Blueprint for Life
(Discipleship)
Lesson 13
Staying on the Alert
Staying on the Alert
Memory Scripture – Mark 13:33
Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know
when that time will come.
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Memory Scripture – 1 Peter 1:14-15
As obedient children, do not conform to
the evil desires you had when you lived in
ignorance. But just as he who called you
is holy, so be holy in all you do;
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Memory Scripture – 1 Peter 1:16
For it is written: “Be holy, because I am
holy.”
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Questions from
the Lesson
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Questions from Lesson
1.What does it mean for you to be “on guard” or “on the alert?”
Mark 13:33-37
2.What is Peter asking you to do? 1 Peter 1:13-16
3.Read 1 Thessalonians 5 and then describe in your own
words what the Father, through Paul, is telling you/warning
you/asking you to do as you walk in this world, waiting for His
return.
4.List what you need to do personally to live a holy life in an
unholy world?
5.How do you overcome in this world? Revelation 12:11,
Proverbs 12:6, 1 John 4:4
6.What is your reward for overcoming? Revelation 3:11-12
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Define Alert and Guard
ALERT
Noun
 An attitude of vigilance, readiness.
Adjective
 Fully aware and attentive, wide awake, alert mind. Train
crossing sign
Antonyms
 Asleep, drowsy, lethargic, unobservant
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Define Alert and Guard
Guard
Verb
 To keep safe from harms way. To keep under control or
restraint as a manner of caution. To guard one’s temper.
Noun
 A body of people, especially soldiers charged with guarding
a place from disturbance, theft, fire, etc.
Synonyms
 Shield, shelter, safe guard, persevere to save.
Antonyms
 Attack
Question 1
What does it mean for you to
be “on guard” or “on the
alert?” Mark 13:33-37
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Question 1
Mark 13:23
So be on guard. I have told you
everything ahead of time.
Question 2
What is Peter asking you to
do? 1 Peter 1:13-16
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Question 2
1 Peter 1:13
[Be Holy] Therefore with minds that are alert
and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to
be brought to you when Jesus Christ is
revealed at His coming. As obedient children,
do not conform to the evil desires you had
when you lived in ignorance.
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Question 2
Jesus tells us in John 10:10 that the
enemy has come to steal, kill, destroy, but
He Himself came to bring life and life
abundantly.
Question 3
Read 1 Thessalonians 5 and then
describe in your own words what the
Father, through Paul, is telling
you/warning you/asking you to do as
you walk in this world, waiting for His
return.
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Question 3
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1 Thessalonians 5: For you are all sons
of light and sons of day: We do not
belong either to the night or to darkness.
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An unholy spirit can never make us holy
in all our conduct and manners of living.
Question 4
List what you need to do personally to
live a holy life in an unholy world?
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Question 4
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Thank the Lord for His love, peace, and His
presence in your life to correct you if needed.
Make a confession and repentance of your
sins and forgive others.
Make yourselves available to God for ministry
opportunities as He would lead you.
Pray daily without hesitation when someone
pops in your head from past/present. They
may need prayer now.
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Question 4
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You and I live by breathing. Our physical lives
require that we inhale and exhale. The air we
breathe sustains our bodies. In the same way,
our spiritual lives are designed by our Father
to be nurtured and sustained by prayer.
Stay away from worldly sin/actions/thoughts.
1 Thess 5:18-22, 1 Cor 9:27
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Question 4
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Last but not least, bind those harassing spirits!
Jezebel Spirit: 4 Steps
1. Pride
2. Rebellion
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Bitterness
Depression
Fear
Jealousy
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3. Deception
4. Perversion
Rebellion
Control
Addictions
Infirmities
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Transferred
Spirits
Question 5
How do you overcome in this world?
Revelation 12:11, Proverbs 12:6,
1 John 4:4
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Question 5
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Know your tool box! The label is “Scriptures
to battle the enemy”
Romans 12:21
1 John 5:4
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To overcome the world, you need to know Jesus,
who He is and what He wants to do for you in this
world.
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Question 5
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The enemy will use gossip to destroy family values,
friendships. Those words you speak can be death
or life.
Proverbs 18:21 – Death and Life are in the power of
the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 16:12 – It is an abomination (to God) and
man for kings to commit wickedness, for a throng is
established and made secure by righteousness.
Moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and
relation.
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Question 5
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Luke 11:24-26 – 24 “When an unclean spirit
goes out of a man, he goes through dry
places, seeking rest; and finding none, he
says, ‘I will return to my house from which I
came.’ 25 And when he comes, he
finds it swept and put in order. 26 Then he
goes and takes with him seven other spirits
more wicked than himself, and they enter and
dwell there; and the last state of that man is
worse than the first.”
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Question 5
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Matthew 7:5 - Hypocrite! First remove the
plank from your own eye, and then you will
see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother’s eye.
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Before you can help anyone, you must
address your own problems.
How? Through His Word
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Question 5
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In Jesus, each one of us is unique, not in a
worldly way. In His unique spiritual way, that
only God’s children can know through His
word only. As His Holy Spirit works through
us.
Do not be doers of the world, but overcomers
of the world by doing the word. (James 1:22,
1 John 5:4)
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Question 5
Ephesians 6:12 - For we do not wrestle against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against
spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
We can never win our battle, if we fight against the wrong
source in a wrong way. We tend to think that people or
circumstances are our problem, but the source of many of
our troubles is satan and his demons. We can not fight
him with carnal, natural weapons, but only with
supernatural weapons that God gives us for the
destruction of satan’s strongholds in our lives.
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Question 5
2 Corinthians 10:3-6 - 3 For though we walk in the
flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in
God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down
arguments and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought
into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being
ready to punish all disobedience when your
obedience is fulfilled.
Question 6
What is your reward for overcoming?
Revelation 3:11-12
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Question 6
Revelation 3:11-12- 11 Behold, I am coming quickly!
Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your
crown. 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar
in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more.
I will write on him the name of My God and the name
of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which
comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will
write on him My new name.
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Youtube Video
If I Were the Devil: Paul Harvey
(Warning for a Nation) (1965)