Sunday PM June 16
Is it going to be here today? We have some of our number were traveling together, but be able to spend time focusing on our father in Heaven listening to his words drawing closer to him together.
Colossians chapter 2 of us start by reading a Batman together here as is All rights to his brother-in-law say those who he seems to have never met face-to-face series Boston's to a recruit one and two together.
I want you to know how great a struggle I had on your back for those who haven't been together in law.
Your pulse is grind a great struggle for or a great conflict within him is that he has nothing to do the same words used in person be 6 or 12 fight the good fight set before us and athletic competition might go through such as the Olympic day or his brother. What is it that's causing him to have such a deep struggle within him as his prayer for the well-being of these places. Are you described that their hearts may be interested in it together and getting a knowledge of God in Christ in Westbury about 67 years. Somebody asked me what what is the primary concern that you have for these brother as as you go away?
Probably a pretty good description of what our number one thing for us to be. So as we think about what more than anything else what what should the internal struggle struggle in prayer be at our hearts begging for his having been in it together in lava.
We need to have this struggle dispassionate to desire for this kind of relationship with one another and how we function together as a body or as a family. How could we seek to accomplish? It's almost to storage with getting a picture in our minds of what a a congregation what a truth that is knit together and in love looks like what is a closed Church in here is really different pictures and illustrations for us rap the New Testament to describe what that looks like.
Cuz we think about how the New Testament talk about the church as a body. It doesn't just use that alteration in the contacts. I'll be under the authority one had to use that as well for 25 and 26 on the food. Call is uses. This illustration of the body does have a relationship with one another so that there may be no divisions in the body. What does the members I have the same thing here with? See, how old is Robert a relationship that we have one other will phone we are it is a body. We need to have it here. If it's another one of us suffers. We all suffer one flesh relationship.
It's all what you do if you get up in the middle of the night. How's the rest of your body? You need to get with the program to help with the pain to that part of your body as you have a nice warm with me. hours of other things.
Describe to have that kind of intimate understanding of $1 bottles of one another's successes and Carlos week. We need to be part of each other's eyes.
We need to have the kind of close-knit relationship as a body that we're very quickly. That we want to do everything we can to 10216. Again uses this illustration of the church as our bodies of the whole bottom and held together by the body for the building up of itself in love. Your body is going to function properly is going to work properly and held together by whatever you joined the B B B B together, we have ligaments that are properly hopefully properly fit together and those parts of our body is not properly functioning.
You need those parts of your body together.
closely intertwined I saw this picture of the internet some years ago. I think it well illustrates what we're talking about here all wrapped around each other that says hugs Keep Us Alive. And hugging your lungs and your lung is hugging your heart and there we Will Keep Us Alive by holding back together is bad cuz your body stops.
That's not very good news right start moving around and not supposed to send us.
We need to be pulling together a relationship as rather be more than just a business relationship. It's really the focus here is spiritual and not
you have to be more than just this Nicole. We need members functioning as a ligament.
How am I supposed to be serving?
maybe part of your woman part of your service within the body is the health hold this body together is that helped pull people that got her help make sure that we are developing those What can I do to help?
Illustration of God's people as a family present brothers and sisters and 21 Luke chapter 8 for 2021 that my mother and my brother. Are you hear the word of God?
Are Jesus says that as fellow disciples? In fact, he showed us that in some cases or our relationship as spiritual family.
You think about you know how much we value family need to have that kind of had that kind of approach of keeping the family together, but it comes. 1st Timothy Chapter 5 Verse one and two as Paul is instructing Timothy about his work along with the rather than they are in that position said do not sharply rebuked an older man.
man as brothers The older women is Mother's any younger women as sister.
Who is the brother of relationship an interaction that you need to have?
I think many times I would probably be reached by mother a lot more affectionate that I would.
engage in more than just small talk with my or Siri what's going on in my life? What's on my mind if my brother or my sister? That's the kind of relationship. I need to be developing. I need to be striving for the future endeavors.
What about the fries? If it doesn't come naturally takes time to takes effort. Even if you were blessed with those kinds of relationships together.
Do we need to be prioritizing developing those kind of relationships among our brother? We need to work on that. CC in the New Testament
is the idea of a holy kiss when you read this again in the Epistles at the end of a Canon 16 by 20 second Corinthians 13 verse 12 many times at the end of his letter.
Disney Peter also said the same thing 1st Peter 5:14.
Take me to understand in the culture of their time this might communicate something slightly different than it would if we did it today, you know, if I come in and I kissed by walk on the team. I know that's probably not going to communicate the same thing that it would back and then that time and then that over right?
