Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 04/02/2017

Ephesians 5:14-6:18 - The Battle: We Don't Fight Alone

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 5:33)

A life battle is to trust God.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 6:18)

Water is a symbol in the Bible of the Word of God.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 6:18)

A challenge given to each of us in the Bible is to 'be fruitful and multiply'.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 6:18)

You are in a battle to believe.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 6:18)

Read the Word.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 6:18)

Take the time to read, Jesus took the time to bleed.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 6:18)

Doubt your doubts, believe your beliefs.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesian 6:18)

Starve your doubts, feed your faith.

Prov 24:16 NKJV

For a righteous man may fall seven times
And rise again,
But the wicked shall fall by calamity.

Matt 18:21-22 NKJV

21 Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" 22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

Luke 17:4 NKJV

And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."

Ruth 1:16-17 NKJV

16 But Ruth said:
"Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God.
17 Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me."

Matt 23:23-24 NKJV

23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.  24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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