Heb 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
Heb 10:25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. —.Called to Be Holy
1Pe 1:13 So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
1Pe 1:14 So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.
1Pe 1:15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.
1Pe 1:16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
1Pe 1:17 And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time here as “temporary residents.” —NLT
Prepare your
HOLY HABITS FOR YOUR
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KJV: To gird up the loins of your mind.
Be sober-minded.
- To tell someone to “gird up your loins” was to tell them to prepare for hard work or prepare for battle.
- It was the ancient way of saying “man up!”
- We are being called to get rid of loose and sloppy thinking;
- We are being called to control what we think about, to decide those things we choose to set our mind on.
- Being sober-minded means WE CHOOSE WHAT WE MEDITATE ON!
Exercise Self-Control.
HOLY HABITS FOR YOUR
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“Our Habits become the doorway to the things that control us. Holiness is not so much something we possess as it is something that possesses us. So we have to be very careful of the habits we embrace because a habit is an invitation”.
1Pe 1:14 Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. MSG —MSG
A Life Pleasing to God
1Th 4:1 Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more.
1Th 4:2 For you remember what we taught you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
1Th 4:3 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.
1Th 4:4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor—
1Th 4:5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
1Th 4:6 Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before.
1Th 4:7 God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.
1Th 4:8 Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. —NLT
Put your HOPE in Salvation.
HOLY HABITS FOR YOUR
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