| STUDY OUTLINE: 1. THE DIRECTION: "STABLISH" (4741 STRONGS, SEE GLOSSARY) "TO TURN RESOLUTELY," AS PAUL DID TOWARD PERFECTION. 2. THE MYSTERY: IN THE "REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY." 3. THE TIME: THE TIME IS "NOW." 4. THE MANIFESTATION: MANIFESTED (SHOWN) "BY THE SCRIPTURES OF THE PROPHETS." A. THE ORDER B. THE INTERPRETATION 5. THE COMMANDMENT: "ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT," AS HAVING OUR LOVE MADE PERFECT. 6. THE VOICE: "MADE KNOWN TO ALL NATIONS" (PEOPLES). 7. THE REASON: BECAUSE OF YOUR "OBEDIENCE OF FAITH." |
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| THE FIRST INSTRUCTIONS TO THE FIRST CHURCH ARE: "REMEMBER THEREFORE FROM WHENCE THOU ART FALLEN, AND REPENT" (3340 STRONGS, SEE GLOSSARY) "TO THINK DIFFERENTLY, RECONSIDER, AND EXERCISE THE MIND." THE WORD IMPELS, URGES TO ACTION AND DRIVES US FORWARD TO LEAVE THE CONFORMITY OF THIS WORLD. THEREFORE, "BE YE TRANSFORMED (3339 STRONGS, SEE GLOSSARY, AMID - FORMED OR IN - FORMED), BY THE RENEWING (TO RESTORE TO AN EARLIER CONDITION, TO IMPART NEW VIGOR, TO CAUSE THE REVIVAL) OF YOUR MIND, THAT YE MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD, AND ACCEPTABLE, AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD" (ROM. 2:12). YOU MUST GROW, TO KNOW GOD'S WILL, YOU MUST FEED THE SIRITUAL MEAT OF THE WORD TO THE INNER MAN. HIS SIRITUAL GROWTH IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO AN INCREASE IN THE SPIRITUAL FOOD HE RECEIVES. "AND THE LORD MAKE YOU TO INCREASE AND ABOUND IN LOVE ONE TOWARD ANOTHER, AND TOWARD ALL MEN, EVEN AS WE DO TOWARD YOU. TO THE END HE MAY STABLISH YOUR HEARTS UNBLAMEABLE IN HOLINESS BEFORE GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER, AT THE COMING (REVELATION) OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH (IN) ALL HIS SAINTS" (I THES. 3:12 & 13). AS THE SPIRIT GIVES US BETTER UNDERSTANDING, LET US EXAMINE "THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS" (PHIL. 3:14), AND THEN TURN RESOLUTELY TOWARD PERFECTION. (2) |
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