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2 Corinthians 10:14-18 Finishing Well, Heaven in Mind, Heaven in Sight - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: September 15, 2013

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:16)

We are to submit our minds to the Word of God not submit the Word of God to our minds.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:16)

Sometimes thoughts and feelings are great and good and holy; sometimes they are dark and brooding and torturous.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:17)

We need to tear down the walls of stronghold in our lives.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:17)

Sometimes we feel trapped in life because God is getting ready to show us something big.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:18)

Fight for the well done and finish well.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

2 Cor 10:15 NLT

Nor do we boast and claim credit for the work someone else has done. Instead, we hope that your faith will grow so that the boundaries of our work among you will be extended.

2 Cor 10:16 NLT

Then we will be able to go and preach the Good News in other places far beyond you, where no one else is working. Then there will be no question of our boasting about work done in someone else's territory.

2 Cor 10:5 NKJV

casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

1 Cor 2:15-16 NKJV

15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For "who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Prov 9:8 NLT

So don't bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you. But correct the wise, and they will love you.

Gal 4:16 NLT

Have I now become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?

Rom 8:6 NLT

So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.

2 Cor 10:3 NLT

We are human, but we don't wage war as humans do.

2 Cor 10:4 NLT

We use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

Heb 4:12 AMP

For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.

2 Cor 10:17 NLT

As the Scriptures say, "If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord."

2 Cor 10:13 NLT

We will not boast about things done outside our area of authority. We will boast only about what has happened within the boundaries of the work God has given us, which includes our working with you.

Luke 10:19-20 NKJV

19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

Mark 9:23-24 NLT

23 "What do you mean, 'If I can'?" Jesus asked. "Anything is possible if a person believes."
24 The father instantly cried out, "I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!"

2 Tim 1:7 NKJV

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Josh 5:13-15 NKJV

13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, "Are You for us or for our adversaries?" 14 So He said, "No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come."And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, "What does my Lord say to His servant?" 15 Then the Commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, "Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.

Josh 6:15-16 NKJV

15 But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. 16 And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: "Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!

Josh 6:20 NKJV

So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Ex 13:18 NKJV

So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.

Ex 14:2 NKJV

"Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea.

Ex 14:13-15 NKJV

13 And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace."
15 And the Lord said to Moses, "Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.

2 Tim 4:7 NKJV

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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