Experiencing New Life. Selected Scriptures

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1 Experiencing New Life Selected Scriptures

2 1. Enter into a mentoring relationship with another follower of Jesus 2 Timothy 2: You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2. And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.

3 3. Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4. No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer.

4 5. Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor s crown except by competing according to the rules.

5 2. Understand the meaning of the gospel and the core elements of following Jesus 1 John 2: I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.

6 13. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

7 14. I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

8 2. Understand the meaning of the gospel and the core elements of following Jesus Colossians 2: So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7. rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

9 3. Share Christ from the natural overflow of your life with him John 7: On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.

10 3. Share Christ from the natural overflow of your life with him John 4: Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29. Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? 30. They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

11 3. Share Christ from the natural overflow of your life with him John 4: Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman s testimony, He told me everything I ever did. 40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.

12 41. And because of his words many more became believers. 42. They said to the woman, We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.

13 4. Replace your old value system with the values of Jesus Ephesians 5: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26. to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

14 27. and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

15 4. Replace your old value system with the values of Jesus Matthew 5: You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44. But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

16 God s value system is sacrificial love for the benefit of others, and it most looks like Jesus on the cross. -- Darren Twa, God s Value System; focused on relationship

17 5. Trust Jesus for the assurance of your salvation Philippians 1: I thank my God every time I remember you. 4. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy

18 5. because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, 6. being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

19 5. Trust Jesus for the assurance of your salvation 1 John 5: And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

20 13. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

21 5. Trust Jesus for the assurance of your salvation Hebrews 7:25 Therefore he (Jesus) is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

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