“IN GOD’S GYMNASIUM” – SEVEN SPIRITUAL WORKOUTS (Jude 20 to 23)

A) FULFILL your personal RESPONSIBILITIES

Workout 1: Build each other up in your most holy faith
Workout 2: Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit
Workout 3: Await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will bring you Eternal Life
Workout 4: Keep yourself safe in God’s love

B) FAITHFULLY REACH out to others

Workout 5: Show mercy to those whose faith is wavering (DOUBTERS)
Workout 6: Rescue others from the flames of Judgment (DECEIVED)
Workout 7: Show mercy to still others, but do so with great caution, hating the sin that contaminates their lives. (DEFILED)

1) REASONS for defilement (Mark 7:21 to 23)




• Mind gate (“For as one thinks within his heart so is he”, Pro 23:7)

• Eye gate (“No fear of God before their eyes”, Rom 3:18; “With eyes full of adultery”, 2 Pet 2:14)

• Lip gate (“I am a man of unclean lips”, Isaiah 6:5)

• Heart gate (“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure”, Jer 17:9)

• Ear gate
(“He who listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise”, Pro 15:31)

• Feet gate (“Their feet are swift to shed blood and the way of peace they do not know”, Rom 3:15, 17)

• Hand gate (“for your hands are stained with blood”, Isaiah 59:3)

2) REMEDY for defilement

1. A fresh vision of God’s Holiness (Isaiah 6)

2. A Holy Hatred for sin (consequences of my sin is the Cross)

3. Hide God’s Word in my Heart

4. Hold myself accountable

5. Hang out with the godly

6. Habitually starve the sources

7. Help of the Holy Spirit

8. Set yourself High Biblical standards

9. Harbor no ill will toward anyone

10. Remember my High calling (Phil 3:14)