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Title: HOW CHRISTIANS GROW UP


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GROWING UP
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GROWING UP
  • You therefore, beloved, since you know this
    beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your
    own steadfastness, being led away with the error
    of the wicked but grow in the grace and
    knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
    Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. (2
    Peter 318)

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GROWING UP
  • And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
    prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
    teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the
    work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of
    Christ, till we all come to the unity of the
    faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to
    a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of
    the fullness of Christ that we should no longer
    be children, tossed to and fro and carried about
    with every wind of doctrine,

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GROWING UP
  • by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness
    of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in
    love, may grow up in all things into Him who is
    the head--Christ-- from whom the whole body,
    joined and knit together by what every joint
    supplies, according to the effective working by
    which every part does its share, causes growth of
    the body for the edifying of itself in love.
    (Eph. 411-16)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP
  • BY TAKING UP
  • BY KEEPING UP
  • BY LAYING UP

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WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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GROWING UP
  • Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone
    desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,
    and take up his cross, and follow Me." (Matt.
    1624)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
10
GROWING UP
  • Do not love the world or the things in the world.
    If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father
    is not in him. For all that is in the world--the
    lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the
    pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the
    world. And the world is passing away, and the
    lust of it but he who does the will of God
    abides forever. (1 John 215-17)

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GROWING UP
  • "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?" (Matt.
    1626)

12
WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
13
WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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GROWING UP
  • "'These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
    And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is
    far from Me. And in vain they worship Me,
    Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"
    (Matt. 158-9)

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GROWING UP
  • Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
    doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who
    abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the
    Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and
    does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
    into your house nor greet him for he who greets
    him shares in his evil deeds. (2 John 9-11)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
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WE GROW UP
  • BY GIVING UP

SELF WORLD ERROR FAMILY
18
GROWING UP
  • "Do not think that I came to bring peace on
    earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
    For I have come to 'set a man against his father,
    a daughter against her mother, and a
    daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law' and
    'a man's enemies will be those of his own
    household.' He who loves father or mother more
    than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son
    or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me."
    (Matt. 1034-37)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
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GROWING UP
  • "And he who does not take his cross and follow
    after Me is not worthy of Me." (Matt. 1038)

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GROWING UP
  • "Do not fear what you are about to suffer.
    Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you
    into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten
    days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto
    death, and I will give you the crown of life."
    (Rev. 210)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
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GROWING UP
  • For the grace of God that brings salvation has
    appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying
    ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
    soberly, righteously, and godly in the present
    age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious
    appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus
    Christ, 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. (Titus 211-14)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
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GROWING UP
  • "I have given them Your word and the world has
    hated them because they are not of the world,
    just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that
    You should take them out of the world, but that
    You should keep them from the evil one. They are
    not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
    Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth."
    (John 1714-17)

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GROWING UP
  • Since you have purified your souls in obeying the
    truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the
    brethren, love one another fervently with a pure
    heart, having been born again, not of
    corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the
    word of God which lives and abides forever,

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GROWING UP
  • because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory
    of man as the flower of the grass. The grass
    withers, And its flower falls away, But the word
    of the Lord endures forever." Now this is the
    word which by the gospel was preached to you. (1
    Peter 122-25)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY TAKING UP

CROSS GODLINESS TRUTH KINGDOM FIRST
29
GROWING UP
  • "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we
    eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we
    wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles
    seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you
    need all these things. But seek first the
    kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all
    these things shall be added to you." (Matt.
    631-33)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING STUDY LOVE
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GROWING UP
  • And let us consider one another in order to stir
    up love and good works, not forsaking the
    assembling of ourselves together, as is the
    manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so
    much the more as you see the Day approaching.
    (Heb. 1024-25)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING STUDY LOVE
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GROWING UP
  • On the first day of the week let each one of you
    lay something aside, storing up as he may
    prosper, that there be no collections when I
    come. (1 Cor. 162)

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GROWING UP
  • But this I say He who sows sparingly will also
    reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will
    also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he
    purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of
    necessity for God loves a cheerful giver. (2
    Cor. 96-7)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING DILIGENCE LOVE
36
GROWING UP
  • Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
    a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
    dividing the word of truth. (2 Tim. 215)

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GROWING UP
  • 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. For if these things
    are yours and abound, you will be neither barren
    nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
    Christ.

