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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.

Both passages mention “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.

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Peace is absence of fights and quarrels.

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

It keeps the unity of the church.

Eph 4:3

Both passages also mention unity when there is forbearance.

Col 3

Why?

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.

Jesus prayed to the Father expressing His desire for unity among the believers:

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.

Christ is extremely patient with us.

The apostle Paul acknowledge Jesus’ patience with him and said:

We are saved only because God was very patient with us.

We are saved only because God was very patient with us.

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.

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:

Forbearance and forgiveness go hand on hand.

“bearing with one another, and forgiving each other” Col 3:13

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:

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:

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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:

Let’s have a church where members bear with one another, where peace reigns among us, where patience, kindness, and forgiveness are always available.