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  • 2015 National Training NT 1505 2015 National Training NT 1505
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  • INTRODUCTION 28 And we know that god causes everything to work together for the good of those who love love god and are called according to his purpose for them. 29 For god knew his people in advance and he chose them to become like his son, so that his son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters. ROM 8:28-29 NLT. THERE IS A DIVINE PURPOSE FOR YOUR SALVATION. HE CHOSE (SAVED) YOU TO GROW AND BECOME LIKE HIS SON JESUS.
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  • THE DIVINE PURPOSE. God deeply desires that his children will grow from infancy to Spiritual Maturity, fully resembling Christ who is the express image of the invisible god and the first born among many brothers and sisters. Col 1:15, Rom 8:29, Eph 4:13. If you are born again and you are not growing into becoming like Him in all things, then you are living contrary to his purpose and will remain immature and unprofitable to god.
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  • EVIDENCE OF SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY SPIRITUAL IMMATURITY MANIFESTS IN DIVERSE WAYS. INABILITY TO PERSEVERE James 1:4 FOCUS ON TEMPORAL (MATERIAL) THINGS 2Cor.4:18 CHILDISHNESS & INSTABILITY Eph. 4: 14 DULNESS IN HEARING Heb. 5:11 CARNALITY (WORLDLINESS) 1Cor. 3: 1-4 MANIFESTATION OF THE WORKS OF THE FLESH Gal 5:19-21
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  • WHY MUST I GROW SPIRITUALLY? An immature child is not better than a slave even though he is an heir. He has to be perpetually subjected to tutors and guardians. Gal 4:1-2. A spiritual dwarf cannot be entrusted with deep things of the spirit.1cor. 2:6 Lack of growth brings sorrow to any parent: Physical maturity is not equivalent to Spiriiual maturity. Growth is a major characteristic of living things and is not optional. Gods purpose for the earth suffers damage when handled by immature hands. Gen 1: 26-28.
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  • THE END POINT OF OUR GROWTH 1. GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE TO FULFIL HIS PURPOSE on the earth, but the image was lost with the fall of man and now again revealed in Jesus Christ. Gen. 1: 26-28; 6:5; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:1-3. 3 IMPORTANT FACTS. 2. GOD DESIRES THAT ALL HIS CHILDREN WILL GROW in conformity to his image (like father like son): TO BECOME LIKE JESUS IN LIFE AND PURPOSE and constitute a big divine family establishing his will on the earth. Rom. 8:29; JOHN 20:21. 3. Being born again is not an end in itself but the beginning of a growth process that ends in mature Christlikeness. Eph. 4:13,15.
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  • THE DIVINE PATTERN AND STANDARD OF OUR GROWTH. JESUS CHRIST IS GODS APPROVED DESIGN AND STANDARD MEASUREMENT OF CHRISTIAN MATURITY. NO OTHER MAN LIVING OR DEAD HAS BEEN SO DESIGNATED. EPHESIANS 4:13 KJV 13 TILL WE ALL COME IN THE UNITY OF THE FAITH, AND OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD, UNTO A PERFECT MAN, UNTO: THE MEASURE OF THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST.
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  • ARE YOU FIRMLY GROUNDED IN THIS BASIC FOUNDATION OF THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CHRIST OR YOU MERELY JUMPED UNTO ADVANCED LEVEL? WITHOUT A CORRECT FOUNDATION, WHAT YOU ARE BUILDING WILL SUFFER STRUCTURAL DEFECTS AND COLLAPSE IN TIME TO COME. MATT 7:24-27 1. REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS 6. ETERNAL JUDGEMENT.. 4. LAYING ON OF HANDS 3.DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS 5.RESSURECTION OF THE DEAD. 2. FAITH TOWARDS GOD Heb: 6:1 Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ, let us go on unto perfection.
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  • PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GROWTH. SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS NOT HAPHAZARD BUT IS A SYSTEMATIC, PROGRESSIVE AND CUMMULATIVE INCREASE IN CHRISTLIKENESS UNTO PERFECTION. As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.
