Stand up For Jesus

• Stand Up for Jesus
• 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
• 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
• Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.14 Let all that you do be done with love.

• Philippians 1:27
• Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that … I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, …
• Philippians 4:1
• Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:15
• Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.
• Jude 3
• Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
• Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.
• 2 Timothy 2:3-4
• You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
• Ephesians 6:10-18
• Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the Wiles of the devil…13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
• Example of Stephen
• Acts 7:54-58 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,56 and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
• What Must We Do that We May Adequately Stand Up?

• Develop Qualified Elders and Preachers
• 1 Timothy 3:1-2 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach …
• Develop Qualified Elders and Preachers
• 2 Timothy 2:2 And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
• Preach the One True Church
• Ephesians 4:4-6 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism;6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
• Preach the One True Church
• John 10:16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
• Consistently Practice Church Discipline
• Matthew 18:15-17
• 1 Corinthians 5
• 2 Thessalonians 3:6-14
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
• Galatians 5:19-21
• Preach the Bible Faithfully
• 1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever.
• Preach the Bible Faithfully
• 2 Timothy 4:1-5 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
• Be Christ Centered
• Philippians 2:9-11
• Colossians 2:6
• Colossians 3:17
• Luke 6:46

• Stand Up for Jesus
• 1 Corinthians 16:13-14