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! New Year’s Restitution
Scripture:
Romans 12:9 Love must be sincere.
Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
[10] Be devoted to one another in brotherly love.
Honor one another above yourselves.
[11] Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
[12] Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
[13] Share with God's people who are in need.
Practice hospitality.
[14] Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
[15] Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
[16] Live in harmony with one another.
Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.
Do not be conceited.
[17] Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.
[18] If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
[19] Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.
[20] On the contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."
[21] Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Matthew 5:23 "Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, [24] leave your gift there in front of the altar.
First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
Worship was never designed to be a spectator sport.
It was never meant to be something that someone could come and watch.
Cheap truth and costly truth.
It was never meant to be something that we could ignore or express our desire that someone else needs to hear what we have not really needed to hear.
God intends to prompt us somehow when we come before him in the proper attitude and listening with our hearts wide open.
There are times when our response is more important than our presence.
It may be that it is more important by times under certain circumstances to be somewhere else acting in obedience than to be present in lethargy.
What unresolved issues might there be in our lives this morning that would make our presence somewhere else more meaningful to God than our being here to watch?
Worship awakens our hearts to the things of God.
Closeness to God highlights our need over our sufficiency.
This is not to draw attention to guilt or unworthiness but the wonderful grace of God which meets our needs and goes beyond our weakness and sinfulness.
The closer we get to God the more sensitive we become to others.
I believe that we are able to read people more clearly and that we have a greater appreciation for the impact of our words and actions on others.
The closer we get to Him the more we understand how much he loves the people that we deal with every day of life and thus we begin to treat them in the same vein.
There are times when God’s pleasure would have us to reach out to someone else in love before we reach out to Him in love.
When I first read this portion of scripture I skipped through to the end of the thought believing that the sense of it was that I could not worship God if I held resentment in my heart against someone else.
This instance deals with things that we have forgotten because they are not issues of our bitterness but issues of someone else’s lack of forgiveness.
That’s always the way that it is when we refuse to forgive.
We hold onto things that other people forget about and thus victimize ourselves.
We are the ones who suffer for our lack of forgiveness.
Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
The primacy of our interpersonal relationships over our acts of worship.
Why would that be?
I believe it is because relationships are fundamental to the advancement of the kingdom of God.
Learning how to live with people is something that we have hoped God would supernaturally bestow upon us when we come to him and so we have not consciously assigned it as a deliberate and intentional priority.
It may be something that you are over but it may be something that someone else is not over that makes it impossible for God to receive our worship.
We get distracted over a variety of things in our worship.
This is the one thing that makes it impossible for God to receive our adoration or our gifts.
The things that we give God are not as important as the state of our relationships with men.
The things that we do for God are not as important as the state of our interpersonal relationships with men.
What are the chief elements of reconciliation with your fellow man?
When have you done “as much as lieth within you . .
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One of the first admissions that a person must make is that it is my problem.
It is my responsibility because I am the one in the position to see someone else’s need.
Regardless of whether or not a person has the wrong perspective it is your problem if you wish to see it solved.
The one who is holding the offense against you is too blind to ever recognize the poison that they embrace.
You alone hold the keys to freedom for that person.
The needs of others are more important than my pride.
What God thinks and desires is more important than what the other may think.
Drivers liscense – nothing quite so aggravating as to stand in line thinking that we have everything that we need only to discover that we still need something else.
The primacy of our interpersonal relationships over our acts of worship.
You cannot grow in your faith or your Christlikeness with unresolved issues with your brother.
How do you know when you have done everything that you can possibly do?
When Leonardo da Vinci was painting the Last Supper, he had an intense, bitter argument with a fellow painter.
Leonardo was so enraged that he decided to paint the face of his enemy into the face of Judas.
That way the hated painter's face would be preserved for ages in the face of the betraying disciple.
When Leonardo finished Judas, everyone easily recognized the face of the painter with whom Leonardo quarreled.
Leonardo continued to work on the painting.
But as much as he tried, he could not paint the face of Christ.
Something was holding him back.
Leonardo decided his hatred toward his fellow painter was the problem.
So he worked through his hatred by repainting Judas' face, replacing the image of his fellow painter with another face.
Only then was he able to paint Jesus' face and complete the masterpiece.
See: Matt 5:23; Matt 6:14
In matters of forgiveness, as in all other virtues, the first step (forgiving) is comparatively simple compared to the second (reconciling).
Hell is always waiting for the rebound.
The only prevention of the rebound is perseverance.
The first moment of forgiveness is nearly always confused with other things--affection, delight, honor, pride, love of power; some good, some bad, all distracting.
... But then directly afterwards, the good elements withdraw and leave the reconciliation to its own serious energy; and if that energy is too weak, it will break.
... Nothing is achieved at once.
n Charles Williams, Leadership, Vol. 6, no.
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Reconciliation is not weakness or cowardice.
It demands courage, nobility, generosity, sometimes heroism, an overcoming of oneself rather than of one's adversary.
Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
The mark of community--true biblical unity--is not the absence of conflict but the presence of a reconciling spirit.
n Bill Hybels, Leadership, Vol.
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There is one eternal principle which will be valid as long as the world lasts.
The principle is--Forgiveness is a costly thing.
Human forgiveness is costly.
A son or a daughter may go wrong; a father or a mother may forgive; but forgiveness has brought tears.
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There was the price of a broken heart to pay.
Divine forgiveness is costly.
God is love, but God is holiness.
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