Compensation for Following! Lesson 5. Getting started… What activities have you found helpful to maintain a “living sacrifice” attitude and to walk in.

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Compensation for Following! Lesson 5

Getting started… What activities have you found helpful to maintain a “living sacrifice” attitude and to walk in step with the Spirit?

Getting started… What do you think is the appropriate compensation for following someone?

Compensation… in this Life Luke 18: Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!" 29 "I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."

What do you think Jesus meant by his response to Peter? Compensation for Following…in this Life

What compensation have you already received? Compensation for Following…in this Life

A/D I can expect specific material blessings the more I walk in step with the Lord Jesus. Compensation for Following…in this Life

Compensation… in the life to come Revelation 2: I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.

What makes receiving “negative” compensat ion difficult to do? Compensation… in the life to come

What does it mean to be “faithful”? Compensation… in the life to come

A/D Dying as a martyr for the Christian faith assures me of eternal life. Compensation… in the life to come

What makes the “crown of life” such marvelous compensation for following? Compensation… in the life to come

DISCUSSION: Levels of heaven Compensation… in the life to come

Compensation for Following! Lesson 5