R & R (part 1)
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Relationship Restoration
Relationship Restoration
Some of us need to have a little R and R. There comes a time and season when we all need a little time to have R &R. That sounds so good to our ears right now, I’m not your local travel agent, but I am your local pastor and the type of R&R I’m talking about is Relationship Restoration.
Over the course of the next few weeks, we will discover 4 duties or responsibilities to restoring relationships. If we haven’t encountered a relationship that need’s restoration, there will be a need to in the future. If you haven’t experienced hurt in a relationship then that’s awesome, but take notes and understand that this word will help prevent your relationship from being broken. Now that was my pretty intro, but now its about to get ugly. The 1st is...
Personal Duty
Personal Duty
We have a responsibility to look at ourselves first and examine the heart. The place where we think we can keep things secretive. Before I can even attempt to restore a relationship, I have to deal with me.
Truth of the matter is I can naturally deal with anyone. I can put people in different categories in my little world and if you don’t fit oh well that’s that. If I don’t want to deal with you, I can just cut you out, but there’s one person that I can never get rid of, the one person I can’t shake and that’s me. When I look in the mirror, I see things that I hate and that I can’t get rid of, things that I just seemed to shake. Selfishness, pride, anger, jealousy, bitterness...
If this was someone else, I could simply cut them off and out of my life, but this person I can’t cut out because this person is me.
And it’s so easy to live in a world where you believe that everyone else is the problem and we believe everyone else needs to get it together, when the primary person is you. We have a duty to examine our hearts personally.
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
A. Let love be without hypocrisy.
*hypocrisy -
The hiding of interior wickedness under the appearance of virtue.
Jesus loved bringing correction to the religious folk
2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
1. Let love be without pretending.
a. love is not fake
The truth is we like wearing mask
Why does Paul open with this statement?
At this point Paul moves from the charismatic gifts, functions exercised by individuals, to virtues he expects to see in all believers. Characteristically he begins with love.
2. The first thing Paul mentions, is the first fruit of the Spirit
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
3. Love is the criteria
a. Sometimes you have to look at yourself and really ask am I walking in love.
5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Love Is the Criteria.
You have to let love be.
-Let love live
-Let love exist
B. Abhor what is evil
the word abhor breaks down to in hebrew as Hate.
14 Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.
C. Cling to what is good
The Christian is committed to the way of goodness; his whole life is wrapped up in it (“glued” to it).
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