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What Lies Beneath
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Introduction:
1. Ill. of Alex and I going diving at Riverbend Retreat Center - WHAT LIES BENEATH
2. JUST AS WE COULDN’T REALLY SEE WHAT LIES BENEATH - SO MANY MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES ARE BLIND TO WHAT LIES BENEATH
3. ILL.
OF GOING DIVING IN COZUMEL - YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE EVERYTHING UNDER THE WATER - THAT’S OUR GOAL IN THIS SERIES - TO CLEARLY SEE WHAT LIES BENEATH - YOU CAN’T FIX WHAT YOU DON’T SEE
I. LET’S BE CANDID
Elephant - Unresolved Conflict
1.
A married couple had a quarrel and ended up giving each other the silent treatment.
Two days into their mute argument, the man realized he needed his wife’s help.
In order to catch a flight to Chicago for a business meeting, he had to get up at 5 a.m.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me at 5 a.m.”
The next morning the man woke up only to discover his wife was already out of bed, it was 9 a.m., and his flight had long since departed.
He was about to find his wife and demand an answer for her failings when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.
He read, “It’s 5 a.m.
Wake up.”
2. In one Peanuts comic strip, Lucy demands that Linus change TV channels and threatens him with her fist if he doesn’t.
“What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?” asks Linus.
“These five fingers,” says Lucy. “Individually they’re nothing but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold.”
“Which channel do you want?” asks Linus.
Turning away, he looks at his fingers and says, “Why can’t you guys get organized like that?”
Rust is a result of hydrated ferric oxides forming on iron containing materials by oxidation in the presence of water.
In other words, iron plus water equals rust.
Rust does not happen immediately, it takes some time.
It starts very slowly but when it is detected it must be dealt with immediately or the metal will deteriorate and start to disintegrate.
Rust automatically happens when iron-containing metals come into the presence of water.
Rust is inevitable, unless you take steps to prevent it from forming and (or) remove it as soon as it forms.
If metal is neglected or ignored, rust will completely eat through the metal rendering it useless.
Rust will cause something that was once strong and durable to become weak and brittle.
What is my point?
Unresolved conflict is the rust of marriage.
3. ILL.
OF RUST - Rust is a result of hydrated ferric oxides forming on iron containing materials by oxidation in the presence of water.
In other words, iron plus water equals rust.
Rust does not happen immediately, it takes some time.
It starts very slowly but when it is detected it must be dealt with immediately or the metal will deteriorate and start to disintegrate.
Rust automatically happens when iron-containing metals come into the presence of water.
Rust is inevitable, unless you take steps to prevent it from forming and (or) remove it as soon as it forms.
If metal is neglected or ignored, rust will completely eat through the metal rendering it useless.
Rust will cause something that was once strong and durable to become weak and brittle.
What is my point?
Unresolved conflict is the rust of marriage.
4. Rust is a product of nature.
Conflict is a product of human nature.
In any marriage conflict is inevitable.
It is not a matter of if conflict will arise, but when it will happen
2.A married couple had a quarrel and ended up giving each other the silent treatment.
Two days into their mute argument, the man realized he needed his wife’s help.
In order to catch a flight to Chicago for a business meeting, he had to get up at 5 a.m.
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3.In one Peanuts comic strip, Lucy demands that Linus change TV channels and threatens him with her fist if he doesn’t.
“What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?” asks Linus.
“These five fingers,” says Lucy. “Individually they’re nothing but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold.”
“Which channel do you want?” asks Linus.
Turning away, he looks at his fingers and says, “Why can’t you guys get organized like that?”
3.In one Peanuts comic strip, Lucy demands that Linus change TV channels and threatens him with her fist if he doesn’t.
“What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?” asks Linus.
“These five fingers,” says Lucy. “Individually they’re nothing but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold.”
“Which channel do you want?” asks Linus.
Turning away, he looks at his fingers and says, “Why can’t you guys get organized like that?”
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me at 5 a.m.”
The next morning the man woke up only to discover his wife was already out of bed, it was 9 a.m., and his flight had long since departed.
He was about to find his wife and demand an answer for her failings when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.
He read, “It’s 5 a.m.
Wake up.”
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One man said, “Few things upset my wife.
It makes me feel rather special to be one of them.”
6. 2 Lies The Enemy Gets Us To Believe About Conflict:
6. 2 Lies The Enemy Gets Us To Believe About Conflict:
a.
If We Bury It; IT WILL GO AWAY
b.
If We Ignore It; IT WILL GET BETTER
7. As we go behind family lines in David’s life - while looking picture perfect on the outside - we begin to see WHAT LIES BENEATH - WE BEGIN TO SEE THE RUST IN THE RELATIONSHIP - Unresolved Conflict
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As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window.
And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
Elephant - Unresolved Conflict
II.
LET”S BE COURAGEOUS
Dig Deep - What Lies Beneath (What’s Down There)
II.
LET
1. “ … do not let the sun go down on your anger”
III.
LET’S BE CONSISTENT
2. How often have you gone to sleep angry with (or at) your spouse?
How many times have you had an argument and failed to resolve it before going to bed? Has it been too many times to count?
How many days go by before you finally forgive each other?
How many issues have you simply ignored hoping they will go away?
Does the anger, the unforgiveness, the unresoveled issue, just go away with time?
No it doesn't and no they don't.
They sit just below the surface rusting away at the metal of your relationship.
3. It’s time to be courageous and deal with unresolved conflict
4. As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window.
And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
5. How do you get to the point of despising someone in your heart - Years of unresolved conflict
III.
LET’S BE CONSISTENT
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17 Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab.
I will give her to you in marriage; only serve me bravely and fight the battles of the Lord.”
For Saul said to himself, “I will not raise a hand against him.
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