There is a principle here. That means you want there's a principle here as we think about what this
A close friend it was an affectionate and intimate for the expression of brother. I think probably if we were to parallel this with our culture today would be more than a whole you can check. You probably be more like a holy hot.
Parents describing the type of relationship ever not just casual acquaintances that seen each other in your once or twice a week and just share the church compartment of Our Lives. This is describing us as a family as a household and the confusion going on your relationship.
What do you call the gutter with my grandparents in Unwritten rule?
Look at that. That's the culture.
Find a poker place in through there by 1/4 of that. I was a common.
You remember John 13? Biking sad by this. They will know you are my disciples. I don't love you have the $1. Here is they open the set apart. By the kind of love that they have different than the way the people in the world.
People need to see that relationship that we have with one another and also the idea of us having a fellowship.
I hope maybe sometime in the future. So we can talk more about the biblical concept of Fellowship.
Cursory understanding what we're talking about here.
You're awesome day of Pentecost as many are coming to the Lord three thousand souls are added to the church are baptized in response to the gospel year Emerson 42. It says they were continually devoting themselves to A fellow man to the breaking of bread and a break. Here it is. What it is supposed to be devoting ourselves to his gospel is a pretty good summer.
Fellowship Fellowship 43 everyone's I'm feeling a sense of all and then you lovers and signs were taking place through the apostles and all those who have believed were together and had all things in call begin selling their property and possessions conversion sharing them with all as anyone might have any other
And if anything you said they were all things in they were comparing with one another as each had me to commune together at work. So this is Belichick that they had showed itself even outside of the collective Church, They were
that's as much of a pattern of what the other people are and how God people are supposed to function and be in a relationship.
This is who I'm supposed to be. So we needed it to be devoting ourselves to Fellowship.
Oh, no, it is not having pizza parties and playing basketball together. We're not Fellow Pizza Lovers. We're not fellow basketball players or fellow Cardinals fans. We are primarily a fellow Christians.
formal Hearing in the work of the Lord However, I think outside of the context of the collective we do see that to do that effectively. We need to be part of each other's lives and that's what we see in this pasture. We couldn't just day-by-day Vincent.
That means I mean your house that means we need to be making an effort to develop these kinds of relationships even outside of these four walls even worthy businesses understand this concept of the value of 10. They understand that they're there is a need to develop a relationship so that people can work together effect. To have some genuine at team-building as well. We need to be more than simply. It was developed during relationship with one man and fellowship and camaraderie in our last day or picking up the collection and using it in certain biblical way, but there's also a day-by-day kind of hoping that we as individual Christian. I need to be devoting ourselves.
I do this is the picture that we get them above the kind of church that we need to buy him. Is that will be described as a group as a close-knit I can guarantee you that we need to work on developing those kind of relationship.
Well, I did sometimes what you say Oscar in developing this as a relationship one day is the distractions of what we each have. Our own Pursuits in life are in jobs are on Bobby's. Our own things going on is very easy to let those take most of our attention or I'm looking at Luke chapter 10.
Remember here at Luke 10:41 42 just go to the house of Mary and Martha & Mary's not helping her. She's frustrated and ask Jesus about that verse 41. Is that the Lord answered the second for Martha Martha you're worried about but only one thing is necessary for marrying. This goes in the good part, which will not be taken away.
In the subject Department was distracted by much surfing. Is boxer being a bad thing that she was involved in? And yeah, it was distracting her for what was Moses?
It is not that we are giving them more worldly things, but maybe it's been good. And wholesome thing that we are allowing to crowd out the most.
I need to hear Jesus is exhortation. One thing is that the good part of our relationship with the Lord will show up in our service in his What what good things distract? Sports Authority's Community programs Hobbies household projects family event working an extra job What was good things? Do your time and effort with from day today? Amelia missing baby is very good things and it's a struggle to properly balanced all the opportunities and responsibilities that we have. Are you putting?
If we talked about that a lot when somebody says is most important.
Your relationship with God our relationship with his people is Bob his children and God's word x b spreading God's word Evangelistic.
What's the most? I think maybe we need to sit down and evaluate a what?
To developing the kind of a relationship disturbing one another to accomplishing God's work in my life within the context of his bottle of art is more than that. Sometimes it's companionship with the world developing a close relationship that we don't have any
people who aren't part of the family of God in there. Corinthians 6
your call is reaching out to the revenue for and making an appeal to them 7 verse 11 and 12 is open. Why? You are not restrained by us. But you are restrained in your own affections. Our heart is open wife. We're not talking about In this passage look down a sports music. That is do not bound together with unbelievers for what partnership White Christmas at Walmart for what Fellowship hath light with Darkness temple of God.
