  but in deed and in truth. (1 John 317,18)

Dedication to Serving Others
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• The measure of true success in the kingdom
• Yet it shall not be so among you but whoever
  desires to become great among you shall be your
  servant. And whoever of you desires to be first
  shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man
  did not come to be served, but to serve, and to
  give His life a ransom for many. (Mark 1043-45)

Dedication to Serving Others
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• That we may win others to Christ
• For though I am free from all men, I have made
  myself a servant to all, that I might win the
  more. and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I
  might win Jews to those who are under the law,
  as under the law, that I might win those who are
  under the law. (1 Corinthians 919,20)

Dedication to Serving Others
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Take advantage of opportunities when they arise.
• Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your
  might for there is no work or device or
  knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are
  going. (Ecclesiastes 910)

Being Effective Time Managers
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• Today is the day to serve God youre running out
  of time.
• For He says In an acceptable time I have heard
  you, and in the day of salvation I have helped
  you. Behold, now is the accepted time behold,
  now is the day of salvation.
  (2 Corinthians 62)

Being Effective Time Managers
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• Time is to be redeemed.
• Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
  (Ephesians 516)
• Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside,
  redeeming the time. (Colossians 45)

Being Effective Time Managers
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Looking unto Jesus.
• Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
  our faith, who for the joy that was set before
  Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
  has sat down at the right hand of the throne of
  God. (Hebrews 122)

Keeping Their Eyes on the Goal
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• Looking to attain to the resurrection from the
  dead
• That I may know Him and the power of His
  resurrection, and the fellowship of His
  sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by
  any means, I may attain to the resurrection from
  the dead. (Philippians 310,11)

Keeping Their Eyes on the Goal
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• Looking for a city to come-- heaven
• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has
  begotten us again to a living hope through the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
  inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that
  does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.
  (1 Peter 13,4)

Keeping Their Eyes on the Goal
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Christians

• Being Separate from the World
• Keeping a Positive Attitude
• Continual Growth
• Willing to Pay the Price for Success
• Dedication to Serving Others
• Being Effective Time Managers
• Keeping Their Eyes on the Goal

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I am the true vine, and My Father is the
vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not
bear fruit He takes away and every branch that
bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more
fruit. You are already clean because of the word
which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
unless it abides in the vine, neither can you,
unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are
the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him,
bears much fruit for without Me you can do
nothing. (John 151-5)
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If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out
as a branch and is withered and they gather them
and throw them into the fire, and they are
burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in
you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall
be done for you. By this My Father is glorified,
that you bear much fruit so you will be My
disciples. (John 156-8)