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Unseen Training
Last week, toward the last half of the lesson, we looked at Exodus 20.
Who remembers what was the theme of Exodus 20?
This week we are going to begin by look at a different chapter and book of the Bible.
So, what do we notice?
Repetition.
Now, are we going to teach the same lesson as last week?
No, but we are going to transition from it.
While all of these commandments are matters of the heart, the last one emphasizes that importance of a heart that is right with God.
Not only are we to abstain from the various things warned about in the commandments (idolatry, murder, stealing, etc)...
The last commandment tells us that we are not even to desire things in our heart that we should not have.
This is clearly an issue of the heart.
So again, what is our lesson title?
Unseen Training
What are some of the practices in the Christian life that are public and visible?
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As we live the Christian life, are we going to live in a way that pleases God if we only do the public, visible things?
No, because it would be possible to attend youth group on Wed and do things other times that displease our Savior.
Would it be possible to come to church every Sunday but be involved with things at school 5 days a week that are not holy?
One way that we can be energized to do the public matters with the right heart, is to make sure we are doing the private matters with the right heart.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PRIVATE DISCIPLINES IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE?
There should be a theme in everything that was said and it is this: the Christian life should be a consistent life; both in public and in private.
What would it look like to follow this verse?
This is called a phylactery: a small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer as a reminder to keep the law.
The other is called a mezuzah: a parchment inscribed with religious texts and attached in a case to the doorpost of a Jewish house as a sign of faith.
This is how some of the Jews interpreted these verses.
They beleived they werre actual objects to remind them of their obligations toward God.
But for us, we will focus on verse 7.
In that verse, we see that there is
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Teaching
2. Listening
3. Family faith
4. Talking about these things.
5. Sitting at home.
Informal and in private.
6. Walking by the way.
Informal and in public.
7. Going to bed and getting up.
Basically, at all times and in all places.
The apostle Paul gives a similar instruction.
When Paul was about to die, he told Timothy that he was to pass along what he had seen consistently demonstrated in Paul’s life.
He then gives him 3 examples.
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When does a soldier in battle stop being a soldier?
What does an athlete stop being an athlete?
When does a farmer get a break from their farm?
When does a Christian take a break from being a Christian?
The graves at First Creek on Abbeville Highway.
So Gethsemane Teenager, I am not asking what your public Christian life looks like.
What does your private life look like?
And if you are a Christian, you never stop being a Christian, so you don’t have a private Christian life and a private life that is separate from your Christianity.
There are a lot of areas we could take this, but I want to leave you with two.
The Word and Prayer.
The word is how God talks to us.
Prayer is who we talk to him.
What do those two things look like in your life?
Word: Read small portions on a consistent basis.
This is better than large chunks at random times.
Prayer: God has given us a model to follow in the Lord’s prayer.
Who is 2 Timothy to?
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