Living the New Life: Truth & Unity
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Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Personal
A. Bring your life in line with the Lordship and will of God
Two things I ask of you;
deny them not to me before I die:
Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me,
lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.
I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.”
B. Everything outside the will of God is falsehood.
I hate and abhor falsehood,
but I love your law.
-Job’s friends telling him his life is sinful. Job lost everything not because of a sin in his life, yet his friends keep telling him to repent and confess.
C. Bring your life in order so you can proclaim truth
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew
Matthew
“Preach the Gospel at all times & when necessary use words.”
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2. Corporate/Community
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
2. Corporate
A. Speak the truth
but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
i. Intentional
i. Intentional
Colossians
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
ii. Gracious
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
iii. Redemptive
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
Luke 6:41-
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
3. Unified Community
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
A. Encourage One Another
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Thessalonians
B. Build Unity
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
C. Grow the Kingdom
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”