spiritual growth for sermons.

1. SPIRITUL GROWTH: A TIME
TO GROW

2. • This sermon is about growing closer to God.
• It focuses on putting aside and spurning (Tangihan)
• About longing for spiritual growth.

3. Key Ingredients of Spiritual Maturity
Receiving Christ
Colocians 2:5-6
And now, just you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must
continue to follow Him.
Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be build on Him.
Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will
overflow with thankfulness.

4. You cant mature spiritually until you are born spiritually. And the only way you
get born spiritually is by receiving Christ, it means that you adopt the right view of
Jesus.
You don’t have to know all of the details of His birth and ministry and
execution and resurrection life, all you need is to acknowledge who He is. Its more
than just believing intellectually that He is the Christ.
When you receive Christ, His spirit comes to live in your heart to give you the
desire and ability to mature. Have you actually receive Chris? If not, why not do so
today.

5. Learning about Christ
Philippians 3:8
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ.
John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom You have sent.

6. Resisting Spiritual Deception
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Isaiah 8:20
if they don’t speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them.
There are demonic spirits who want to neutralize you so that you will not
influence others toward Jesus. They normally try to neutralize us by deceiving us and
who work through people who are very persuasive (Mapanghikayat)

7. Being with other Christians
Paul is describing the Colossian church as like roman army in
formation (MANIPLE SLIDE), They were relatively protected from
deception because they were nor rabble of isolated (magulong
pulutong ng mga tao) authonomous individuals. Rather, they were
in formation with one another. Their church was an organized
network of caring relationship.

9. Some Habit of Spiritual Growth
1. Reading the Bible daily
2. Praying often
3. Tithing Regularly
4. Worshiping weekly

10. Some Steps to Spiritual Growth
Making Spiritual growth a commitment and priority
Spending time with God
Living in the word
Praying in faith
Having fun with other chirstian
Leading the lost to Christ
Ministering to others.

11. God fixes no limit to the advancement of those who
desire to be filled with the knowledge of His will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding, through growth in
knowledge an understanding, they are to be strengthened
with all might, according to His glorious power. AA 478.3