Attaining Your Potential Tearing Down to Build Attaining Your Potential

I. Potential Short List Not just redeemed unto salvation Redeemed unto your purpose Known before formed Set apart before born Every day of your life recorded in God’s book before a single day passed

II. Tear Down Strongholds 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 – intellectual strongholds Use God’s mighty weapons Knock down strongholds of human reasoning Destroy false arguments Capture rebellious thoughts

Romans 6:12-13 – flesh strongholds Do not let sin control the way you live No part of your body an instrument for evil V.11 – dead to the power of sin V.16 – slaves of whatever you choose to obey

III. Tearing Down to Build Up Jeremiah 1:10 – "See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To pluck up and to break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant."

Tearing Down Methods Pruning Chaff Refining Circumcised

Pruning John 15:1-3 Father cuts off branches that don’t produce fruit He prunes branches that do bear fruit so they produce more Pruned by the message I have given you

Luke 13:6-9 Patience of owner and gardener Give the barren tree one more chance Special attention and plenty of fertilizer If no fruit – cut it down

Chaff Luke 3:15-17 Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire Separate the chaff from the wheat Burn up the chaff

Refining

Malachi 3:3 He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the LORD. 

1 Corinthians 3:12-15 Building on the foundation of Jesus Tested by fire – to prove the work Saved but great loss

Circumcised

Circumcised Colossians 2:11-13 Cutting away of the sinful nature Dead because of sins and sinful nature not yet cut away Buried with Christ and raised to new life Romans 2:28-29 True circumcision is a change of heart produced by God’s Spirit Seeks praise from God, not man

IV. Repentance Ephesus – Revelation 2:2-7 You don’t love me or each other as you did at first Turn back (repent) and do the works you did at first Before a building up there needs to be a tearing down Before a revival there needs to be a repentance

Psalm 51

According to your unfailing love According to your great compassion Have mercy on me, O God According to your unfailing love According to your great compassion Blot out my transgression Wash away my iniquity Cleanse me from my sin

I will be whiter than snow

By the blood I am whiter than snow, I am made whiter than snow;