A Healthy Me: Relational Health
Sunday, February 9, 2025
I Peter 3:8-9 (NIV)
Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
Great relationship advice… from someone who struggled to do relationship well.
- Relationships are VITAL
Genesis 2:18 (NIV)
“It is not good for man to be alone.”
Psalm 68:5-6 (NIV)
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…”
I Corinthians 12 (NIV)
Now the body is not made up of one part but of many… in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
- Relationships are COMPLICATED
Philippians 2:12-13 (NIV)
…my dear friends, as you have always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
work out your salvation – it’s NOT for the securing of your salvation…
The Spirit of God is “worked” into us at salvation… supernaturally by Jesus Christ!
Growing in our salvation, to a large degree, is determined by us… our will and our actions
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV)
And we are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory…
I Peter 3:8-9 (NIV)
Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- Healthy Relationships are FORGIVING
Matthew 18:21-22 (NIV)
Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times [seventy times seven].”
Matthew 6:14-15 (NIV)
“If you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” - Jesus
- Healthy Relationships are REDEEMING
What were the first words Jesus said to Peter upon meeting him… “Follow me”.
John 21:18-19 (NIV)
“I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. The he said to him, “Follow me!”