Lift One Another Up

Encourage: to fill with courage or strength of purpose especially in preparation for a hard task 1 a: to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope: hearten b: to attempt to persuade: urge 2: to spur on: stimulate 3: to give help or patronage to: foster

Why is it important to build others up?

Deuteronomy 3:28 NASB95

28 ‘But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he will give them as an inheritance the land which you will see.’

Isaiah 35:3–4 NASB95

3 Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble. 4 Say to those with anxious heart, “Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save you.”

Colossians 3:21 NASB95

21 Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

God’s Heart

Jeremiah 29:11 NASB95

11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:9–11 NASB95

9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Psalm 145:14 NASB95

14 The Lord sustains all who fall And raises up all who are bowed down.

Why is it easier to tear each other down than to build up?

We are all born in sin

Because of our sin nature, we want to be critical and negative

What is the cure?

1 Peter 1:22–23 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, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

How do we lift someone up?

Through words and actions

Proverbs 18:21 NASB95

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 25:11 NASB95

11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver Is a word spoken in right circumstances.

By seeing the potential and value that God has put inside another person

To Sum Up

John 13:34–35 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. 35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Romans 12:10 NASB95

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

Ephesians 4:2–3 NASB95

2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 Peter 4:8–9 NASB95

8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

Build yourself up (Proclamation)

Jude 20–21 NASB95

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

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