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Peace This Christmas
Jake coming home for Thanksgiving.
I’ll be Home For Christmas.
There’s No Place Like Home for the holidays.
I went as far as I could
I tried to find a new face
There isn't one of these lines that I would erase
I lived a million miles of memories on that road
With every step I take, I know that I'm not alone
You take the home from the boy
But not the boy from his home
These are my streets, the only life I've ever known
Who says you can't go home?
Who says you can't go home?
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy born a rolling stone
Who says you can't go home?
Who says you can't go home?
I been all around the world, and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go
Who says you can't go home?
Bless- it means eulogy.. it means give a good word, to speak well of, to wish the best for someone else.
Think of it this way.
Give a good word to someone who’s done you wrong.
Think the very best for someone who’s difficult to live iwth.
And please note, it means to keep on doing that to those who wrong you who persecute you .
It’s not a one time event… it is somethign that must be done continually.
Think of it like this.
“Be a continual blessing to those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
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Now you may say, how does a person do this- right?
Well, you need context.
Go back to Romans 12.1 for a moment.
The context of our passage today is God’s mercy.
Mercy of God.
So in the context of God’s mercy to us, we are to be living sacrifices .
What is a living sacrifice?
Every sacrifice offered in the temple died.
Even Jesus, died.
It’s important to get a grip on the phrase, “Living sacrifice”.
Because no one would choose to die, aside from Jesus, as a sacrifice.
Look at Galatians 2.20, for a minute
Paul says he’s been crucified with Christ.
To be crucified leaves you as dead.
But , Paul goes on to say he lives.
Christ lives in me.
If Christ lives in me, I am dead.... and the person who persecuted me is responded to not by the dead man “Joel”, but rather by the Christ that lives in me.
That’s how we do it.
In view of what Christ has done for me, i let that love of Christ live out of me.
I don’t respond, rather Christ responds through me.
Because when I respond, I respond in sin and equal and opposite reaction, with revenge and malice or at least some vengeance in me.
Jump and look at what Paul says in the 16th verse,
Live in harmony with each other.
Do not be haughty (proud).
It means don’t be conceited.
So what does proud have to do with this discussion?
Everything.
Because the times we live in are times of extremes, and the people who are living on the edge of the extremes are more interested in being right than anything else.
So many relationships have been destroyed by the need to prove one’s self “right” instead of loving.
I read a book.
I listened to a podcast.
I belong to this camp, and we are right.
I belong to this camp, and we are right.
Go down the road of politics for a minute, and tell me where there is any agreement anywhere, and the election has been over for a full year.
But we’ve still decided we’ve got to teach other why we are right and they are wrong.
Paul said, “live in harmony”.
Don’t be proud.
That need to be proud lives itself out in our never being wrong, always being right, proving that the “other” is wrong and we know why.
And it’s exacerbated by vaccines and covid and boosters and all that.
And it plays itself out in our families and our lives and our churches and every relationship.
And how do most of us deal with that?
Accusation.
Let someone get sick and not show up at work on the busiest shopping day of the year.
The person who is sick says, “You should understand.
I don’t want to spread my germs.”
But for the person who is left to cover for 2 jobs now, they will think, “They took a day off so they could be with their family and friends while I am here hustiling.”
Right?
You’ve seen it.
You see, in our minds, we make an accusation about that other person.
We fill in a gap with an accusation instead of responding as Paul said, “in harmony”.
And Satan loves our accusations, because he is the great accuser, and when we accuse he knows....
friends become angry with each other.
marriages begin to break apart.
churches divide in to factions.
That’s why Paul says in Ephesians 4.2
Bear with each other in love.
Jesus didn’t say they would know we are Christians by our correctness… or our rightness.
He said they would know that we are Christians by our love.
So instead of letting our pride force us to always be right we let Jesus change us to always be loving and forgiving.
Even when we are right, if we are.
And even when we are wrong, when we are.
Life is too short and our calling too great to be offended by stupid petty stuff.
The scriptures say “life is a mist.”
It’s short.
Don’t live in a constant state of being offended.
Overlook the offenses .
and live in love.
Imagine if Jesus was constantly offended.... would the mission be carried out?
If we live in a constant state of being offended, we will never complete our mission.
It’s a distraction to be offended because our pride requires us to prove ourselves right and be angry with someone else rather than just live into the love that Christ calls us to live into.
Lookat Proverbs 19:11
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