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When Brother Lewis told me that my day for preaching on our one another was going to be November 30th, I was a little excited because it's the day after Thanksgiving, Sunday after Thanksgiving, giving a higher probability for other familial obligations for everybody, giving me a lower turnout with which to fall flat on my face. So for those of you that are here, thank you. I appreciate that.
But one another that I'm going to speak on today is consideration and respect. The verses I've selected to go with this is Philippians 2, 3 through 4. Philippians 2, 4. Philippians 2, 4. be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind, esteeming others better than yourself. Did I mix those up? I think I did. I did mess those up, I apologize about that. And then Romans 12.10, which reads, be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love in honor of preferring one another.
There are several different ways that we can consider one another, and I want to take a couple practical applications that we can perhaps focus on for this afternoon. One of the things that we can consider about one another is the different personality traits that each of us have. There is not a single one of us here that's exactly the same as the other one. Nobody's identical twins, and I don't even think identical twins come entirely exactly the same. With everybody being completely different, I firmly believe that there is no individual personality trait that is inherently sinful in and of itself. There are traits that may have proclivities to certain sins, but they are not sinful in and of themselves. And if there is no personality trait that is sinful, then if there's no sinful personality traits, then we are we have to be respectful to a certain degree of these individual traits. Whereas someone who is obstinate, as annoying as a person can be who is obstinate, that obstinance can be used for the glory of God if they are obstinate and resistant to the ways of the world. In that same fashion, you can be obstinate and resistant to God's will and kick against the pricks of the word of God in our lives.
Another thing we should consider is the different experiences that individuals have in and of themselves. We come to this body, believers, with a lot of past trauma and a lot of past shame and a lot of past sins. And these are all things that we as Christians can consider and ensure that we are not stepping on the toes, that we're not saying things, that we're forming our words in specific ways so that we are not harming other people. We are not intentionally trying to drive a wedge. The relationships that we form within this church are so important, so prevalent for us, because this is the group of people that we have committed to serve together with. We've committed to love each other. When things get hard for one of us, they get hard for all of us. And that is, it's important for us to ensure that we are committing to each other to serve one another and that we're not stepping on each other's toes as we form our words.
Another consideration is to consider the agreements that we make one with another. There are various people that own their own businesses here, and there's even people that have made business transactions between one another within the church. These are all fine in and of themselves, but when we as Christians, or as we as humans, always tend to do in situations like this, we try to put ourselves first. We try to put ourselves to be the beneficiary, or to put another person down. or gain over somebody else. And that is where the sin comes in in our lives is when we try to win something over on somebody else. There's nothing wrong with having these business transactions, and for one person to gain, that is fine. But when we are not seeking to honor those agreements to the letter, and then also preferring that other person in the agreement as we have this transaction with each other, it can potentially cause a wedge, not just between you and that person, but between other people from the church too.
Because people will communicate with each other, and they will start to form sides. And as people form sides over time, they will just simply divide the church through time. Unless we are intentional about forming these relationships and about building these agreements with each other, that we're going to prefer one another and that we're going to seek to honor one another in these agreements.
We also need to consider the needs of others. This is something I think this church does a great job of. If there's a need that's been outspoken that we have the ability to meet, we always find a way to do it. There's no divisions about this. I think that we've always done a great job of that. But we should be considering the needs of others. We should look every man on the needs of others and not just on their own needs.
As I said earlier, this body is, this body of believers is who we have committed to share our joys with, to share our trials with, and we share our needs with each other too. And if we are communicating and sharing and working with each other as we ought to, then our needs will be readily available and readily evident to everybody.
Whenever we are meeting the needs of others, it is usually self-sacrificing. We're giving of ourselves and cutting off of ourselves to give to somebody else. This self-sacrificing is reflective of what Christ did for us on the cross, and it is imperative that we show that to one another.
Earlier today, Brother Lewis was going through talking about the suffering of Christ and the different ways that he was afflicted. And when we think about Christ being the Son of God and God incarnate and how high of a station that is and how much power and authority he had and his willingness to subject himself to that pain for us, it's a pretty powerful picture. It's a pretty powerful thought.
And the fact that our own pride and our own sin will cause us to not sacrifice ourselves for other people within the church, it's convicting for me, at least, to think about that and to see that in my own life. And as we are meeting the needs of others, it puts us in a position to have empathy for these other believers and for their position.
As we consider and as we understand the personality traits of other people and the experiences they have, we can feel and sense what they feel in that position. We should be. We should be feeling what other people are feeling. We should be communing with one another, with their needs and with their pains.
And it requires us, most importantly, if we're going to know each other, if we're going to understand each other and understand the pain that each one's going through, it requires us to know each other well enough. We have to communicate. We have to ask questions. We have to have fellowship one with another. And it is very easy for us to isolate ourselves in certain pockets of the church, in certain little cliques that we make. But if we are truly seeking to serve one another, we will. we will be delving into the lives of other people to try to learn more about them so that we can serve them better. Because it's not about us, it's about the body of Christ and serving the body of Christ.
And then another thing we can do is we can consider consider the conversations that we have. It is a very natural thing, I know for at least myself, when we have conversations, to have more statements for the other person in questions. And when we have more statements and questions, we're trying to share of ourselves and of our own wisdom and our own knowledge as opposed to trying to learn more about the other person. If you've ever been in a conversation with somebody who does nothing but talk about themselves and try to show off how smart they are, it can be very, very annoying, which means you've probably had a conversation with me once or twice.
But our intent should be to learn more about the other people in Christ that we have been committed to serving with. And that means that we should be seeking to ask more questions and learn more about the other people and learn what's going on in their lives so that we can share one with another and that we can serve one another better.
This ended up being way shorter than I thought it was going to be. And I apologize for that. Does anybody have anything else on their heart at this time?
Consider And Respect One Another
| Sermon ID | 121251533175623 |
| Duration | 09:35 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - PM |
| Bible Text | Philippians 2:4; Romans 12:10 |
| Language | English |
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