Love Hurts
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God has created all of us to reflect His love.
Ways that we reflect God’s love in your family?
God has created all of us to reflect His love.
Ways that we reflect God’s love in your family?
Giving, Sacrificial, Serving, Time, Forgiving One another, accepting one another, pray for them, meet physical needs, show kindness, encourage them.
Giving, Sacrificial, Serving, Time, Forgiving One another, accepting one another, pray for them, meet physical needs, show kindness, encourage them.
What did I leave out?
What did I leave out?
Parent: Child accuses them of not loving…
Parent: Child accuses them of not loving…
for the Lord disciplines the one He loves
and punishes every son He receives.
The one who will not use the rod hates his son,
but the one who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Why we need the church? Community Accountability. Long before Jenny Craig, the church was a community that was supposed to hold one another accountable.
Read the Text:
WHAT WAS THE SIN? The sin was tolerance…go over the commanded action.
Summarize what Paul tells them to do...
Act to
The problem is toleration
We must lovingly watch over one another,
Love enough to correct one another.
Who? those among you,
What was to be done?
Why?
Thyatira
I know your works—your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. Your last works are greater than the first. But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.
We should hold each other accountable...
Christ’s reputation matters
Sin is dangerous
We love the sinner
Tough Love is needed in God’s family...
Tough Love is needed in God’s family...
1. To restore the wanderer
1. To restore the wanderer
“If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he won’t listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established. If he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But if he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you.
redemptive… v. 5
My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his life from death and cover a multitude of sins.
James 5:
NOT KICKING OUT BUT LETTING GO WITH THE HOPE OF REDEMPTION
Letting Baby Go
Topics: Babies; Control; Crisis; Dependence on God; Faith; Love; Rescue; Surrender; Trials; Trust
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Letting go of their children and watching them make their own way in the world is tough for any parent. For Tracinda Foxe, however, letting go came much too early in her baby’s life.
In December 2005, Foxe’s apartment building in the Bronx caught fire. With flames engulfing her third-floor bedroom, Foxe was forced to contemplate the unthinkable. As smoke billowed around her, Tracinda leaned out the window with her baby. Then she let go of her child. The infant tumbled three stories down into the waiting arms of Felix Vazquez, who performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the baby until paramedics arrived.
Moments later, Tracinda was rescued from her apartment by firefighters and reunited with her child. Neither was seriously injured. Asked later about the painful decision to drop her baby from the window, Tracinda said, “I prayed that someone would catch him and save his life. I said, ‘God, please save my son.’ And he did.”
—Catherine Donaldson-Evans, “The Good News of 2005,” FoxNews.com (December 30, 2005)
Larson, C. B., & Ten Elshof, P. (2008). 1001 illustrations that connect (pp. 283–284). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.
the sad thing is that you can wander off God’s path and be in the path of God’s people every week.
2. To protect the saints
2. To protect the saints
SIN SPREADS v. 6
You must not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship—because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry —so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
How quickly can a bad attitude spread in the church? How quickly can gossip spread? How quickly can a territorial attitude become commonplace in the church?
The leaven used in ancient Palestine was just a piece of fermented dough kept from a previous baking. The lump of leftover dough was either dissolved in water in the kneading-trough before the flour was added, or it was put into the flour and kneaded along with it, as described in one of Jesus’ parables
Major Contributors and Editors. (2016). Leaven. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
3. To reflect the transforming power of God.
3. To reflect the transforming power of God.
Major Contributors and Editors. (2016). Leaven. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.3. To reflect the transforming power of God.
3. To reflect the transforming power of God.
3. To reflect the transforming power of God.
Wedding preparations.
Not a holier than thou attitude, but a new life.
IDENTITY- you’ve been saved… “indeed unleavened” so act like it.
REPUTATION . v. 1
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LOST AND SAVED. v. 9-13
WE MUST HOLD CHRISTIANS TO A CERTAIN STANDARD.
who should reflect God’s transforming power…the lost or the saved?
Practical Application:
Don’t justify your actions by looking to the world or to others?
Speak the gospel in love to those in error. Don’t associate with them as believers.
Take the Log out of your own eye first
Be your brother’s keeper
Speak the truth in love:
Speaking the truth without love can serve the cause of evil, whether preaching or teaching God’s Word, rebuking a believer, or disciplining our children. Truth can be devastating. When clothed in love, however, it eliminates error, builds trust, and promotes the good of others. Calvin Miller states, “Malicious truth gloats like a conqueror. Loving truth mourns that it must confront and show a brother his error. Malicious truth struts at its power. Loving truth weeps to find that the correction it inspires may for a while cause great pain. Malicious truth cries ‘Checkmate, you are beaten!’ Loving truth whispers, ‘I correct you with the same pain you feel. But when the pain is over, we shall rejoice that honesty and love have been served.’”
Calvin Miller in Moody Monthly
Galaxie Software. (2002). 10,000 Sermon Illustrations. Biblical Studies Press.
Humble yourself to