Building Godly Relationships

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Building Godly Relationships
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Introduction

• We all are in a variety of relationships
• Christian, husband, father, neighbor, friend,
  preacher
• The intensity and makeup of these relationships
  vary
• Regardless, must conduct self properly and godly
• Biblical principles govern these relationships
• Some unique, but all share common expectations
• Lets examine how God would have us conduct
  ourselves in our various relationships

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Shine As Lights In The World
• You are the light of the world. A city set on a
  hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp
  and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it
  gives light to all in the house. In the same way,
  let your light shine before others, so that they
  may see your good works and give glory to your
  Father who is in heaven.
• Matthew 5.14-16

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Shine As Lights In The World
• Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
  that you may be blameless and innocent, children
  of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked
  and twisted generation, among whom you shine as
  lights in the world, holding fast to the word of
  life
• Philippians 2.14-16

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Shine As Lights In The World
• Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable,
  so that when they speak against you as evildoers,
  they may see your good deeds and glorify God on
  the day of visitation.
• 1 Peter 2.12

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Be Honest With All People
• Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'
  anything more than this comes from evil.
• Matthew 5.37

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Be Honest With All People
• But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either
  by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but
  let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so
  that you may not fall under condemnation.
• James 5.12

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Love All People, Regardless Of How They Treat You
• You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love
  your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to
  you, Love your enemies and pray for those who
  persecute you, so that you may be sons of your
  Father who is in heavenif you greet only your
  brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do
  not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore
  must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is
  perfect.
• Matthew 5.43-48

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Love All People, Regardless Of How They Treat You
• By this all people will know that you are my
  disciples, if you have love for one another.
• John 13.35

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Love All People, Regardless Of How They Treat You
• And above all these put on love, which binds
  everything together in perfect harmony.
• Colossians 3.14

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Judge Righteous Judgment
• Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the
  judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and
  with the measure you use it will be measured to
  you. Why do you see the speck that is in your
  brother's eye, but do not notice the log that 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.
• Matthew 7.1-5

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Judge Righteous Judgment
• Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right
  (or righteous) judgment.
• John 7.24

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Do For Others As You Want Them To Do To You
• So whatever you wish that others would do to you,
  do also to them, for this is the Law and the
  Prophets.
• Matthew 7.12

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Do For Others As You Want Them To Do To You
• And a second is like it You shall love your
  neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments
  depend all the Law and the Prophets.
• Matthew 22.39-40

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Do For Others As You Want Them To Do To You
• For the whole law is fulfilled in one word "You
  shall love your neighbor as yourself.
• Galatians 5.14

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Guidance From Sermon On The Mount

• Do For Others As You Want Them To Do To You
• So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good
  to everyone, and especially to those who are of
  the household of faith.
• Galatians 6.10

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveHusbands
• Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the
  church and gave himself up for her, that he might
  sanctify herthat she might be holy and without
  blemish. In the same way husbands should love
  their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his
  wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own
  flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
  Christ does the church, because we are members of
  his body.
• Ephesians 5.25-30

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveWives
• Train the young women to love their husbands and
  children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at
  home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands,
  that the word of God may not be reviled.
• Titus 2.4-5

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveParents
• Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger,
  but bring them up in the discipline and
  instruction of the Lord.
• Ephesians 6.4

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveNeighbor
• Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love
  your neighbor as yourself.
• Matthew 19.19

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveNeighbor
• If you really fulfill the royal law according to
  the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as
  yourself," you are doing well.
• James 2.8

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveFriend
• A friend loves at all times, and a brother is
  born for adversity.
• Proverbs 17.17

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveFriend
• Greater love has no one than this, that someone
  lay down his life for his friends.
• John 15.13

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveFellow-Christian
• A new commandment I give to you, that you love
  one another just as I have loved you, you also
  are to love one another. By this all people will
  know that you are my disciples, if you have love
  for one another.
• John 13.34-35

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveFellow-Christian
• Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo
  one another in showing honor.
• Romans 12.10

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveFellow-Christian
• Having purified your souls by your obedience to
  the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one
  another earnestly from a pure heart
• 1 Peter 1.22

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Every Relationship Governed By Love

• Every Relationship Needs LoveFellow-Christian
• Beloved, let us love one another, for love is
  from God, and whoever loves has been born of God
  and knows God In this is love, not that we have
  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. No one has ever seen God if we love one
  another, God abides in us and his love is
  perfected in us.
• 1 John 4.7-12

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What Is Love?

• A benevolent reaction to another person.
• Love does not lead one to necessarily do what the
  person loved desires, but what they need. It is
  a deep and constant affection for another without
  regard to their character and is actively
  selfless and sacrificial.

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What Is Love?

• It is a word better seen than defined
• Parable of Good Samaritan, Luke 10.30-37
• Gods love for all people, Matthew 5.43-48
• Jesus love as seen in his death, John 15.13
  Rom. 5.8

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What Is Love?

• Love Explained
• Love is patient and kind love does not envy or
  boast it is not arrogant or rude. It does not
  insist on its own way it is not irritable or
  resentful it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but
  rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things,
  believes all things, hopes all things, endures
  all things. Love never ends.
• 1 Corinthians 13.4-8

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Conclusion

• In all of our relationships we should seek to
  save
• For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the
  lost.
• Luke 19.10

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Conclusion

• In all of our relationships we should seek to
  save
• Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
  the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
  observe all that I have commanded you. And
  behold, I am with you always, to the end of the
  age.
• Matthew 28.19-20

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Conclusion

• In all of our relationships we should seek to
  save
• I have made myself a servant to all, that I might
  win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew,
  in order to win JewsTo the weak I became weak,
  that I might win the weak. I have become all
  things to all people, that by all means I might
  save some. I do it all for the sake of the
  gospel, that I may share with them in its
  blessings.
• 1 Corinthians 9.19-23

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Conclusion

• In every relationship, love needs to w/out
  boundaries
• It needs to be unlimited
• It needs to be unending
• It needs to be unselfish
• God wants every relationship to prosper in
  happiness and peace
• Let us do all God requires of us to achieve this
  goal

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Gods Plan For Your Salvation

• Hear Gods Word Matthew 17.5 Romans 10.17
• Believe in Christ John 8.24 Romans 10.9
• Repent of Sins Luke 13.3 Acts 2.38
• Confess Faith in Christ Romans 10.10
• Be Immersed in Water Mark 16.16
• Live Faithfully Revelation 2.10 Colossians
  1.21-23
• Repent of Sins Pray for Forgiveness - Acts 8.22
• Confess Sins - James 5.16 1 John 1.9

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