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Igniting Spiritual Fire: Embracing Christian Zeal for a Passionate Life

This guide explores the essence of Christian zeal as defined in Titus 2:11-14, highlighting five essential qualities: courage, knowledge, energy, diligence, and loving service. It emphasizes building a spiritual fire through the right sources of heat (God), fuel (character of Christ), and environment (purity). By understanding and imitating the zeal of Christ, believers are called to fulfill Jesus’ mission and commandment with passionate devotion. This resource serves as a practical tool to enhance spiritual zeal and live a life characterized by intense heat in service to God.

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Igniting Spiritual Fire: Embracing Christian Zeal for a Passionate Life

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  1. Review • Text: Titus 2:11-14 • Goals: • Building a spiritual fire • Scriptural ways to enhance zeal • Mature understanding of zeal • Satisfaction of imitating the zeal of Christ

  2. Review • Zeal Defined: • 5 Qualities: • Courage • Knowledge/Wisdom • Energy • Diligence • Loving Service Christian zeal is the courage to exercise great wisdom, great energy, and great diligence in loving service to God.

  3. Review • Why be zealous? • Jesus’ Mission (Tit. 2:14) • Jesus’ Commandment (Rev. 3:14-19) • We are to imitate Christ (1 Jn. 2:6) • God demands a zealous people! • God has equipped us to be what He demands!

  4. Christian Zeal = Intense Heat • Zeal • Greek zelos • Strong’s: properly, heat • From primary verb zeo: to be hot (boil, of liquids; or glow, of solids) • Fire/Heat a prominent figure in Scripture

  5. Elements – Fire Triangle • Three elements for a proper fire: • Heat • Fuel • Air • Three elements for a proper spiritual fire: • Proper source of HEAT • Proper source of FUEL • Proper ENVIRONMENT

  6. Elements – Fire Triangle • Our Heat Source: GOD • How deeply does God care for mankind? • Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:20 • Rom. 5:6-11 • How deeply is God concerned with justice? • Heb. 12:28-29 • 1 Thess. 2:8 • Rom. 1:16-18 • How can we draw closer to God to provide heat for our spiritual fire?

  7. Elements – Fire Triangle • Our Fuel Source: Character of CHRIST • We are to walk as Christ walked (1 Jn. 2:6) • Where to start? • Courage • Energy • Diligence • Wisdom/Knowledge • Loving Service • What if one or more of these is missing?

  8. Elements – Fire Triangle • Our Optimum Environment: Purity • We cannot build the proper fire when influenced by sin and the world. • Be prepared to face an impure world (Mt. 10:16; Eph. 6:11ff) • Attune our minds to purity (Phil. 4:8) • Replace the “old spirits” with good things (Mt. 12:43-45) • Seek purity where we have influence, esp. in our hearts (Mal. 3:3; 1 Jn. 2:15)

  9. God Character of Christ Purity

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