Standing Depends on Your Watchfulness
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12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Covering our mind and watching for deception will keep us standing.
Covering our mind and watching for deception will keep us standing.
Jesus commands us to be watchful and tells us why.
Jesus commands us to be watchful and tells us why.
41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Jesus tells us in Luke that things are going to get worse, but we will make it if we watch.
Jesus tells us in Luke that things are going to get worse, but we will make it if we watch.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Watchfulness means to be alert and to be alert is “to quickly notice any unusual and potentially dangerous or difficult circumstances.”
Watchfulness means to be alert and to be alert is “to quickly notice any unusual and potentially dangerous or difficult circumstances.”
Paul tells us when we put on all the armor God has given us we still must be watchful.
Paul tells us when we put on all the armor God has given us we still must be watchful.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Christians who are not watchful can be overtaken by the enemy.
Christians who are not watchful can be overtaken by the enemy.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Take heed means to not think more of yourself than you ought to.
Take heed means to not think more of yourself than you ought to.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
We must take heed because anyone can be caught up and fall.
We must take heed because anyone can be caught up and fall.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
To Stand We Must Take Heed and Be Watchful All The Time
To Stand We Must Take Heed and Be Watchful All The Time