He said you were strained by your affections because you know, our hearts are open to listening instead. Your affections are tying you into the culture around and if you see me all the words that are used to describe the kind of relationship they have with unbelievers with Wallace this with Darkness. bound together or jokes partnership Fellowship things in common
agreement words that describe the kind of attachment that we have to the world. 4 words that describe a relationship
we need to be in the yolk together. What would be described with one another? image of plowing a field side by side Wake me me and you have a partnership of Fellowship Harmon. community That's the kind of relationship. We need to apply.
But those who are pulling in a different direction who are not serving the lord close ourselves off voice for ourselves. We don't have any kind of interaction or relationship.
Get me the salt of the earth and we're not getting out and showing love and interested in people in the world around us as far as it describes the attachments.
I didn't have the most intimate relationships most meaningful relationship.
Or send it to me. Here he says when we are the Temple of the Living God just as God said I was Welling them walk on them call the elf from the Midwest and East 2nd. You're not touch. What is a home for you? I will. It's okay. The reason for not developing a strong relationship with our brother has been moved you into getting those kinds of relationships. Or developing those kind of an intimate and close bond with those really aren't serving. The lord are helping us through our ups good for tank warmers for friendship with the world is enmity.
Who are the people that your closest?
We are closer to people of the world. We are people of God should come as no surprise. If we end up being closer to the ruler of this world than we are to the Lord our common bond with her were foundationless Princeton the mutual interests and hobbies. Find it but easier to develop relationships with people of the world. Call first thing.
foundation for Elizabeth Find Devotion to him.
Torn apart by conflicting desires by selfish Lots J's 4 verse 1 and 2 been does. What is the source of morals and how long? Is it normal for your pleasures that way the war in your members who've lost and do not have so you can either you are envious because I've changed.
Are the older office?
Okay, where we stood and treating one another like damn.
Sometimes we end up being divisive quarreling.
Homeless problem look like it comes from our own desires are on the spirits getting in the way.
When you talk about the works of the Flesh and the Fruit of the Spirit.
Go to person you to notice something about that the worst of the Deeds of The Flash.
I'm going to notice how many of the works of The Flash have to do with division and Conference. with our relationships with other people wait until I start a 19 it does now. The Deeds of The Flash are evident to her a morality and accurate is the trial today. I Dollar Tree store 3 in the Jealous outbursts of anger disabuse dissension fax it ending drunkenness browsing of things would like or were you just as I work for warranty that those who practice such things will not in here.
Do you notice that over half of the things listed there have to do with our relationship?
What is dying of our own desires? You know, what what is important to us? This one? Cause? barrier between the create distance and relationships with one another What is the blame for that were allowing or desire to have a stronger pull in our hearts and spirit of Christ that unites us has one while God's design for is one body with water. And God's spirit doesn't produce. Where is the division where there are people hurting one another?
Good morning Guided by his beard. the truth of his word and attitude
Then we're not going to have those kind of. I can be back to work.
We're going to Guided by the spirit of Christ be able to work through that and strengthen our relationship through any conflict that may arise through the Flash. Go back to the 1st Corinthians 12 with me again acid where it talks about God's people as a bog. 20 + 12 + 15 + 16
Number 14 for the body is not one member, but many percipient is a foot says what's on my ham. I got a part of the body. Is it not for this reason any lesser part of the body. For this reason any less a part of the body? Yogi or if you have them as anyone
look up later and 121. Does mei cannot say to the hand I have no need of you or again the head to the feet. I have no need.
Oh. The result in the body of the members become selfish if they become focused on their own wall that I want to serve in this way. And if I don't get answered that way then things don't go the way that I
you're not helping either way that I want you to help me and do it and you don't lose you. Can we start over?
No, we're going to do corn apart what happens if the hand gets tired of picking up the food?
I'm talking to you through go to the bar what would happens if you get tired of getting out of bed? I need to buy to just look out for themselves for life. Things are going the way that we wanted to go. So we're serving something about the body.
That's what's up.
Don't know where I fit in and how I feel about it. It's about serving for the well-being of the Holy when we had a genuine care for one another turn the volume up to five. The members begin to selfishly serve himself the body will fall apart.
the word of function the way that God intended for us to crucify self that's what he needs to do. The Bible right to crucify self is not about me. And I'm here for you.
Is that is that her attitude? That's why you
I'm here for. That's God's design and when you drove us instead is your for ourselves on that how we look at the service and that's how we look at our service in in the body overall. It is going to tear us apart.
Conclude tonight by talk about what it is. Yes, we need to get rid of those things that are important but we need to actively be cultivating the things that will knit us together first and foremost a common prostitute that they made the knit together in love.
looking chapter 2 What start reading together in Murder 2?
