{"id":1092,"date":"2011-12-03T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:09","slug":"stir-up-the-gift-that-is-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Stir up the Gift that is Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Timothy 1 4:1-16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Need for Sound Leadership:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Some will depart from the Faith.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Giving heed to spirits that lead one into error.&#8221; &#8220;Teachings of demons.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Branded in their own conscience.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Forbidding to marry, abstainence from foods.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Some Things to Do:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Old wives fictions, (refuse, reject, shun, &amp; avoid).&#8221;<br \/>\n2. Exercise the Mind, Will, and Emotions!<br \/>\na. Toward reverence, respect, and pity toward God. <strong>Peter 1 3:10.<\/strong><br \/>\nb. This gives promise for this life and for the next!<br \/>\n3. Labor to the point of exhaustion and struggle for the cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Some Things to Be:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Assert the dignity of your office.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. Give no one ground for fault-finding in your character.<br \/>\na. In word and conversation, (Way of life).<br \/>\nb. In love and spirit.<br \/>\nc. In faith and purity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: The Thing not to Continue Doing:<\/strong><br \/>\nNeglecting the gift.<br \/>\na. By neglect it becomes useless.<br \/>\nb. Soon you will lose the gift.<br \/>\nc. God will ask for an account.<br \/>\nd. Souls will be lost to strange doctrines while your gift dies.<br \/>\ne. Lives will be lost to the cause of Christ while you burn your conscience and neglect your gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy 1 4:1-16 I: The Need for Sound Leadership: 1. &#8220;Some will depart from the Faith.&#8221; 2. &#8220;Giving heed to spirits that lead one into error.&#8221; &#8220;Teachings of demons.&#8221; 3. &#8220;Branded in their own conscience.&#8221; 4. &#8220;Forbidding to marry, abstainence from foods.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}