Get Real


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June 12, 2016

Sermon Notes—“Get Real"
“We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.” 
Colossians 1:28 (NIV84)

Lesson Text 

14Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, 18but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
2 Peter 3:14–18 (NASB95)

Peter’s final instructions for the church:

1. GET REAL!

24Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!

1 Corinthians 9:24 (NLT)

2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 3And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1 John 3:2–3 (NASB95)

1Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.

Colossians 3:1–2 (NASB95)

Be ALL IN with God’s redemption plan.

4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

Romans 2:4 (NIV)

23“Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

Luke 14:23 (NIV)

GUARD yourself against false teachers. 

24For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Matthew 24:24 (ESV)

12Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

1 Corinthians 10:12 (NASB95)

Grow in your KNOWLEDGE of the Lord and your DEPENDENCE on Him. 

5Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
2 Peter 1:5 (NASB95)

Scarcity brings clarity. God is never de-railed.

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