Allrecipes brother and says I make my boy, Kingston. By being of the same are maintaining the Same Love United in spirit and take on what purpose do not do nothing from selfishness. Millennium mine regard one another as more important than yourselves record. You not merely look out for your own personal interest, but also for the interest of order images the brand and to maintain the same love a common love from one.
Tough as selfishness will pull us apart selflessness will pull us together. We need it to become more in tune to the interests and desires the needs of one another than we are tomorrow regarding. Only looking out for our own interests. But also for the interests of others are what can I do to serve you and only then we'll be off.
I'm going close ass to the selfish desires that falls apart. Do you need a Selfless Love for one of them? You all need to have that photo the body should not be made out of those concerns and those who are sir. No up of the participants in the consumers of those who encourage those who are those are given those who perceive. The way the Body Works the way that God intended. Is that where you're all and we all are. If we all in prison, that's what everybody is going to be encouraged if we all give then all over.
Hey, this is relationships 101 it is but I want you to do for me.
Relationships are cultivated and grow and are fixed.
All set self aside and have the kind of selfless love that Jesus had some of us didn't look out for his own interests, but looked out.
Going to bring us together.
Somebody has to step up.
No matter what the feeling it is for me or not.
That's a part of Jesus. Jesus didn't serve us because he got a lot out because I'm bringing this up this with them at the end.
A lot to serve not to be served but to serve and to give his life for ransom. I love you cultivate this common. Love is Selfless Love for one another. We need to also be pursuing a common goal if you're still in Bolivia, Bolivia.
Put in 127 hold.
Set a reminder I come and see you or remain absent. I will hear that you are standing firm in one spirit with one mind driving together for the faith of
You're striving together working side-by-side later on in Chapter 2 in Merced to as we read earlier make my joy complete by being at the same mind making the same on one purple. Anton 1 Do we need to have some some teamwork and that that happens five by focusing on a coming to work focusing on a common goal that we need to be side-by-side working to spread the gospel working to save the law working to encourage the week or month. Call distracted by but serving and other areas of life of prioritizing the good part together running the race fighting the fight side by side and tearing one another as we pursue the spread of God and His glory. Yeah, we talked about that being equally yoked there so I can really insist. We need a comment was that meaning that means that we are out in the field. Pressing forward in the same direction for the work of the Lord. The problem arises when I start pulling with my own selfish goals. Later on a 20 of 2. 25
what is 225 all talked about Aphrodite says but I thought it necessary to send you a ride on my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier who is also your messenger and it really work.
Cruella de Vil that's a hint of leaving the father accomplish during the work of the master fighting the battles are heading for a side by side.
We looked into pieces for earlier and talking about the body or even notice what it says again said the whole body causing the roof of the Bible is building up of itself.
How's the body world? Does it happen by your simply just having really good albums are simply having a really good Vangelis. Sorry about that one by it really good.
Is over at work every joint every ligament is working together with a common goal, intent and purpose, but I got to help this body.
No individual or group of individuals get to help the body grow.
If we're going to Dallas these kinds of relationships. It's a one-way thing out. We need to be willing to to extend this kind of love and interest in other people whether or not they were if I'm going to develop a relationship.
Call Burlington. That's the way it works. And so I can't get close to you. If you're not willing to do close to me. If I Stay Most of us would like to have in China.
But it has to start with me putting in the effort to develop that kind of relieved if me going outside of my comfort zone and saying you know what I don't know how this is going to be received. I don't know whether or not.
I will give you a heart.
And so it was sometimes we think well, I would love that kind of relationship to be at other people's homes to be part of other people's lives outside of these four walls, but nobody's invited me over recently and you know, no one's invited to no one's opened up to me about what's going on in their lives until I
stop waiting around for someone else recognize a responsibility that we the world to develop in Skyrim close-knit relationships with one another
Hebrews 3:13 says but encourage one another day after day as long as it's called 24 and 25 says for one another, but encouraging one another all the more reason to you today.
Call instructions to us.
Is that we need to be considering how we can improve how we can build up each other? Goody's artist commands to to some of us that the creature in the Bible class teacher to make sure it's easy.
What about our unit together in love with the brother in around you? I think the Lord that we do have many of those guys.
I need to grow and develop in just a minute.
That is why I intentionally putting in effort. To reach out to encourage the bill.
So what do you need to work on today? What's all have the same struggle.
But all are so I can get together. The law to make it tonight and is not only to those who need to come forward I can get in there like the price for the first dinosaur that is your case with me. You would Rejoice with the angels in heaven to see you. And wanted to see you started in life. I need to do combat something for all of us Reddit. these doors
but we can help him in that if we do, it's me and if you do need the prayers of these rather than you need to say something and it just typed in the darkened to bring it to the life. You want to help you with that you love and care about you.