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2 Corinthians 10:8-10 Love is the Battlefield - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: July 14, 2013

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:8)

Your salvation is personal. Your relationship with God is personal. Let the Word of God be personal and let it speak to you.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:9)

We can spend our time talking about what is wrong with people or about what is right with them. We should talk about what is good about God and His people.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:9)

See someone else's weakness or problem as something you can fill in the gap for, pray about and help them with.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:10)

It should be a constant goal for us each to love each other more.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 10:10)

Sow good things into the lives of others. Love others. Encourage others. Forgive and give grace to others. Then you will receive more love, more grace, and more encouragement from others.

Selected Notes/Illustrations

Battle strategies:

Don't give up. Don't you ever, ever give up!
Make the Word of God personal.
There is nothing that I cannot do.
Being content or happy is something I can learn to be, and I can be content.
God will take care of me.
God will not give up on me so I should not give up on God.
God has given me power, love and clear thinking. Fear can rob me or blind me of those things.
I will be victorious because of God.
I can live without worry.
As long as I follow Jesus, I will win.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

2 Cor 4:1 NLT

Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.

2 Cor 4:1 (personal) NLT

Therefore, since God in his mercy has given me this new way, I will never give up.

2 Cor 4:8-9 NLT

8 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. 9 We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed

2 Cor 4:8-9 (personal) NLT

8 I am pressed on every side by troubles, but I am not crushed. I am perplexed, but I am not driven to despair. 9 I am hunted down, but I am never abandoned by God. I get knocked down, but I am not destroyed.

2 Cor 4:16-17 NLT

16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

2 Cor 4:16-17 (personal) NLT

16 That is why I never give up. Though my body is dying, my spirit is being renewed every day. 17 For my present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for me a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

Rom 10:9-10 NKJV

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Phil 4:13 NKJV

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Phil 4:11 NKJV

Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:

Phil 4:19 NKJV

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Phil 1:6 NLT

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

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.

1 John 4:4 NKJV

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 Peter 5:7 NLT

Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.

2 Cor 2:14 NKJV

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

Matt 18:19-20 NKJV

19 "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."

Lev 26:7-8 NKJV

7 You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; Your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

Ex 17:8-13 NKJV

8 Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand." 10 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Matt 7:2 NLT

For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.

Luke 6:38 NLT

Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back."

Eccl 11:4 NKJV

He who observes the wind will not sow, And he who regards the clouds will not reap.

Eccl 11:4 NLT

Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

Hos 8:7 (Partial) NKJV

"They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind.

Phil 2:14-15 NLT

14 Do everything without complaining and arguing, 15 so that no one can critize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shinging like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.

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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