BUILDING BLOCKS OF DISCIPLESHIP- PART 24

                             5/16/04

 

Intro: We are examining Motivational Virtues as part of

Development of Virtue.

 

Motivational virtue= principle of _______ perspective

that ________ the believer in Christ to obedience.

 

I. MOTIVATION OF THANKSGIVING OR

APPRECIATION. Psa. 100:4, I Thess.5:18

 

1) Thanksgiving =early and positive motive

2) Develops into a greater __________________

  of God’s abundant goodness- Ps. 31:19

3) Thanksgiving emerges as we view our small ______

   in contrast with His abundant goodness.

4) Thanksgiving develops an attitude of ___________

   toward God.  Ps. 116:12, 17,18

5) Such a thankful __________ produces a sustained

     _____________ to serve the Lord.- Eph.5:20

 

II.MOTIVATION FROM THE SENSE OF DUTY.

John 9:4- a deeply felt moral obligation that moves

one to a determined action often at great cost.

 

1)  Duty flows from moral ________________.

Rom.1:14

  Duty does not create indebtedness, it only recognizes

indebtedness.

  The weak owe no duty to the strong; but the strong

realize their duty to the weak.  Rom. 15:1-3

 

2) Duty flow from a __________   ___________.

Acts 20:35

 

3) In the motivation from a sense of duty, there will

be __________________.  II Tim.2:20-21