00 Speaking to and Teaching One Another
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Wednesday nights.
Whole church GroupMe to share prayer requests.
Sing and meditate on and pray the Psalms.
Work through the sermon as time permits.
There isn’t a single example in scripture of personal prayer requests being given in a prayer meeting.
Paul gives some personal requests.
We are told to let our requests be made known to God.
We are told to pray for one another.
Lesson
It might be easy to think that if you could stay by yourself all day, then you might make it through the day a little more Holy.
Instead we begin interacting with “another” and we lose patience, get offended, offend them, we have disagreements.
It seems that Holiness would be easier if it was a private affair.
“Holiness is not a mystical condition experienced in relation to God but in isolation from human beings. You cannot be good in a vacuum, but only in the real world of people.” - John Stott
We used to have the idea that our relationship with God was a private matter.
True holiness may begin between God and the soul, but it finds full expression in community with other people.
We cannot fully obey and serve God without community.
The Thessalonian church turned from idols to serve the true and living God.
One of the ways they did that was to live our the one another's.
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
One another-ing is proof of salvation.
We don’t grow into it.
We should grow in it but not into it.
Can we build community without God?
We need to be careful to build community with God!
This week is part of that.
1. How we should speak to one another.
1. How we should speak to one another.
3 ways we should speak to one another in this verse:
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
A. Full of grace.
A. Full of grace.
In contrast to the way the world speaks.
B. Seasoned with salt.
B. Seasoned with salt.
Fresh, lively, spiritual wisdom.
Too little salt doesn’t do any good.
Too much salt ruins food.
C. With wisdom.
C. With wisdom.
“So that you know how to answer each person.”
Use the Bible.
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Next verse.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
D. Not conceited.
D. Not conceited.
Vainly glorifying yourself.
E. With the correct motives.
E. With the correct motives.
Not provoking.
Not envying.
Next verse
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
F. In love.
F. In love.
The proper message - truth.
With the proper motivation.
In a way that promotes growth.
We are to grow up in every way.
2. What we should speak to one another.
2. What we should speak to one another.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
A. Encourage one-another.
A. Encourage one-another.
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
This gives us some hint of what it means to encourage.
Build up (the heart)
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,
In what ways can we build up the heart of one-another?
Point out evidences of grace in their lives.
Fruit of salvation or fruit of labor.
We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews tells us how often and to what end we should encourage.
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
When was the last time you encouraged a fellow church member? (Built up their heart.)
B. Teach one-another.
B. Teach one-another.
The importance and value of teaching.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Building up: teaching and constructing.
To the end of unity and a knowledge of the Son of God.
To maturity.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Teach one-another to love the deeper truths of scripture.
Teach one-another to have discern between good and evil.
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so 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. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
Teach sound doctrine.
Teach men and women how to live.
C. Admonish one-another.
C. Admonish one-another.
Still falls under teaching.
Teaching is more building up.
Admonishing is calling out shortfalls.
When it comes to admonishing in the Bible, you find three main areas of admonishing.
The first area is theologically.
When another believer warns you about a wrong or strange belief you have they are admonishing you.
The second area is emotionally.
There are times you become angry, but you shouldn’t be.
There are times when you become afraid and there is no need to be.
There will be times we need to admonished regarding our emotions.
A third area regarding admonishing is our behavior.
This deals with what people do.
Here is where we are admonished to not steal, not lie, not cheat, and not deceive.
What keeps us from speaking to one-another?
To one-another well we must “have this mind.”
To one-another well we must “have this mind.”
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Humility goes low and lifts others high.
We don’t one-another because we are focused on self.
We need to have this mind and put others first.
It should be most natural for us to talk about the sermon after church.