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GROWING UP
  • For he who lacks these things is shortsighted,
    even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was
    cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren,
    be even more diligent to make your call and
    election sure, for if you do these things you
    will never stumble for so an entrance will be
    supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting
    kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2
    Peter 15-11)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY KEEPING UP

ATTENDANCE GIVING DILIGENCE LOVE
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GROWING UP
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, but have not love, I have become sounding
brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the
gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my
goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body
to be burned, but have not love, it profits me
nothing. (1 Cor. 131-3)
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GROWING UP
  • Love suffers long and is kind love does not
    envy love does not parade itself, is not puffed
    up does not behave rudely, does not seek its
    own, is not provoked, thinks no evil does not
    rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth
    bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
    things, endures all things. Love never fails. But
    whether there are prophecies, they will fail
    whether there are tongues, they will cease
    whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
    (1 Cor. 134-8)

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GROWING UP
  • Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you
    know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in
    him. By this we know love, because He laid down
    His life for us. And we also ought to lay down
    our lives for the brethren. (1 John 315-16)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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GROWING UP
  • Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow
    of wickedness, and receive with meekness the
    implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
    But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
    deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer
    of the word and not a doer, he is like a man
    observing his natural face in a mirror for he
    observes himself, goes away, and immediately
    forgets what kind of man he was.

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GROWING UP
  • But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty
    and continues in it, and is not a forgetful
    hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be
    blessed in what he does. (James 121-25)

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GROWING UP
  • Do all things without complaining and disputing,
    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. (Phil. 214-16)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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GROWING UP
  • For whatever things were written before were
    written for our learning, that we through the
    patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have
    hope. (Rom. 154)

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GROWING UP
  • And we desire that each one of you show the same
    diligence to the full assurance of hope until the
    end, that you do not become sluggish, but
    imitate those who through faith and patience
    inherit the promises. For when God made a
    promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no
    one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, "Surely
    blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will
    multiply you."

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GROWING UP
  • And so, after he had patiently endured, he
    obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by the
    greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them
    an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to
    show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the
    immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an
    oath,

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GROWING UP
  • that by two immutable things, in which it is
    impossible for God to lie, we might have strong
    consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold
    of the hope set before us. This hope we have as
    an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
    and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
    where the forerunner has entered for us, even
    Jesus, having become High Priest forever
    according to the order of Melchizedek. (Heb.
    611-20)

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GROWING UP
  • Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
    sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace
    that is to be brought to you at the revelation of
    Jesus Christ as obedient children, not
    conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in
    your ignorance but as He who called you is holy,
    you also be holy in all your conduct, because it
    is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." (1 Peter
    113-16)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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GROWING UP
  • "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth,
    where moth and rust destroy and where thieves
    break in and steal but lay up for yourselves
    treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
    destroys and where thieves do not break in and
    steal. For where your treasure is, there your
    heart will be also. (Matt. 619-21)

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GROWING UP
  • Command those who are rich in this present age
    not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain
    riches but in the living God, who gives us richly
    all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they
    be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to
    share, storing up for themselves a good
    foundation for the time to come, that they may
    lay hold on eternal life. (1 Tim. 617-19)

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WE GROW UP
  • BY LAYING UP

WORD HOPE TREASURES CROWN OF LIFE
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GROWING UP
  • Blessed is the man who endures temptation for
    when he has been approved, he will receive the
    crown of life which the Lord has promised to
    those who love Him. (James 112)

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GROWING UP
  • Do not fear any of those things which you are
    about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to
    throw some of you into prison, that you may be
    tested, and you will have tribulation ten days.
    Be faithful until death, and I will give you the
    crown of life. (Rev. 210 )

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