Pastor David's teaching references for 10/12/2006

1 Samuel 3

Life Lesson (verse 1 Samuel 3:1)

Churches should be teaching the Word.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Samuel 3:10)

God is calling you, are you listening?

Life Lesson (verse 1 Samuel 3:19)

We should serve the Lord and not use the sins of others to excuse ourselves from serving the Lord.

Amos 8:11 NKJV

"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.

1 Peter 2:2 NKJV

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

1 Peter 1:23 NKJV

having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

Heb 5:13 NKJV

For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

Heb 4:12 NKJV

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

2 Tim 4:1-3 NKJV

1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

1 Thess 2:13 NKJV

For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

Col 3:16 NKJV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Eph 6:17 NKJV

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Hab 2:2 NKJV

Then the LORD answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.

Phil 3:13-14 NKJV

13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Rom 11:29 NKJV

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Rom 11:29 KJV

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Rom 11:29 NLT

For God's gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.

Matt 20:16 NKJV

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen."

Rev 3:20 NKJV

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

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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