One Another - Week 3
Dave Stephens
Part of One Another
March 6, 2022

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Week 3

March 6th
Dave Stephens

Text: Colossians 3:12–17

You were created for relationship. Designed from the very beginning.

Application Point: God has gifted you with a unique set of qualities, talents, and spiritual gifts. You are called to teach others what you know and admonish them toward holiness.

When we have relationship with God, we also have fellowship with all who have
been adopted into His family.

1 John 1:7 explains, “If we walk in the Light as He is in the Light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all
sin.”
We are in this together…

In other words, relationship with

and relationship with go hand-in-hand.

Paul encourages the church to “put on” (v. 12) various virtues connected to the Spirit’s power in our lives: “kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,” forgiveness (vv. 12–13) and “above all … love” (v. 14).

These virtues are not just about Christian

but how to act and live in Christian .

TEACH

In other words, every member of the body of Christ is uniquely gifted and positioned to teach others about virtue, creation, and Christ.

If we take this passage seriously, then we must hold two attitudes intension: the attitude of a teacher and the attitude of a learner. On the former, many people don’t feel comfortable getting behind a pulpit and preaching. And that’s okay!

We must retain a spirit of

to learn from those around us.

ADMONISH

Meaning: “to instruct, exhort, warn, or rebuke.” Literally: to

someone in their .

In other words, an admonition may be

and it may also be .

So, how do we do this? How can we do this in a way that pleases God?

It needs to be clearly stated: The entire

of admonition is surrounded and supported by .

Really important: If you’re bringing correction, and you do not do it in love, you aren’t operating according to scripture.
-You will be like a clanging symbol in the ear of the hearer.

There are two questions to consider about love and its relationship with admonition.

First, do we love people enough to instruct them, warn them, and if necessary gently rebuke them?

The second question is this, “In our admonition are we showing love?”
Yes, we are to be loving, but our love must not be without truth.

On the flip side of that, the truth should not be without love.
Ephesians 4:15 exhorts us to “speak the truth in love.”

It has been well stated that love without truth is hypocrisy and truth without love is brutality.

So, when there is something on your heart that needs to be addressed, you need to stop and examine, “Am I being

?

-After all, “Love covers a multitude of sins,” 1 Peter 4:8b.

To the church at Corinth Paul said (1 Cor. 4:14), “I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
When a father admonishes his child, it is not because he hates him but because he loves him.

Love should be the framework for every admonition, thus reflecting the Savior and showing respect for the one being corrected.

In Colossians 3 …I want you to see how it starts… “let the peace of Christ rule in your heart.”

James 5:19-20 exhorts us, “My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.”