Performance enhancing substance 1 Peter 2:1-10. Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching,

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Performance enhancing substance 1 Peter 2:1-10

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” - 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) A.Hunger is instinctive “I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for Your commandments.”- Psalm 119:131

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) A.Hunger is instinctive “My soul is crushed with longing after your ordinances at all times.”- Psalm 119:20

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) B.Hunger is isolated “Man does not live on bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.” - Deuteronomy 8:3

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) B.Hunger is isolated “How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth.”- Psalm 119:20

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) C.Hunger is intimate “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God.”- Psalm 42:1

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) C.Hunger is intimate “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.”- John 5:39-40

Spiritual growth I.Consumption (2:1-3) C.Hunger is intimate “My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”- Jeremiah 2:13

Spiritual growth II.Production - sacrifice “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building … is growing into a holy temple in the Lord.”- Ephesians 2:19-20

Spiritual growth II.Production - sacrifice “Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, … your spiritual service of worship.” - Romans 12:1

Spiritual growth II.Production - sacrifice “Let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God … and do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” - Hebrews 13:15-16

Spiritual growth III.Production - PRAISE “So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, ‘Come, see a man who told me all the things I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?’” - John 4:28-29