Godly Relationships
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· 6 viewsA look at what a Godly Relationship looks like according to scripture.
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5 Love Languages
5 Love Languages
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
There is a marriage counselor who wrote a best selling book that was transcribed in 30 different languages, The author’s name is Dr. Gary Chapman and the book is titled “The Five Love Languages” I highly recommend this book for anyone who is married or seriously considering to be in a marriage. It will save you a tremendous amount of headache later on in your marriage if you apply the principles it holds in it.
But what I want to talk to you about today will lead you up to that point and will get you ready for a serious relationship and hopefully leading you into marriage with the right person.
When you are dating someone, you see things through a pair of rose colored glasses. This is not uncommon or unnatural, you need to, that is the draw. This is the thing that pulls you in and what typically works best is opposite attractions. If you got two talkers then there is no room for listening. But if you got a listener, then the talker is so happy!
This is the thing that pulls you in and what typically works best is opposite attractions. If you got to talkers then there is no room for listening. But if you got a listener ohh the talker is so happy!
If you got two listeners then
The problem typically arises when you get past the honeymoon stages of these euphoric feelings and you come back to real life. Real responsibilities, Real Debt and Real Situations that are waiting for you at the corner of this endorphin high.
But Minister it feels so right and wonderful when I am with him/her… He’s so perfect and makes me feel so good! Yeap, and so does that Oxycontin after you’ve gotten the wisdom tooth pulled out. But just like the drug itself, once it where’s off it’s back to reality.
Real responsibilitis
but just like the drug itself once it where’s off it’s back to reality
So let’s look at what Godly Relationships look like.
Be Equally Yoked - Build on Christ and not on Yourselves.
14 Stop forming inappropriate relationships with unbelievers. Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness? 15 Can Christ agree with the devil? Can a believer share life with an unbeliever? 16 Can God’s temple contain false gods? Clearly, we are the temple of the living God. As God said,
“I will live and walk among them.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”
17 The Lord says, “Get away from unbelievers.
Separate yourselves from them.
Have nothing to do with anything unclean.
Then I will welcome you.”
18 The Lord Almighty says, “I will be your Father,
and you will be my sons and daughters.”
Be Patient & Kind - Build on Christ Centered Compassion.
1 Corinthians 13:4
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
4 Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn’t jealous. It doesn’t sing its own praises. It isn’t arrogant.
1 Corinthians
Be Humble not Haughty - Build on Christ Centered Humility.
1 Corinthians
4 Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn’t jealous. It doesn’t sing its own praises. It isn’t arrogant.
Be Selfless and Sacrificial - Build on Christ Centered Sacrifice.
5 It isn’t rude. It doesn’t think about itself. It isn’t irritable. It doesn’t keep track of wrongs.
1 Corinthians 13:
Be Forgiving and Forgetful - Build on Christ Centered Temperance.
6 It isn’t happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth.
Be Strong and Sensitive - Build on Christ Centered Perseverance.
7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:7
Finally let me close with this. If you find yourself struggling with any of these remember what we talked about last month with the “Laws of Sowing & Reaping” Your harvest will be whatever you invest into.
Some of you all maybe struggling with a relationship with a significant other and you have just had it up to the ceiling, you are wondering why they just can’t get it together. They’re broke and they need to be fixed and you are going to do the fixing. Well, let me start by reading this one verse.
Jesus says:
Luke 6:38
37 “Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment. Don’t condemn those who are down; that hardness can boomerang. Be easy on people; you’ll find life a lot easier. 38 Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity.”
Ask yourself these simple questions -
Do you have faith in the person and do you believe you can make it if you both put forth a true effort into the relationship.
Do you see hope down that dark tunnel is there a flicker of light in your relationship, and are you willing to stand on the hope of love.
Do you have the love of God in you and are you willing to make every attempt of saving what you believed in when you first fell in love with that person. Because remember love is a choice and all these will last forever but the greatest of these is love.
