Episode 57: Aim at Righteousness

Make this Lent the most fruitful Lent ever. Join Lisa and Laura as they explore Passionate Discipleship, a nine-week Lenten Bible study series. In these powerful episodes, they'll unpack Paul's wisdom to his closest friend, Timothy, and reflect on how we can apply it to our lives today. As we grow in personal holiness, we will boldly step into our call as true disciples by reaching out to the next generation and passing on all that we’ve learned. In today’s episode, they discuss Lesson 4: Aim at Righteousness and the importance of how we pass on the baton of faith. 

Our faith is the greatest treasure! We don’t want to “wield it like a boulder;” we need to share it in a way that makes it seem appealing. But how? Grab your Bible and tune in because you are about to find out.

Open your Heart to our key Scripture.
2 Timothy 2:11–13: If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.

Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode.
Matthew 18:9: And if your eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fiery hell.
Galatians 5:24: Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
2 Timothy 2:15: Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:16–17: Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will eat its way like gangrene.
James 3:6: And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.
Sirach 27:4–7: When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do people’s faults when they speak. The furnace tests the potter’s vessels; the test of a person is in conversation. The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so speech discloses the bent of a person’s heart. Praise no one before he speaks, for it is then that people are tested.
2 Timothy 2:21: If anyone purifies himself from what is ignoble, then he will be a vessel for noble use, consecrated and useful to the master of the house, ready for any good work. 
Luke 6:45: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
2 Timothy 2:22–25: So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, an apt teacher, forbearing, correcting his opponents with gentleness.

Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.
Take the time this week to think about and listen to the words that come out of your mouth. Identify your biggest pitfall (in silence ask the Holy Spirit to point this out). And then go to prayer and pray for the opposite virtue.

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