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Showing Respect - Part 2 - Week 2
Loving Life While Respecting Others
I Peter 3:8-11
How can we love life AND respect others? Its not easy. Peter gives us three thoughts in this passage. Be Encouragers, Be Blessings, and Be Christians.
Loving Life While Respecting Others
I Peter 3:8-11
How can we love life AND respect others? Its not easy. Peter gives us three thoughts in this passage. Be Encouragers, Be Blessings, and Be Christians.
- (1 Peter 3:10) For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
- (1 Peter 3:8) Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
A. Be of One Mind = harmonious thinking- 1. To be in one accord and not in discord
2. If we are going to be encouragers then we must be thinking straight.
3. The O.T. prophet Amos asked the question, "Can two walk together except they be agreed?" - NO!
4. Who will encourage you in your walk with God?
5. Certainly not the lost people around us…and not the marginal Christians we know.
6. The only ones that will encourage us in our walk with God are those who are on the same road heading in the same direction!
7. That is why we so desperately need our local church fellowship!
- 1. Not pity toward others, but being of the same heart.
2. Paul admonished us to weep with those who weep and to rejoice with those who rejoice.
3. Compassion is putting ourselves in the other's place and then acting upon how we would like to be treated.
4. Compassion moves us to action.- (Mark 6:34) And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. [3] 5. If are to be encouragers, we must show compassion!
- 1. We are family aren't we?
2. There is a bond there that covers a multitude of sins.
3. Where would I be without you? (Family, friends, etc.)
4. To be an encourager, I must love the brethren.- (1 John 3:14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
- 1. Every so often I meet people who are just jerks!
2. But that doesn't give me the right to treat them like a jerk!
3. Once again Paul admonishes us to be tenderhearted toward others.- (Ephesians 4:32) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
- 1. To be in one accord and not in discord
- (1 Peter 3:9) Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
A. Not rendering evil for evil and railing for railing.
B. Jesus Christ is our great example in this.- (Matthew 27:12) And when He was accused of the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing.
- 1. Let God take care of this area.
2. Vengeance is mine saith the Lord- (Romans 12:19) Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. [5]
- 1. A blessing = speaking good things
2. Words that will edify the hearer.- (Ephesians 4:29) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
(James 3:10) Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
4. To love life we must be a Christian not just in word, but in deed!
- (Colossians 3:17) And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
- (Ephesians 4:29) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
- (1 Peter 3:10-11) For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
A. Look (verb) like a Christian - See good days- 1. Good days and bad days are a matter of perception and perspective aren't they.
2. We have so much to look forward to…let's see good days ahead!
- 1. Have you ever talked to someone who 'claimed' to be a Christian. Throughout the conversation they may catch themselves before saying something that they shouldn't? Do YOU have to look around to see who is nearby before YOU speak?
- (James 5:12) But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
- a. Warns of lying and deceit
b. Warns of gossips, talebearers, and busybodies
c. Have you ever sat in a restaurant and overheard the conversation of another?
d. Guess what, people do that with us all the time.
e. What is being heard, when we think no one else is listening?
f. We need to talk like a Christian!
- 1. Following His resurrection, Jesus confronted Peter on the shore. Remember what He asked him?
Do you love me? Then feed my sheep.
Jesus was reminding him of what He had said earlier on.- (John 14:15) If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- 1. Good days and bad days are a matter of perception and perspective aren't they.
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