Tuesday - June 21, 2016

Woodlawn Family Bible Study
TUESDAY

BIBLE READING:  Ezekiel 18:24

MAIN IDEA:   Slow down and think before you slow up in the Christian race

DISCUSSION
Patience is a virtue that slows us down.   Slow down and think before you slow up in the Christian race.  When we patiently wait on the Lord’s coming (Isaiah 40:31), He will give us strength to finish.

Ezekiel 18:24 tells us that good people who stop doing good things and start doing evil things as sinners do will not get credit for their good things but will die to sin unless they change their evil ways. As we go through life, there will come a time when we can’t continue to do as much good as we once did.  In Ecclesiastes 12 the wise man, Solomon, tells us how important it is to serve God while we can, because as we age our abilities diminish. If you don’t use your abilities while you can, you will feel like you have wasted your life when old and you can’t.

Successfully running the race also requires us to continually examine ourselves. We must always make sure we are on the right track and our destiny is heaven. Paul tells this in 2 Corinthians 13:5. Look closely at yourselves. Test yourselves to see if you are living in the faith. Don't you realize that Christ Jesus is in you? Of course if you fail the test, he is not in you.

We must constantly evaluate “Am I pleasing God?” and make changes necessary to keep yourself on the right track. We are all in the same race to get to heaven. The distance and terrain are not equal for all. The reward of heaven is for all who finish.

While waiting on the Lord, one activity we must concern ourselves with is building up our self-control. Self-control can be a very stabilizing facet of one’s outlook on life and handling of problems of life as they occur. We are constantly facing Satan’s darts of temptation.  How we react to these darts depends upon our ability to use self-control and refrain from doing wrong when tempted.

APPLICATION
Discuss as a family what darts is Satan throwing at you. How can you make self-control a better shield in your life?

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