I. Review - Get into God’s Gym and cultivate godliness.
II. God Saves. Vs. 10 A. We labor and struggle through the Christian life… Contend and Labor fervently. 1. The Relationship of Trust and Struggle
2. We struggle because we trust in God as Saviour.
B. The object of our faith - God the Saviour of all Men. 1. God is the Saviour of All Men. The universal aspect to salvation. - We are connected - God loved the world - What if Jesus had never been born? A) Respect for Life B) Medical and charitable care for the sick C) View of Women D) Preservation of the Family E) Science F) Education
2. The Salvation of God is especially for those who believe. God is “Very Much” the Saviour of those who believe. Heb. 7:25 - “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.” John 6:37ff: “All that the father gives me, I will lose nothing, but will raise them up at the last day. All that the father giveth to me shall come to me. No man can come to me unless the father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise him at the last day.” John 6:64 “There are some of you that believe not.” But why didn’t they believe? Verse 65 “That’s why I said to you, that no man CAN come unto me except it were given unto him of my Father.”
II. Or Does Man Save? A. Command and Teach.
B. Exemplify - Life Apply it. Incarnate it. - vs. 12
C. Read, exhort, teach. Vs. 13
D. Don’t neglect the gift in you. Vs. 14
E. Stay on top of these things and throw yourself wholly to them. Vs. 15
F. Focus and Consistency - Vs. 16
III. APPLICATION: It’s hard work growing crops. It’s hard work getting people saved.
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