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5 Steps to God being with You 2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
Outline:
- Rejoice
- Strive for Full Restoration
- Encourage One Another – (Console and Comfort one another)
- Be of one mind – (Be agreeable)
- Live in Peace
- And then the God of Love and Peace will be with You
When we rejoice in Christ, strive for maturity, encourage one another, become of one mind and walk in peace, God will manifest himself in our midst.
1. Rejoice
Revelation knowledge is usually followed by rejoicing.
Philippians 4:4
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
Find your joy in Christ. When he’s your life source other deceptive sources of life won’t have any appeal.
Deceptive desires will cause us to not have our Joy in the Lord. We will look for satisfaction in other areas.
Ephesians 4:22
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Knowing what you know in the grand scheme of things brings tremendous joy.
Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22)
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
2. Strive for Full Restoration
Aim for perfection or strive for full restoration. Full restoration is speaking of total practical sanctification. The maturity of the believer causing the Christian to reflect Christ’s glory in this life. The Greek for this verb (restoration) is used elsewhere in the NT for mending nets (MK 1:19) and bringing factions together (1 Co 1:10).
Ephesians 4:13
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Colossians 2:9-10
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
3. Encourage One Another With words
After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. We are instructed in v. 18 to encourage one another with these words. Encourage one another when we come to Church.
Hebrews 10:25
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Being Encouraged Softens our Hearts
Hebrews 3:12-13
12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
Being encouraged by the body of Christ prevents a person from getting hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
4. Be of One Mind
Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:6
6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
When the people were united there was nothing impossible for them. God had to stop them.
Pentecost
Acts 2:1 KJV
1And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. When the believers were all together in one place and with one accord the Holy Spirit came.
The Early Church
Acts 4:32,33
32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all With oneness comes great power and powerful grace working in all!
5. Live in Peace
Peace is the absence of internal strife.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other.
Hebrews 12:14
Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
6. God will be With You
Matthew 1:23
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
- God will be with you to protect you
- God will be with you to give you wisdom
- God will be with you and confirm his word with signs wonders and miracles
Luke 4:28-30
28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
God will give you wisdom
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. God will confirm His word
Mark 16:20
Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
Acts 14:3
So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders.
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