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Question 4 |
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By: tmstanhope Date: April 1, 2020, 11:21 am |
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Love that is genuine will be evident in attitudes and behaviors |
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toward other people. What do you think it means to love one |
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another with brotherly affection and outdo one another in |
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showing honor? |
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Re: Question 4 |
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By: tmstanhope Date: April 1, 2020, 11:21 am |
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To intentionally love means to purposefully serve others without |
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complaint regardless of how much they may annoy you or even |
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often mistreat or take advantage of you. To intentionally love |
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is to not only do unto others as you would have them do unto |
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you, but also to serve them as unto Christ Himself. |
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(Colossians 3:23-24) "And what ever you do, do it heartily, as |
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to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will |
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receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve the Lord |
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Christ." |
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We can outdo one another in showing honor to each other by |
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intentionally looking for the good in each other and building |
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each other up. Avoid talking about others' faults. But instead |
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do as Ephesians 5:18-21 says: And do not be drunk with wine in |
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which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to |
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one another in psalms and spiritual songs, singing and making |
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melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all |
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things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
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submitting to one another in the fear of God". |
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I think that sometimes the best way to show honor to someone is |
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to bridle your tongue and choose to not talk about how that |
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person did you wrong. Instead we should ask God for wisdom, be |
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willing to yield and full of mercy, bringing peace to the |
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situation even though we have been wronged. It is our natural |
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response to want to talk to people and tell them how so and so |
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wronged us and how faulted they are. But sometimes peace is |
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brought about by simply sowing peace by choosing to be quiet. |
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Take your concerns and complaints to God alone in prayer and |
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allow Him to work in the situation. |
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