“Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind.” Colossians 2:18.

“One of the greatest dangers of Christian people is of drifting along . . . or to put itanother way . . . the danger of spiritual laziness. I suppose this is the commonest of all the dangers confronting us, and it is just when we are in this condition that the devil gets his opportunity with us. So we are exhorted by the Apostle to rouse ourselves up, to take ourselves in hand and give ourselves a shake.”

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Life in Two Kingdoms, 299-300.

“And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” Hebrews 6:11-12.

Redemption(Salvation)

Justification

Birth[Chs. 3-5]

No More Penalty!

Sanctification

Growth[Chs. 6-7]

No More Power!

Glorification

Glory[Ch. 8]

No More Presence

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“You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” ==========

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”

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“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.”

“I am holy ”

1 John 2:16; James 4:4; John 15:18.

“But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.”

1 Thessalonians 5:8.

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.”

Ephesians 6:10-11.

“ . . . for now is your damnation nearer than when you first heard the Gospel and rejected it.”

Charles Spurgeon, Romans 13:11.

שוב‘180°’

“Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,Making the most [redeeming]

of your time, because the days are evil.”Ephesians 5:15-16.

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

2 Corinthians 5:11-12.

“But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge.”

Psalm 73:28.

“Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!”

2 Peter 3:11-12.