Are You Approved?
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· 13 viewsThose who are approved of God are willing to work; study and be set apart.
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14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Thesis:
Those who are approved of God are willing to work; study and be set apart. Are You Approved?
Introduction:
The Approved are Willing to Study/ Do Their Best
The Approved are Willing to Study/ Do Their Best
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
The sense of the worker here in the Greek is:
The sense of the worker here in the Greek is:
one who works at a specific occupation
specifically for pay
12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. 14 Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. 15 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. 16 Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
1 Tim 4:12-
The Approved are Willing to Study/ Do Their Best
The Approved are Willing to Study/ Do Their Best
The KJV translates “Study”, many other versions translate “Do Your Best” because the sense of the Greek word here is:
is to be eager
to have or show keen interest
intense desire
impatient expectancy
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Tim
10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 pet 1:10-11
The Approved are Willing to Work
The Approved are Willing to Work
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
The sense of the worker here in the Greek is:
one who works at a specific occupation
specifically for pay
12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. 14 Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. 15 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. 16 Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
The Approved are Willing to Rightly Divide
The Approved are Willing to Rightly Divide
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
2 tim 2
The sense of the Greek to rightly handling”, is:
to analyze correctly
to cut straight
1 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 cor 4:1-
Conclusion:
17 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
2 cor
God’s Plan of Salvation
God’s Plan of Salvation
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’ ”
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
