Guides For Maturity

2 Timothy 3:12-15

3 Guides that will lead us along the path of maturity

1. Live Godly (vs. 12)

John 15:18-21

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the

world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 15:18-21

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also

persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not

him that sent me.

Matthew 5:10-12

10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the

kingdom of heaven.11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my

sake.

12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Matthew 5:10-12

12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

3 Guides that will lead us along the path of maturity

1. Live Godly (vs. 12)

2. Watch For Fakes (vs. 13)

Romans 16:17-18

17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and

avoid them.18 For they that are such serve not our Lord

Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the

hearts of the simple.

Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently

set forth, crucified among you?

Colossians 2:8

8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the

tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

3 Guides that will lead us along the path of maturity

1. Live Godly (vs. 12)

2. Watch For Fakes (vs. 13)

3. Continue In The Word (vs. 14-15)

Hebrews 4:12

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged

sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and

marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

3 Guides that will lead us along the path of maturity

1. Live Godly (vs. 12)

2. Watch For Fakes (vs. 13)

3. Continue In The Word (vs. 14-15)