8 STEPS TO SPIRITUAL

MATURITY
2 Peter 1:5-7
 1. FAITH
(INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION: BORN AGAIN)

BELIEF IN SOMETHING WITHOUT PROOF

OR EVIDENCE
 2.VIRTUE
(INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION: INTEGRITY,
HONESTY, MORALITY)

ONCE A PERSON IS REBORN, THEY WILL SEE

CHANGES OCCUR WITHIN THEIR HEART AND
SOUL.
WHAT’S NEXT?
 3.KNOWLEDGE
(INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION: UNDERSTANDING,
WISDOM)
EPH 2:8  FOR BY GRACE ARE YE
SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND
THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT
IS THE GIFT OF GOD: 

EPH 2:9  NOT OF WORKS, LEST

ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST. 
 2CO 4:3-4
  BUT IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID, IT IS HID
TO THEM THAT ARE LOST: 
IN WHOM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD
HATH BLINDED THE MINDS OF THEM
WHICH BELIEVE NOT, LEST THE LIGHT
OF THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF CHRIST,
WHO IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, SHOULD
SHINE UNTO THEM.
WHY MANY PEOPLE
HATE THE GOSPEL?
BINUBULAG SILA NG MUNDO
THEY WERE UNABLE TO SEE (UNDERSTAND) THE MESSAGE
THAT GOD HAD GIVEN TO THEM.
PAUL SAID THAT ‘THE GOD OF
THIS WORLD’ WAS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
PROBLEM.
 HOWEVER, THEIR
SITUATION IS NOT YET
HOPELESS.
 COL 1:25-27 
WHEREOF I AM MADE A MINISTER,
ACCORDING TO THE DISPENSATION OF
GOD WHICH IS GIVEN TO ME FOR YOU, TO
FULFIL THE WORD OF GOD; 
 COL 1:26 
EVEN THE MYSTERY WHICH HATH BEEN
HID FROM AGES AND FROM GENERATIONS,
BUT NOW IS MADE MANIFEST TO HIS
SAINTS 
 COL 1:27 
TO WHOM GOD WOULD MAKE KNOWN
WHAT IS THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF
THIS MYSTERY AMONG THE GENTILES;
WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF
GLORY
COL 2:2  THAT THEIR HEARTS MIGHT BE
COMFORTED, BEING KNIT TOGETHER IN
LOVE, AND UNTO ALL RICHES OF THE
FULL ASSURANCE OF UNDERSTANDING,
TO THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE
MYSTERY OF GOD, AND OF THE FATHER,
AND OF CHRIST; 
COL 2:3  IN WHOM ARE HID ALL THE
TREASURES OF WISDOM AND
KNOWLEDGE. 
WE ARE:
-CHILDREN OF GOD
-FORGIVEN BY GRACE
-CALLED OUT OF DARKNESS
-APPOINTED AS
AMBASSADORS
-HEIRS TO THE KINGDOM
4.SELF-CONTROL
(INTERNAL TRANSFORMATION: DISCIPLINE,
RESTRAINT , WILL)
 1JN 1:8 
IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NO SIN,
WE DECEIVE OURSELVES, AND THE
TRUTH IS NOT IN US. 
 MORE LIKE HIM

LESS LIKE OURSELVES

 1CO 10:13 
THERE HATH NO TEMPTATION TAKEN YOU
BUT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN: BUT GOD
IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT SUFFER YOU TO
BE TEMPTED ABOVE THAT YE ARE ABLE;
BUT WILL WITH THE TEMPTATION ALSO
MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE, THAT YE MAY BE
ABLE TO BEAR IT. 
THIS ALSO REQUIRES:

-PRAYER
-READING GOD’S WORD
-ATTENDING CHURCH
-SEEKING THE ASSISTANCE
OF A TRUSTED LIKE-MINDED
CHRISTIAN
 GAL 5:16 
THIS I SAY THEN, WALK IN THE SPIRIT,
AND YE SHALL NOT FULFIL THE LUST OF
THE FLESH. 
 LUKE 9:23 
AND HE SAID TO THEM ALL, IF ANY MAN WILL
COME AFTER ME, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF,
AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS DAILY, AND
FOLLOW ME. 
“TRUE SELF-CONTROL IS NOT ABOUT
BRINGING OUR SELVES UNDER OUR
OWN CONTROL, BUT UNDER THE
POWER OF CHRIST”