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Transcript of Loving Confrontation
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Loving Confrontation
Covenant Series VII
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Review
God is a covenant making and keeping God Covenants are around lifes most important
relationships: God, Marriage, the Church Many of Gods secrets are in the covenant Covenants reveal: character, motives, plans Covenant reveals the loving kindness of God: Hi
strength, steadfastness, and love
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And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed,The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious,longsuffering, and abounding in goodness andtruth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgivinginiquity and transgression and sin, by no meansclearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of thefathers upon the children and the childrenschildren to the third and the fourth generation.Ex.34:6-7
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Last week we saw in covenant relationship theneed for the counsel of a friend. Today: The need for LOVING CONFRONTAT
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God gives us MODELS more than messages For when we were still without strength, in due time
Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteouman will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someonewould even dare to die. But God demonstrates His
own love toward us, in that while we were still sinnersChrist died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wraththrough Him. Romans 5:6-9
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ACTIONS speak LOUDER than words! Manremonstrates God DEMONSTRATES! Look briefly at what sin is and has done to us
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Behold, the Lords hand is not shortened, That itcannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannothear. But your iniquities have separated you fromyour God; And your sins have hidden His face
from you, So that He will not hear. For your handare defiled with blood, And your fingers withiniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tonguehas muttered perversity. Isa. 59:1-3
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Sin, separates us by its very nature. Sin is relation breaking Gen.3 death IS
separation and the first sin was the first break
in relationship Cains sin was a break not just against God bu
against his brother. Gen.4
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Sin is the fracturing of ALL our relationships-with God and others. Love is the opposite of sin love is the re
of the breach between two parties. in whilewe aere yet sinners.Christ died
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Love counteracts sin and its effects All of the law can be summed up in love
Teacher, which is the great commandment in thelaw? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord yoGod with all your heart, with all your soul, and with your mind. This is the first and great commandment.And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbas yourself. On these two commandments hang allthe Law and the Prophets.
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This love thing has been overlooked in lieu ofreligion. Its easier to perform an external,religious act than it is to love. But Jesus didnget religious when it came to our sin andseparation, He got REAL. My sin wasnt aninconvenience for Him He had to die!
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Why because LOVE demands a relationship! Love seeks out and lays down its own will and
comfort for the need of another. Love says NO! to separation, it will not allow
anything to break the bond it shares withanother.
We are ok with separation God is not. He JEALOUS!
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So what do we do about separation in ourlives? In our walk with God? In ourrelationships? Our marriages? Our children?
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Leviticus 19 speaks to relationships and how theyare tied to the law of God.
You shall not hate your brother in your heart.You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not
bear sin because of him. V.17 This is parallel with love thy neighbor as
thyself
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It takes great love to confront someone. It takes great wisdom to speak to the sin, and not
reject the sinner Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my
spirit on you; I will make my words known toyou. Pr.1:23
The mechanics of confrontation