DTS Book 5 - My Personal Obedience

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MY PERSONAL OBEDIENCE

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DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING Understand your new life Book 1 My new life God has called you to an exciting new life following him. This book will show you what God has already done to ensure that you will keep growing as his precious child. Ten studies that cover the fundamentals of being both a disciple and a disciple-maker.

Deepen your relationship These books will help you to understand and love our magnificent God, and show you how to deepen your relationship with him through prayer around his word.

Book 2 My awesome God

Book 3 My intimate relationship

Nine studies exploring the character of this marvellous God who calls us to relate to him. We investigate the enormity of God as Father, Son and Spirit.

Ten studies designed to ground the growing disciple in the immense blessings of being immersed in a life of soaking in God’s Word, and in prayer.

Live as a faithful disciple Now you are ready to put it all into action in your personal walk with God, and in your active ministry to others.

Book 4 My mission from God These nine studies explore the tasks that God has given us here on planet Earth. We look at being a witness, an ambassador, and a faithful manager of God’s gifts and blessings.

Book 5 My personal obedience These eleven studies focus on areas of personal obedience, and challenge the disciple to ‘put on’ the new life that is theirs in Christ Jesus.

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DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING

Discipleship is not just a series of Bible studies. It is a lifetime of learning how to be totally committed to Jesus in every area of your life.

Discipleship Training isn’t just a matter of ‘going through a course’. Your main training as a disciple will be through the learning relationship that you have with your trainer.

Everything in this course will need to be put into practice in your life.

The aim of this training is to help you grow as a disciple so that you will be better equipped to ‘go and make disciples’.

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contents

BOOK 5 MY PERSONAL OBEDIENCE 1 How to treat Jesus as Lord

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2 How to really trust God

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3 How to live a new life

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4 How to make godly decisions

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5 My speech

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6 My submission (including parents!) 25 7 Study

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8 Alcohol

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9 Being in love

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10 Sex

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11 Instant replay

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My time with God chart Sermon notes

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STUDY

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How to treat Jesus as Lord

Discipleship means growing in your relationship with God, and making changes in your life. Now let’s think about whether Jesus is Lord of every area of our lives.

1 What do these verses teach you about what it means for Jesus to be the ‘Lord’?

a) Colossians 1:15-20 b) Hebrews 1:1-3 c) Philippians 2:6-11 d) Romans 14:7-9 e) Revelation 19:11-16 f) John 13:12-15

2 How does Jesus – the Lord – want me to respond to him – as Lord? a) Luke 6:46-49 b) Romans 6:11-14 c) Colossians 3:23-24 d) Matthew 28:18-20

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Jesus IS Lord, and if you’ve become a Christian you have made a decision to treat him as Lord. You must then allow his lordship to penetrate EVERY area of your life. Consider the following table and add any other areas of your life that are missing.

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JESUS IS LORD

I must submit every area of my life to his lordship My thoughts

My friends

How I spend my free time

My attitude to school or work

The things I own

My education

How I treat my family

My attitude to school or work

My sexuality

My attitude to teachers, bosses

My church involvement

My career

How I spend my money

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3 Think carefully about your life and see how effectively you are

submitting all areas of your life to the control and lordship of Jesus.

a) What are some areas of your life where you have already made a decision to submit to Jesus’ lordship?

b) What areas are there where you are not fully submitting to Jesus’ lordship?

c) What changes can you make so that you submit the WHOLE of your life to Jesus’ lordship?

This is the first half of a great passage that shows how mighty Jesus really is.

Memory Verse The Lordship of Christ Colossians 1:15-17 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together.

The My 3 friends space below is for you to write the names of friends you are praying will come to know Jesus and to continue praying for them.

My 3 friends...

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STUDY

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How to really trust God

Let’s look at the great things that can be accomplished when we trust in God rather in our own abilities.

1 What do these verses teach you about what it means to place your faith in God?

a) Hebrews 11:1 b) Hebrews 11:6 c) Romans 4:20-21 d) Acts 27:25

2 What is the alternative to trusting in God? a) 2 Corinthians 5:7 b) Jeremiah 9:23-24 c) Proverbs 3:5-6

3 Read through Hebrews chapter 11. Note all the things that were accomplished by faith. Which of these strikes you as being particularly significant? Why?

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4 What should encourage you to place all your trust in God? a) 1 Kings 8:56 b) Hebrews 6:12

5 What are some areas of your life where you are tending to ‘walk by sight’ rather than ‘walk by faith’? Where do you tend to trust in your own abilities, rather than in God? When do you find it hard to obey God by believing and acting on his promises?

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6 Think of some of the promises that God has made to you (perhaps

think of some of your memory verses). In the chart below, note down how you can claim these promises by trusting God.

In my life...

Bible verse

What I must do

God’s promise

John 3:16 ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’

Keep believing and placing my trust in God.

God gives me eternal life.

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This week we complete the second half of Colossians 1:15-20.

Memory Verse The Lordship of Christ Colossians 1:15-20 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together.

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

My 3 friends...

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