Wednesday Night December 5, 2012
keywords: communication, marriage, emotion, heart, wrath, heaven, despise, hate, love,
anger, malice, commitment, vow
scriptures: Proverbs 20; Matthew 5; Colossians 3, Deuteronomy 23, Ecclesiastes 5
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Proverbs 20:20-22
Verse 22- It does not matter who started it. It is matter of how you deal with things. It is
not about communication in marriages but it is about whether you are being what you are
supposed to be. It is about emotions- when a person gets upset then the real person comes
out. If your heart is not changed then your soul is not changed. Now we have the mind of
Christ so how we see things should be different. God is not looking for wrath but is looking
for solution and resolution.
Matthew 5:22-23 Some people who are so called Christians have emotions that are not
consistent with the bible. You shouldn’t accept those feelings as o.k. God wants to see if you
will love which goes far beyond like. Some people speak horribly and negatively about other
people for no real reason. You are not on your way to heaven if you have hatred in your
heart for other people in Christ.
Matthew 5:43-48 Some people will not get to this because they can’t get over their
emotions. When is the last time that you loved your enemies? Some people have trouble
loving people that they don’t like. Do good to them that hate. Who do you do good to that
hates you? How are you going to heaven if you can’t even love people that you don’t care
that much about? Some people don’t even love people that are Christian. God gives you a
game plan on how to deal with people that don’t like you.
You can’t be selective of who you will love and be good to. Verse 44- You are not trying to
pray for those that despitefully use or persecute but you are trying to get them back. You can
be a great son but have a horrible mother or a great wife but have a horrible husband. As a
Christian you have the same emotions as others but you choose to respond differently- you
have to respond in loving way regardless. God wants to see what you will do when you are
mad, upset or irritated. If you want people to know that you are mad then that is not God’s
goal for your life.
Colossians 3:1-15
It is hard to get people to seek the things of God.
Verse 8- you need to stop being so angry. If God is so good then why are you so angry as a
person. Malice- some people argue to hurt and just to cause harm. Malice is the intent of
the heart to hurt someone. You can pretend that you are speaking the truth but you can say
it with malice. Filthy communication out of your mouth- when some people get mad then
they start cussing. Verse 12- you should be a loving, compassionate soul. Verse 13- you
can’t to be willing to forgive people and bear with people. If you can’t forgive others who
you have a quarrel against then you are not a child of God.
Proverbs 20:23-25- Verse 23- you have to be fair and right. Verse 24- A lot of people think
that their life is not their own. A lot are people are trying to think about what they really
want. It is not your life is not about you and what you really want. As a Christian, you are
not trying to find out what makes me happy. It is about what is really, really right for you.
Some people will sacrifice God and everything else to get what they really, really want. How
many of you have not done something that is right? Verse 25- Some people make a
commitment but then backtrack and begin to doubt God. God doesn’t want you to make a
commitment and then for you to pull it back.
Deuteronomy 23:21-23 You can’t just back off a commitment to the Lord. It will be sin unto
you. Be what you say you will be.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-6 Be careful what you say when you go into the house of God.