Spring Retreat
Evening Chapel
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Day 1 Subject: The Heart Verses: Jeremiah 17:9, Proverbs 23:7 Things inside our Heart: Peacock: Pride-- James 4:6 Goat: Lust--Mark 4:19 Snake: Deceit-guile Pig: Greed-filth, etc Wolf: covetousness--ex. 20:17 Turtle: laziness The Heart of Pak: Read the
entire marvelous story about the The Heart of Pak Story (24 pages) Satan blinds the eye of the mind to sinfulness of these things. It deadens the conscience. The Word of God and the Holy Spirit is not in the heart above. When we receive the Lord Jesus, He gives us a clean heart. When He comes in the bad things leave.
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Day 2 Subject: What Can we Do about our Sinful Heart-- How to Cleanse it? Romans 3:20, John 16:8. The Holy Spirit convicts and shows us how sinful these things in our heart are. We must do one of two things: I. We may say NO, when convicted by the Holy Spirit. If we do, then: A. Satan is enthroned in our life. B. The Word of God is closed to us. C. The Holy Spirit is grieved. D. The eyes blinded so that sin looks alright. E. Conscience no longer works.
II. We may say YES to Christ when convicted by the Holy Spirit, then: A. Christ is enthroned. B. The Holy Spirit is in our heart. C. The Word is in our heart. D. Our eyes are open. E. Our mouth is open to testify. Romans 3:23, I Peter 2:24, John 6:37 "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."
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Day 3 Subject: Assurance John 3:36--The Bible does not say "maybe". John 3:15--Present tense Acts 16:31--We can have eternal life right now when we believe John 1:12--If we believe it,
we should act like it. Salvation is an absolute certainty. John
3:1,2 When we accept Christ, we can KNOW that we are a child of God
because His Word says so, and God cannot lie. Ephesians 6:10-18, John 8:44--Things seem to go wrong after we are saved? Satan does not like it when we accept Christ. He will do everything he can to make us disgrace our Lord. I John 1:8, 2:2--If we sin after we are saved, we are not lost, but are out of fellowship with our Lord until we confess it.
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Day 4 Subject: Sin in a Christian's Life
I John 1:1-8, 2:2--We must learn to compare our sin with God's standard, to see how sinful we are by His standard. We have an advocate in Jesus Christ. Do we have to sin? Must we sin? No, we do not. There is not temptation we cannot overcome through God if we really WANT to. However, we cannot hang onto sin with one hand and get the victory with the other. We must forsake the sin. I Corinthians 10:13 Do we want our hearts kept clean? not just so we will stay saved but to: 1. Glorify God 2. Be a better Christian 3. Be able to face Christ unashamed when He comes John 14:1-3, Matthew 24:36, Acts 1:11, Matthew 24:30,31 Jesus is coming back for all Christians. He will know us for we are sealed by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 1:13
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Day 5 Question: Is there any other way to testify for Jesus, if you have been saved, than by standing up as you have been doing? By our actions Be our sharing By our testimony Do we belong to ourselves? No! I Corinthians 6:20, 7:23 Have we any right to do the things that we want to do? Being a Christian is not being religious. It is living the life of the Lord Jesus. Letting Him live His life in you. Romans 12:1, 2
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