12 | Caught and Taught
Titus 3:12-15 | Caught and Taught
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Priestly behavior is caught, taught, and practiced.
James 2:18
But someone may [well] say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works."
Learning to engage in good deeds…
• Prayer is a prerequisite.
Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Learning to engage in good deeds…
• The Holy Spirit is the engine.
Acts 1:8
but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."
Learning to engage in good deeds…
• Regular folks are priests too.
Acts 4:13
Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and [began] to recognize them as having been with Jesus.
Learning to engage in good deeds…
• Take up the shield of faith, arrows are coming.
Ezra 4:4-6
Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building, 5 and hired counselors against them to frustrate their counsel all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. 6 Now in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Learning to engage in good deeds…
• We can’t do it alone.
Acts 2:44-47
And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; 45 and they [began] selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. 46 Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.