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  • PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GROWTH. Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Pet 1: 3, 5-8 NLT)
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  • PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH THREE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF GROWTH. 1. NATURE : THE INTRINSIC (BASIC) QUALITY OF LIFE 2.NURTURE:NOURISHMENT 3.FRUIT : PRODUCT OF NATURE AND NURTURE. According to Gods ordination in Gen 1: 24-25, each living thing was made after his kind and is to give birth according to its kind. Every baby so born will feed according to its kind and grow unto maturity to manifest the fruit of its kind (parents) in all things. Matt 7: 16-20.
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  • PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH 1.NATURE AT BIRTH 1.NATURE AT BIRTH. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN. JOHN 3:3-7; MATT 3:8-10;LUK 9:23; THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. JOHN 3:6-7. FLESH CANNOT GROW INTO SPIRIT, NEITHER CAN IT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 1 COR 15:50. NATURAL BIRTH IS BY THE WILL OF MAN (THE FLESH) THROUGH SEED WHICH IS CORRUPTED RIGHT FROM CONCEPTION BUT SPIRITUAL BIRTH IS BY THE WILL OF GOD THROUGH INCORRUPTIBLE SEED. JOHN 1:12; PSALM 51:5 IT IS ONLY THOSE BORN OF THE SPIRIT (THROUGH INCORRUPTIBLE SEED), SEQUEL TO THEIR BIRTH IN THE FLESH THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GROW IN THE SPIRIT UNTO SPIRITUAL MATURITY. THEREFORE, GENUINE NEW BIRTH IS THE STARTING POINT OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH AS YOU CANNOT GROW WHAT IS NOT BORN. JOHN 1:13, 1 PET 1:23, MATT 11:28-30 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 1 Peter 1:23KJV
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  • PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH 2. NURTURE 2. NURTURE YOU CANNOT GROW THE ETERNAL (PERFECT) LIFE BY LIVING ON PERISHABLE, TEMPORAL FOOD OF MANS WISDOM, PHILOSOPHIES, PSYCHOLOGY ETC. COL. 2:8; HEB 13:9. LACK OF CONSISTENT FEEDING ON THE WORD LEADS TO MALNOURISHMENT SPIRITUAL KWASHIORKOR. 1TIM 4:13-16 THE WORD OF GOD IS THE BALANCED DIET AND COMPREHENSIVE FOOD FOR GROWING THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST UNTO PERFECTION. 2TIM 2:15, 3:16-17 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim 3:16-17 KJV
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  • BABIES NEED MILK TO GROW BUT SOLID FOOD IS FOR THE MATURE. GOOD APPETITE, REGULAR FEEDING AND CONSTANT MEDITATION (DIGESTION) OF EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD (BALANCED DIET) LEADS TO MATURITY. MATT 4:4 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 1 Peter 2:2-3NIV We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. Heb 5:11-14NIV
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  • PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH 2. NURTURE 2. NURTURE OTHER INGREDIENTS OF GROWTH EFFECTIVE PRAYER LIFE (COMMUNION WITH GOD) FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER BELIEVERS 1JOHN 1:3 WITNESSING YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST. MARK 16:20 DISCIPLESHIP (FOLLOWING AND LEARNING JESUS) MATT 4:19; 11:29; PHIL 3:17; PHIL 3:8-13. LIVING BY THE SPIRIT. GAL 5:25; LUKE 24:49; ACTS 1:5,8; 1 COR.12: 4-11. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Acts 2:42KJV
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  • PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH 2. NURTURE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FAITH MANIFESTED IN PROMPT AND COMPLETE OBEDIENCE IS THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISE NEEDED TO GROW SPIRITUAL MUSCLES. HEB 11: 1-2. ACCORDING TO COL 1:22-23. YOU WILL BECOME PERFECT IN THE SIGHT OF CHRIST IF: 1. YOU CONTINUE IN THE FAITH 2.YOU ARE GROUNDED IN HIM 3.YOU ARE SETTLED IN HIM 4. YOU ARE NOT MOVED AWAY FROM THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL. FOLLOWING JESUS DAILY IN HIS STEPS KEEPS YOU FIT AND DRIVES YOU AHEAD PURPOSEFULLY TILL YOU BECOME EXACLY LIKE HIM. 1 PET 2:21
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  • PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH 2. NURTURE PRACTICAL FOLLOWING CONDITIONS FOR FOLLOWING JESUS LUKE 9:23, LUKE 14:26-27, 33 DENY SELF TAKE UP YOUR CROSS DAILY FOLLOW HIM CLOSELY. PRACTICAL FOLLOWING IN HIS STEPS (WHAT JESUS DID) JOHN 14:12 IN HIS WORD JOHN 8:31; 15:10 IN THE EXAMPLE OF GODLY MEN (DISCIPLERS) 1COR 11:1, PHIL 3:17 IN THE TEACHINGS OF GODLY MEN ACTS 2:42; 2TIM 3:14 BY THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ROM 8:14; JOHN 16:14.
