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Pilgrim's Progress, Settler's Regress:

How to Grow Up and Not Lose your Destiny - Notes

 

1.     The Call: Matt 22:14; John 15:16; Romans 1:6; Revelation 17:14

2.     Pilgrimage: Psalm 84: 5-7, 10.

3.     Project Restoring you: Proverbs 25:28; James 5:16; Proverbs 28:13

4.     Born Again, Grow Up Again: 2 Cor 5:17; 1 Peter 2:9; Romans 8:19-21

5.     Brokenness and Healing through Christ: Matt 18:21-35; Psalm 147:13

6.     Destiny and Your Adversary: John 10:10; 1 John 3:8

7.     Nehemiah 3 Counterclockwise Tour: 10 gates embodying 10 milestones in the Pilgrim's Progress to Zion i.e. Christian maturity  

 

 

 

Downwards

Upwards - Psalm 24:3-4

Sheep: Rev 12:11; Heb 4:14; Heb 10:14; John 10:7-10; 2 Cor 5:10; Rev 20:11-12, 15; 1 Cor 3:11-15; Mark 4:3-8

Fish: Mark 1:17

Old: Eph 4:17-23

Valley: Psalm 23; Gen 26:19

Dung: Jer 17:9-10; Isaiah 29:13; Matt 15:16; Psalm 139:23-24; Prov 20:27; 2 Cor 2:14-15; Heb 9:10-12; Ezek 26:36

Fountain: John 7:38; Heb 4:12; Eph 6:17

Water: Eph 5:25; 1 John 2:27; 1 Thess 5:19; Eph 4:29; Jer 2:13

Horse: Rev 19:11; Malachi 4:1-3

East: Zech 14:4; Ezk 44:1-3; Judah (Gen 49:8-10; Judges 1:1-2); Issachar (Gen 49:14-15)

Miphkad (Inspection): Judges 5:18; Matt 25:31-46

 

8.     Pilgrim's Progress or Regress?

§       Childish things: 1 Cor 13:11

§       Fidelity vs Adultery: John 15:18-19; 2 Tim 3:12; 2 Chrn 16:9; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-17; 2 Cor 6:15

9.     Wholeness (holiness): body, soul, spirit: 1 Thess 5:23; Mark 12:30 cf: Captivity

  • Body: Romans 12:1l; 1 Thess 4:3-8; ekporneuo[1]; Eph 4:17-19; Eph :26; Matt 18
  • Soul (intellect, emotions, will): Romans 12: 2; 2 Cor 10:3-6; 2 Thess 2:10; Col 2:8; Prov 12:1; Daniel 2:21; Proverbs 1:21-22,29; Galatians 3:28; Lev 22:8; 1 Cor 6:9; Universal Moral vs Ceremonial Law: Acts 10:9-15; Genesis 3:4-5; Isaiah 5:20; Humanism as spirit of the anti-christ[2]; The Intolerance of Tolerance[3]; Emotions and Will e.g. tongue: Proverbs 18:21; James 3; Isaiah 50:4; Jer 15:19
  • Praise (Psalm 24:1; Gen 49 on Judah); Thanksgiving: Psalm 50:23; Jonah 2, Acts 16; Trusting God: Psalm 27 and Hebrews 11; Washing with the Word: Eph 5:26; Psalm 91; Psalm 73; Armour of God: Ephesians 6
  • spirit: Romans 6:14-19; Hebrews 10:16; Matt 6:24, Luke 6:92; Rev 19:10

 

10.  How not to be disqualified

  • Pleasing God or man? 1 Thess 2:14
  • Noble and Ignoble vessels: 2 Tim 2:20-21
  • Attitude of Champion Athlete/Solider: 2 Tim 2:4
  • Mature and Immature: James 1:4 (perseverance); Heb 5:12 (milk v meat); focused, vigilant and responsible: Phil 3:12-15, Luke 21:19-26; Acts 19:13-16
  • Responsibility and Action: Ezk 22:30; 2 Cor 7:14
  • Destiny of a Nation: Acts 17:26; Matt 25:32; Rev 21:24-27
  • Righteousness and Lawlessness: Ps 89:14; Prov 14:34; Matt 26:40; Romans 1:24-31; 1 John 3:4-5; Ezek 22:29-31; Ezek 20:25; Matt 24:12; Judges 5:8; Acts 17:6 (spirit of effeminacy v bold witness)
  • Lawlessness and God's Judgment: Leviticus 18; 18-25 Jude 1:7; Genesis 15:16; Proverbs 11:21; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 107:33-34; Gen 6:5, 11
  • As you have done to Israel: Obadiah 1:15[4]; Genesis 12:1-3
  • Gideon chooses the 300 hundred: Judges 7.

 

 



[1] See Homosexuality vs God's Holiness: THE ORDINANCE OF THE AMORITES: http://www.defendproclaimthefaith.org/homosexuality_and_god_1.htm (John McTernan, Defend and Proclaim the Faith)

[2] See Derek Prince, 'Humanism: Forerunner for Antichrist' http://www.pastornotes.com/notes/278.pdf

[3] Don Carson, The Intolerance of Tolerance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVJlnvVeSM

[4] John McTernan, As America has done to Israel: http://www.defendproclaimthefaith.org

 

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