Nick Gerringer - Assisting Pastor's teaching references for 05/09/2019

Exodus 23 - Deeper Discipleship

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:2)

Deeper discipleship is to be led by Christ and the culture of life inside the body of believers.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:5)

Deeper discipleship in Christ looks for ways to lift the burden of those that are at odds with us. 

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:7)

Deeper discipleship cannot be bought with money, because it has already been purchased by the blood of Jesus.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:9)

Help draw people into deeper discipleship in the Lord by familiarizing them with scripture, fellowship, and ways they can connect with the Lord.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:12)

Finding what it means to grow deeper in our discipleship comes with knowing when to rest from work.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:13)

Our rest is found in Christ, not from Christ.  Prioritize time with the Lord when you rest from work.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:15)

When we come to fellowship and feast with one another, deeper discipleship shows us that everyone has something to contribute spiritually.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:18)

Discipleship begins when we give ourselves fully to Him, then we are dead to all this world has to offer and to all the expectation we have to offer it.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:19)

In discipleship, It’s important to consider our worship of Christ as a holy matter and to not attribute something that’s not of Him as being His.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:26)

Want to be healthy? God says it, just do it!

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:28)

If God bee for you who can be against you?

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:30)

If we want all that God has for us, we must be willing, through the Spirit, to embrace and embody all of God’s word for our life.

Life Lesson (verse Exodus 23:33)

If we allow close associations apart from Christ to gain ground in our life, we will be ensnared into there influence.

2 Peter 1:4 NKJV

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Exodus

Deut 19:15-19 NKJV

15 "One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. 16 If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 17 then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. 18 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, 19 then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

1 Tim 5:19 NKJV

 Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses.

Prov 18:13 NKJV

He who answers a matter before he hears it,
It is folly and shame to him.

Prov 18:17 NKJV

The first one to plead his cause seems right,
Until his neighbor comes and examines him.

1 Cor 15:33 NKJV

Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits."

Heb 10:23-25 NLT

23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

2 Sam 23:10 NKJV

He arose and attacked the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand stuck to the sword. The Lord brought about a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to plunder.

Heb 12:1-2 NKJV

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Rom 1:11-12 NKJV

11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established —  12 that is, that I may be encouraged together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Gal 6:14 NKJV

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

2 Cor 10:4-6 NKJV

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 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, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

Ps 90:10 NKJV

The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,

Deut 34:7 NKJV

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.

Prov 4:20-22 NLT

20 My child, pay attention to what I say.
Listen carefully to my words.
21 Don't lose sight of them.
Let them penetrate deep into your heart,
22 for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.

Josh 24:12 NKJV

I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow.

Luke 16:10 NLT

"If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones.

Isa 28:10 NLT

He tells us everything over and over— one line at a time, one line at a time, a little here, and a little there!"

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