Choose Your Relationships Carefully
Sermon Series: “New Year, New Habits”
January 24, 2021
Pastor Phil Chorlian
Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. —Romans 12:2 (MSG)
I. Habit #2: Choose your
The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. —Proverbs 12:26
II. Four steps towards
A.
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. —I Peter 4:7-8
B.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. —Romans 12:17-18
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. —Colossians 3:13
C.
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. —Proverbs 13:20
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” —I Corinthians 15:33
D.
…not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. —Hebrews 10:25
Three relationships we
1 - Develop my relationship with
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household. —Ephesians 2:19
2 - Develop my relationships with
All the believers met together constantly and shared everything with each other. —Acts 2:44 (TLB)
3 - Develop my relationship with
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. —Jeremiah 29:13