Bearing with one another.
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· 340 viewsCommunity living requires that we be willing to bear with one another.
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The church is a group composed by sinners who believe in Jesus and have decided to worship and serve God together; but they’re sinners after all.
Community living requires that we be willing to bear with one another.
When sinners practice community living, no matter how much they love Jesus, there will be friction between them. Such frictions can result in fights and separation if we do not learn to put into practice forbearance or bearing one another.
Bearing one another is extremely important for community living. Why?
It helps to keep peace between brethren.
It helps to keep peace between brethren.
Both passages mention “peace”
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.
being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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And according to , we have been called to the peace of Christ. How can we have the peace of Christ if are not at peace with others?
According to , we have been called to the peace of Christ. How can we have the peace of Christ if are not at peace with others?
God wants a church where the brethren live in peace between them! Not like cats and dogs, but in harmony! That will not be automatic, it will require the effort of all members of the Body.
So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
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Peace is absence of fights and quarrels.
All fights are due to lack of tolerance.
All fights are due to lack of tolerance.
Most of the fights between “Chavo” and “Kiko” or “Ron Damón” ended with Chavo saying “It’s because you don’t have patience with me”.
Another meaning of “ἀνεχόμενοι ἀλλήλων” is “having patience with one another”.
We get exasperated (irritated) when we lose our patience with someone. That’s why Chavo used to say, “be quiet because you are irritating me”.
We all are irritating one way or another. We irritate or get irritated by people at work or school, by our spouses, by our brothers and sisters, the sheep by our pastor, and the pastor by the sheep.
No one is a “little gold coin”... or “meek dove” that never irritates others. Therefore, we all need to bear one another.
Bearing one another keeps the unity of the church
being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
It keeps the unity of the church.
It keeps the unity of the church.
Eph 4:3
Both passages also mention unity when there is forbearance.
Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
Col 3
being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Why?
Because forbearance is based on love.
Because forbearance is based on love.
The best example that forbearance is based on love is marriage. None of the spouses if perfect; both do things that exasperate the other… (not putting the toilet seat down, not picking our dishes, making us be late most of the time, procrastinating on things the other has asked, etc.), but we tolerate them because we love the other.
There are several similarities between marriage and church: no one forced to get married..., no one forces us to stay together…, we have children…, neither spouse is perfect…
But if we practice the exhortation given last week: love one another, we’ll continue together, we’ll demonstrate having patience with those that exasperate us, annoy us, or even fail us.
If Jesus had patience on us, sinners, why should not we have it on others?
Love is the bond of unity.
Love is the bond of unity.
Jesus prayed to the Father expressing His desire for unity among the believers:
“This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
The excuse given by most when they decide to divorce is “between us there is no love anymore”.
The excuse given by many people that seek a divorce is “there is no longer love between us”. The bond of unity has been destroyed!
A bond is something that keeps two parts together. It is like glue that sticks two things or a chain link that keeps two other links together.
A bond is something that keeps two parts together.
We can not bear one another if we do not put love on us daily. Everyday we’ll face disagreements, disappointments, offenses, etc. and we must be ready to show love to them.
When we do it and bear with others, we reflect Christ in us.
It reflects Christ in us.
It reflects Christ in us.
Christ is extremely patient with us.
Christ is extremely patient with us.
The apostle Paul acknowledge Jesus’ patience with him and said:
It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
We are saved only because God was very patient with us.
We are saved only because God was very patient with us.
Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
Those are exactly the same qualities described in and Col 3:12 that He expects us to have in order to bear one another.
Christ loves us despite our weaknesses.
Christ loves us despite our weaknesses.
We do not deserve Christ’s love! We are sinners, we fail Him every moment, we’re unfaithful, disobedient, ungrateful, and wicked, and still He loves us!
He wants us to love our brethren despite their faults:
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Forbearance and forgiveness go hand on hand.
Forbearance and forgiveness go hand on hand.
“bearing with one another, and forgiving each other” Col 3:13
See your faults before other’s.
See your faults before other’s.
Both passages mention the need of being humble to bear with others. With humility, we must acknowledge that we also have our faults.
When we are not humble, we are prone to see the speck in our brother’s eye; but we’re also proud not to see the log in our own eye.
That was the problem with the proud Pharisees. They were like many who think that they can have their own faults, but others not. They were always ready to accuse others, but did not see their own sin. That’s why Jesus told them:
“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? “Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Forgive as Christ forgave you.
Forgive as Christ forgave you.
Because Christ loves us, He forgives us!
He gave us the example and commanded us to forgive one another in the same way:
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
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If God forgives me, who am I not to forgive others?
If God forgives me, who am I not to forgive others?
“Learn to forgive because you have your own sins.”
If His forgiveness is unlimited, why am I to limit mine?
See Limited Forgiveness slide.
The meaning of seventy times seven...
We should never forget these words:
‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Let’s have a church where members bear with one another, where peace reigns among us, where patience, kindness, and forgiveness are always available.