It’s Time to Take Your Relationship Deeper

Philippians 2:4 NLT

4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

Matthew 13:23 NLT

23 The seed that fell on good soil represents those who truly hear and understand God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

James 2:22 (NLT)

22 You see, his faith and his actions worked together. His actions made his faith complete. UNDERSTANDING + ACTIONS = Fruit

1 Peter 3:8–9 (NLT)

8 Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude. 9 Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing.

Choose Unity Over Division

Greek- One mind- share same perspective

“I’ve never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friend”. -Thomas Jefferson

John 17:3 (NLT)

3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

John 17:21 (NLT)

21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

John 17:24 (NLT)

24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

Psalm 133:1 NLT

1 How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

Choose Love over Convenience

1 Peter 3:8 (NLT)

8 Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted…

Sympathize=Share Emotions

Love=Action

Tenderhearted ≠ Hard Hearted

1 Peter 3:18 NLT

Christ suffered* for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.*

Chose Humility Over Pride

1 Peter 3:8 (NLT)

8 Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.

Glue & Fire

1 Peter 3:9 (NLT)

9 Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing.

1 Peter 3:9 (NLT)

9 Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing.

Philippians 2:5–8 (NLT)

5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

6 Though he was God,

he did not think of equality with God

as something to cling to.

7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;

he took the humble position of a slave

and was born as a human being.

When he appeared in human form,

8 he humbled himself in obedience to God

and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

This week:

Sacrifice your preferences

Sympathize, love, tenderhearted

Take up your cross