Cleaning Up Our Mess
March 21st - 24th
John Elmer
Part of Friendships

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24

“CLEANING UP OUR MESS”

1) We all mess up in relationships and experience

.

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8

The Lord gave us mind and conscience; we cannot hide from ourselves.
Proverbs 20:27 (Good News Translation)

My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear … I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
Psalm 38:4, 6

2) Ask for forgiveness from the

that you’ve hurt.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
James 5:16

Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 5:23-24

3) If you can, make it

.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8

4) Build

into your life.

First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
Acts 26:20

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