2 credithours

SUBMISSION, 1-7

COMPLETION, 8-10

CONVERSATION, 11-14

SESSION 12

Thesis:

• In view of God’s mercy you have a motivation to grow to maturity.

BE BOB THE BUILDER IN RELATIONSHIPS Romans 12 Romans 13 Romans 14 What Relationship to God Yields What Results in Society Relationship to Each Other Serve One Another Submit to Authority Support the Anemic Conformity Authority Liberty

DEFINITION:

• Dissimulation is pretending to have care for other members of the body when that is not your real intent.

Rule #1.

• Love in the body of Christ has to be genuine and not hypocritical.

Point 10.

• The love is already in you; your job is to simply let it flow without diverting its course, Rom 5:5.

Point 11.

• The determination of love is acting in someone else's best interest to get them into the will of God.

Rule #2

• If I don't love you the right way I let you drag me into your sin drama.

Point 12.

• God may be longsuffering with us, but do not misread that as tolerance of evil.

Rule #3.

• Be devoted to each other as you would be to a natural family member.

Rule #4.

• Defer to the other person and lead the way for others.

HOW DO YOU INCREASE YOUR LOVE QUOTIENT?

• When you respond and react to your brother or sister in Christ the same way you would respond or react to God.

Rule #5.

• Don't be tardy, be diligent.

Rule #5.

• Don't be tardy, be diligent.

Rule #6.

• Be on fire inside.

Point 13.

• The development of your walk in the Spirit will produce fire inside.

Rule #7.

• Use prayer to buttress your perspective and bestow endurance.

DEFINITION:

• The word instant means pressing, urgent, in earnest.

Rule #8.

• Generosity is part of practicing righteousness.

Rule #8.

• Generosity is part of practicing righteousness.

Rule #9.

• The tool you use to get to know people better is hospitality.

Rule #10.

• Speak well of those who push you.

Rule #11.

• Make your emotions match what God is doing in your brother's life when you are with your brother.

Rule #11.

• Make your emotions match what God is doing in your brother's life when you are with your brother.

Point 14.

• Rejoicing will keep you from jealousy.

Rule #12.

• View others like you want them to view you.

Rule #12.

• View others like you want them to view you.

Rule #13.

• Don't pay attention to lofty people, but get carried away with the humble, Ps 131:1.

Rule #14.

• Don't spend too much time thinking about your strong points.

Rule #15.

• Don't get even.

Rule #15.

• Don't get even.

Rule #16.

• Consider in advance what others will see as fair, not just the technicality.

Rule #17.

• Be a peacemaker in as far as it

depends on you.

Point 15.

• This is one of those commandments where your obedience is sometimes determined by your circumstances, because sometimes the things necessary to obey this command are out of your control.

Point 16.

• You are not held hostage by somebody else's disobedience.

RULE #18.• Move out of the way so wrath can

pass you by and so you won't take-out your own revenge.

RULE #18.• Move out of the way so wrath can

pass you by and so you won't take-out your own revenge.

Point 17.• The only person who ever has a

right to be angry is God, so whenever you get angry apart from his command you have usurped the authority of God.

Point 18.

• If you take out your own wrath, then you have "taken out" God's wrath.

RULE #19.

• Conquer wickedness with the tool of right actions.

Chapter 13

The HomeGen 2:18-25

Government

Gen 9:1-7

The ChurchMatt 18

Point 1.

• The “powers that be” all work God's will in this world, whether they ever know it or not.

Why the Saint Must Submit to the State

• For the sake of punishment, 1-4• For the sake of conscience, 5-7• For the sake of love, 8-10• For the sake of Christ, 11-14

Point 2.

• God establishes human government because sinners have to have structure, and that structure comes from a controlling legal authority, and we must submit to that authority to have accountability.

Point 3.

• Do not use submission to authority as an excuse for covering up sin if God has put it in your power to expose the sin.

Point 4.

• Satan has permissive power from God;

rulers have directive power, whether from the Devil or from God.

Point 5.

• God never ordained structure in order to create abuse, but to provide accountability.

Point 6.

• Separation of church and state means neither should make laws for the other.

Point 7.

• Rom 13:8 is not a prohibition against borrowing; it is an exhortation to make your payments on time.

Point 8.

• When we practice love, there’s no other need for laws.

In Light of the Lord’s Return

• Wake up! 11, 1 Thes 5:1-11; Matt 25:1-13

• Clean up! 12, 1 John 2:28-3:3• Grow up! 14, Eph 4:24; Col 3:10-14

Shining the Light through the Night

1. Separation, Eph 5:11

2. Information, 2 Cor 6:7

3. Position, Eph 6:13

4. Illumination, Matt 13:43

Defn.:

• Wantonness and jealousy are desires and attitudes; chambering and strife are the resulting actions from those desires.

Point 9.

• The armor of light is provided in order to empower you against what is prohibited.

How to Match Standing and State

1. Be created in righteousness (saved), Eph 4:24

2. Renew your mind with knowledge (grow), Col 3:10

Point 10.

• We have a positional righteousness called justification, but we live to produce a practical righteousness called sanctification, on the way to a perfected righteousness in glorification.

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