Binoculars Verses Mirrors Bearing One Another and Examining
Binoculars Verses Mirrors Bearing One Another and Examining Ourselves (Galatians 6: 1 -4)
Bearing One Another “To Carry, To Lift Up” • Love demands we correct (Gal. 6: 1, Pro 27: 5 -6)
“ Pr 27: 5 -6 Open rebuke is better Than love carefully concealed. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Bearing One Another “To Carry, To Lift Up” • Love demands we correct (Gal. 6: 1, Pro 27: 5 -6) • So, how should we do it? üLowliness, gentle, longsuffering (Eph. 4: 1 -2) üGracious to the hearers (not speaker) (Eph. 4: 29 -32) üBears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things (1 Cor. 13: 4 -7)
Examining Ourselves “Test, Prove, Scrutinize” Scrutinize • Mirrors reveal all (Gal. 6: 4, James 1: 21 -26) üRemove the filth (James 1: 21, Col. 3: 5 -9) üHear without doing we DECEIVE ourselves and our religion is WORTHLESS, USELESS (HOT AIR) (v. 2226)
Christianity is not an educational pursuit but a pursuit to educate ourselves to be transformed to the likeness of Christ. (Rom. 12; James 1: 21 -26) “ When was the last time you read something in Scripture and set out to make a change in your life to reflect what you learned? (2 Tim. 2: 15; James 1)
Examining Ourselves “Test, Prove, Scrutinize” Scrutinize • Mirrors reveal all (James 1: 21 -26) üRemove the filth (James 1: 21, Col. 3: 5 -9) üHear without doing we DECEIVE ourselves and our religion is WORTHLESS, USELESS (HOT AIR) (v. 2226) üIt will transform our speech (v. 26) • Pure and undefiled religion is … üVisit orphans and widows (helpless) in their troubles (v. 27) üKeep oneself unspotted from the world (v. 27)
Binoculars Verses Mirrors Bearing One Another and Examining Ourselves (Galatians 6: 1 -4)
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