Treasuring People

90% of the time his marriage makes him glad he’s alive. 10% of time it makes him want to beg God kill me now.

one guy played his wedding video in reverse so he could see himself leaving the church with a smile again.

1. Speak Truth In Love – Build others up. We all need it.

Truth in love is not spiritual brutality.

Say what you mean. Mean what you say but don’t say it mean.

Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech.

…the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eats its fruit.

2. Grieving the Holy Spirit

**Lady who told me I grieved the H.S.

**after first service - lady told me I grieved the H.S.

is not…

a. Cutting worship too short.

b. Not letting someone prophesy.

c. Keeping the service or prayer meeting to less than 6 hours

It is..

a. Bitterness – root of bitterness defiles many

b. Wrath – the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God

c. Anger – be angry and sin not

d. Clamor – loud speaking

e. Evil speaking – malicious talk, slander.

It’s like bad breath. Only the person who has is doesn’t realize it stinks.

3. Forgiving others

Latin - Per- thoroughly

Donare - give

Greek - Charis - to favor to grace.

**Unforgivenss is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

**Unsatisfied revenge.

Who wants to bring glory to God?

My God is bigger than your bad attitude.

Donare - give

The only thing that has any control over me is the Spirit of God.

a. Forgive Frankly - if speaking truth were normal Paul wouldn’t have exhorted believers to do so.

b. Forgive Frequently -

Don’t let the sun go down.

Undealt with offense gets buried alive. Huge explosions are nothing more than accumulated pressure swept under the rug.

c. Forgive Freely - There is no condition to forgiveness. There is no IF in vs. 32

d. Forgive Fully - Jesus forgave all sin at the cross. The truth is all your sins were in the future.

e. Forgive Finally - You can’t change what happened but you can choose not to remember. You don’t have to replay the tapes daily.

4. HONOR OTHERS – Honor starts with respect (thinking well of) and ends in action.

a. In humility esteem others better than yourselves.

**Opens doors of favor for you.

Harvard couple buys Princeton a building.

Son who blesses a salesman.