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1 Timothy 3: ¹⁴.... I am writing these instructions, ¹⁵so that if I am delayed, you will know how everyone who belongs to God's family ought to behave. (CEV)
1. Why do we have know what God thinks in order to behave properly in His family?

Luke 12: ³²My little group of disciples, don't be afraid! Your Father wants to give you the kingdom. ³³Sell what you have and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves moneybags that never wear out. Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot destroy it. ³⁴Your heart will always be where your treasure is. (CEV)
2. What does our hearts have to do with having our real treasures in Heaven on not on earth?

Romans 12: ⁹Be sincere in your love for others. Hate everything that is evil and hold tight to everything that is good. ¹⁰Love each other as brothers and sisters and honor others more than you do yourself. ¹¹Never give up. Eagerly follow the Holy Spirit and serve the Lord. ¹²Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble and never stop praying. ¹³Take care of God's needy people and welcome strangers into your home.
¹⁴Ask God to bless everyone who mistreats you. Ask him to bless them and not to curse them. ¹⁵When others are happy, be happy with them, and when they are sad, be sad. ¹⁶Be friendly with everyone. Don't be proud and feel that you are smarter than others. Make friends with ordinary people. (CEV)
3. Tell us about an experience where you saw believers loving others who mistreated them.

Mark 10: ²⁹Jesus told him: "You can be sure that anyone who gives up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news ³⁰will be rewarded. In this world they will be given a hundred times as many homes and brothers and sister and mothers and children.... in the world to come, they will have eternal life." (CEV)
4. How do trouble and adversity make us aware that God supplies many people to help us?

Acts 2: ⁴⁴And all the believers met together constantly and shared everything with each other, ⁴⁵selling their possessions and dividing with those in need. ⁴⁶They.... met in small groups in homes for Communion, and shared their meals with great joy and thankfulness... (TLB)
5. When you read about the early believers, how does that help you appreciate a small group?

Colossians 3: ¹²God loves you and has chosen you as his own special people. So be gentle, kind, humble, meek, and patient. ¹³Put up with each other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you. ¹⁴Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together. ¹⁵Each one of you is part of the body of Christ, and you were chosen to live together in peace. So let the peace that comes from Christ control your thoughts. And be grateful. ¹⁶Let the message about Christ completely fill your lives... (CEV)
6. Who do you know that is gentle, kind, humble, meek, and patient - controlled by Christ?

Please study above references and questions and then add your observations and applications:
Observations                                                                 Applications

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