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Introduction:
I would like to begin today by reading a quote:
They had come to me for counseling.
Now Jeff and Ellie sat across from me on opposite ends of the couch.
The air was heavy with tension.
They had been married for fifteen years, and had reached a point where they could barely say a civil word to one another.
Almost everything they said was an accusation, their words spit out with extreme anger.
My heart was sad.
I knew there was a time when they had adored one another.
I knew that they had once hung onto each other’s words and loved each other’s company.
Though they had once anticipated their marriage with excitement and hope, it was now a place of anger (“I can’t believe he/she did this to me!”) and regret (“I wish I had never been married!”).
(Author - Dave Harvey)
Have you ever been in a place where someone you care for has become someone you can’t stand to be around.
Maybe it’s your spouse.
This story was about two people who were married to one another.
Or maybe it’s a family member, a friend, or perhaps even a church member.
You used to laugh together, work together, maybe even cry together, but now you can’t stand each other.
Maybe you have regrets, but you don’t know what to do.
Our text this morning is about how to turn an angry situation into one in which the Grace of God has been magnified.
One in which your hate has been transformed back into love.
1 Peter 2L1-3
Introduction - I want to love like I ought to, but I keep messing it up.
You used t
Now I admit, This paragraph is primarily about love between church members.
This paragraph is an explanation for how to love one another in church in .
Introduction - I want to love like I ought to, but I keep messing it up.
Now I admit, This paragraph is primarily about love between church members.
This paragraph is an explanation for how to love one another in church in .
What I want to do, love, does not match up with my actions, anger, ...
But the problem in our love for one another is the same problem I have with my wife, children, coworkers, friends.
The process of transformation is also the same.
But the problem in our love for one another in the church is the same problem I have with my wife, children, coworkers, and friends.
Likewise, the way to change my hate into love is the same.
The principles are the same.
What is this drama?
It is the drama of sin and grace.
What do all of us do in our marriages in some way?
We all tend to deny our sin (while pointing out the sin of the other).
By denying our sin, we devalue grace.
What is important about this book is that at the level of the hallways and family rooms of everyday life, it is very honest about sin and very hopeful about the amazing resources of God’s grace in Jesus Christ.
So what does this text say about my love for others?
This paragraph is primarily about love between one another, but the problem in our love for one another is the same problem I have with my wife, children, coworkers, friends.
The process of transformation is also the same.
This paragraph is primarily about love between one another, but the problem in our love for one another is the same problem I have with my wife, children, coworkers, friends.
The process of transformation is also the same.
Proposition: We ought to cleanse our love for one another.
Transition: This text gives us 3 components for how to cleanse our love.
Note: This morning we are going to began looking at the first component of cleansing our love and after Easter we will look at the other two components of cleansing our love.
The first component, we ought to:
1) Purge our Relationships of Sin ()
Perhaps, you have been where I have been.
Perhaps, you have been where I have been.
I want to change my love, but my flesh gets in the way.
The problem with our love is our hearts have sin and our flesh desires that sin.
The problem with our love is our hearts have sin and our flesh desires that sin.
EXPLANATION:
You, see, we may even desire to love as God has called us to, but our flesh gets in the way.
It’s desires opposes what we know we ought to do.
That is, I desire malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander more than mercy and grace.
Maybe you desire these sins because of anger, pride, or fear,
but the major point is that you desire these sins more than you desire obedience for God and to demonstrate your love for God.
What is the biggest obstacle to have God-honoring love?
My sin.
Which means that the first component to changing my love from hate to kindness is to deal with my sin.
This text specifically mentions malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
We are to put off the these sins.
This is the same idea and word the Paul used in .
ILLUSTRATION:
This is the idea of putting the trash of your sin in trash can.
Take that pile of sin that is heaping up in your life, throw it away into the trash.
This is the idea of discarding something foul.
We are told we ought to cleanse our lives of:
- Malice - Is the desire to harm someone.
How do we show malice in our love?
There is some type of disagreement and because of your anger you desire to harm that person.
Now perhaps your sitting and saying, I have never been malicious.
I have never hit anybody before.
Then you are like me, I have never hit anybody, but I certainly have been malicious.
- Peter is probably not talking about only physical harm.
I can’t imagine the churches were known for beating each other up in arguments.
How can we be malicious without doing physical harm?
a) We attack their position, reputation, honor and respect.
It is not surprising that one of the following words is slander.
b) We find ways to not include them from social events.
“Don’t invite her”
c) We find ways to have our way over their way, even when it doesn’t matter.
We have observed this.
We look at someone’s argument and say, that is pretty petty.
Yet for them, they are furious about it.
And so the petty becomes a mountain.
In more personal relationships,
a) We cut down our loved ones with our words.
We say what we ought not to say, because we know it hurts them.
b) We purposely agitate them - “We push their buttons”
b) We find ways to get back at them.
“Fine, I will leave my dirty socks on the floor.
See how you like that.”
The fact is, often our love is mixed with maliciousness.
Those who we should love most, our family and our church, often are the greatest victims of our maliciousness.
And may I say,
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