{"id":516,"date":"2011-08-07T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:42","slug":"the-spirit-of-power-of-love-and-a-sound-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Power, of Love, and A Sound Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tim. 2 1:1-12,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 21:17-22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: &#8220;He Hath not Given Us the Spirit of Fear.&#8221; vs. 7<\/strong><br \/>\n1. No Christian need live in a state of fear and anxiety.<br \/>\n2. Paul&#8217;s suffering didn&#8217;t bring fear.<br \/>\n3. Not all suffering is brought about by wrong doing, (Job, Paul, John).<br \/>\n4. Some suffering is a direct result of doing the Will of God.<br \/>\n5. The Christian that is fearful of suffering and anxiety has not caught the true Spirit of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: Paul&#8217;s 3 Reasons for not Being Fearful:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;I know whom I have believed.&#8221;<br \/>\na. 1st hand Religion.<br \/>\nb. A vital active Christian Life.<br \/>\nc. A daily access to the Throne of God.<br \/>\nd. Paul was on speaking terms with God.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;I am Persuaded that He is Able.&#8221;<br \/>\na. His concept of God was big enough.<br \/>\nb. His mind was fixed and at ease about Gods ability.<br \/>\nc. Paul had no if in his concept of Gods ability to keep him till eternity!!<br \/>\nd. Like the Hebrew Children, he was willing to put God to the test.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: The Spirit of Discipline.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. A well arranged mind.<br \/>\n2. Discipline in Christian Service will keep us searching when others quit.<br \/>\n3. Without discipline, we will filter out the 1st sign of commit of opposition.<br \/>\nNapoleon leading his horse back to battle.<br \/>\n4. A disciplined Christian Life is what Paul wanted for Timothy.<\/p>\n<p><strong> These 3 great truths gave Paul the Spirit of Power, of Love, and of a Sound Mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim. 2 1:1-12,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 21:17-22 I: &#8220;He Hath not Given Us the Spirit of Fear.&#8221; vs. 7 1. No Christian need live in a state of fear and anxiety. 2. Paul&#8217;s suffering didn&#8217;t bring fear. 3. Not all suffering is brought about by wrong doing, (Job, Paul, John). 4. Some suffering is a direct result [&hellip;]<\/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-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}