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Getting ready to wrap up the letter and trying to get everything that God has laid on his heart into this letter.

Relationships

How you relate to the things and people around you.

Relationship with the Father (through the Son)

This morning we will look as passages. that cover …..

Relationship with others

Believers.

Strangers.

Leaders.

Spouses

Relationship with stuff.

Hebrews 13:1–7 NASB95

1 Let love of the brethren continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body. 4 Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 5 Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” 6 so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?” 7 Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Motorcycle (Car)

Relationship with the vehicle. Can you operate it. Driver going fast on the straights.

Relationship with the road: yellow speed limit sign.

Relationship with other traffic: Speeding up for passings zones.

Your brothers and sisters in Christ

The Brethren

The Brethren ( Your fellow believers in Christ. Those that claim a belief in Christ)

Hebrews 13:1 NASB95

1 Let love of the brethren continue.

John 13:34 NASB95

34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

1 Peter 1:22 NASB95

22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,

Romans 12:10 NASB95

10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;

Nora, Lincoln, Elena. vs other kids.

We sometimes treat strangers better than we do our own family and friends.

1 Corinthians 12:12 NASB95

12 For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

If you fail to lover your brothers and sisters in Christ, you are cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Strangers

Hebrews 13:2 NASB95

2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Jesus said that when we do it to them, we do is to Him.

Matthew 25:35 NASB95

35 ‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;

Those less fortunate than you. The idea is that they are suffering for Christ.

Spouses (not just your own)

Marriage is to be held in honor among all…….

We are be attentive in our own marriage and a defender of all marriages.

The marriage bed is to be undefiled.

1 Corinthians 6:18 NASB95

18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

What if you have already messed up?

Accept God’s grace……..

1 John 1:9 NASB95

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Our Stuff

Hebrews 13:5–6 NASB95

5 Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” 6 so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?”

This is hard to preach with my new car parked outside. ……

Is is ok for believers to have nice things?

Philippians 4:11–13 NASB95

11 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. 13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

What is YOUR enough?

Joke about Adam and Eve….

The point here is that the problem isn’t having money or not having money. The problem is you can love God or you can love money….

Spiritual Leaders

Hebrews 13:7 NASB95

7 Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

consider the result……

Be someone worth imitating.