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  • PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH 2. NURTURE WHAT WILL I LOOK LIKE? LOOKING AT JESUS (HIS LIFE) HIS PURPOSE/PASSION JOHN 4:34, MATT 4:19; LUKE 4:18 HIS COMMITMENT JOHN 9:4 HIS PRAYER LIFE MARK 1:35, LUKE 6:12 HIS SERVICE LUKE 22:24-27 HIS SUFFERINGS 1PET 2:21, HEB 5:8 HIS TEMPTATIONS HEB 4:15 HIS LOVE AND COMPASSION MATT 9:36, LUKE 7:13-14 HIS ATTITUDE PHIL 2:5-8 HUMILITY OBEDIENCE MATERIAL THINGS LUKE 12:15; MATT 8:20. HIS MIND SET HEB 10:5-7; MATT 26:42. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor 3:18 KJV
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  • EVIDENCE OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH 3. FRUIT Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. Matt 12:33 KJV These are not individual fruits but observable innate qualities of one fruit produced through intimate fellowship with the Holy Spirit. These qualities must all be present concurrently for it to be recognizable as a fruit produced by the Spirit. If just one of these qualities is missing, then the fruit is not borne of the Spirit, it must be a different specie of fruit. But the fruit of the Spirit (Perfection) is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law (It is Perfect).
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  • BENEFITS OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH. FRUIT - ULTIMATE EVIDENCE OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY. 3. FRUIT - ULTIMATE EVIDENCE OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY. MATURITY IN CHRIST RESULTS IN THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS: PEACE AND REST IN THE MIDST OF STORMS. JOHN 14:27; MATT 11:28- 29; 2COR 13:11 NLT. SPIRITUAL EQUIPMENT FOR SERVICE AND STABILTY EPH 4:11-14. SHARING IN HIS DIVINE NATURE AND GLORY 2PET 1:3-4 ;ROM 8:17 MATURE HANDLING OF THE WORD OF GOD 2 TM 2:15. GUARANTEE OF FULL INHERITANCE EPH 1:11; 1 PET 3:3-4. POSESSION OF ETERNAL LIFE. REV 2:7; 1 JOHN 5:11 FRUITFULNESS IS THE EVIDENCE OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY. CHRIST CONTROLS AND LIVES HIS RIGHTEOUS, HOLY, PERFECT AND POWERFUL LIFE IN YOU. COL 1:27. JOHN 15:2,5.
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  • ARE YOU GROWING UNTO SPIRITUAL MATURITY ARE YOU GROWING UNTO SPIRITUAL MATURITY?
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  • LET US PRAY LET US PRAY!!! I HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS; NO TURNING BACK, NO TURNING BACK. ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR WILL YOU DECIDE NOW; TO FOLLOW JESUS? WILL YOU DECIDE NOW, TO FOLLOW JESUS? NO TURNING BACK, NO TURNING BACK.