2. Attaining Your Potential
Tearing Down to Build
Attaining Your Potential

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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."

7. Tearing Down Methods
Pruning
Chaff
Refining
Circumcised

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Refining

12. 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. 

13. 1 Corinthians 3:12-15
Building on the foundation of Jesus
Tested by fire – to prove the work
Saved but great loss

14. Circumcised

15. 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

16. 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

17. Psalm 51

18. 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

19. I will be whiter than snow

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