Big Thought: God’s design for love is to oneness through when there is conflict.
1. Our creates conflict.
a. Doesn’t the other.
1 Peter 3:7a (ESV) – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman…
b. Not .
c. the other.
d. Not wanting to be .
John 15:13 (ESV) – Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
e. Thinking .
Philippians 2:3-4 (ESV) – Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
f. .
1 Corinthians 13:4 (ESV) – Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
g. before resolution.
2. Handle conflict in a manner.
a. the other.
Romans 12:14 (ESV) – Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
b. of sins.
2 Corinthians 7:10a (ESV) – For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret…
c. Speak of the other.
Ephesians 4:29 (ESV) – Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
d. Guard your .
Psalms 119:9 (ESV) – How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
3. Repenting from our with Jesus.
a. Jesus .
John 15:16 (ESV) – You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give it to you.
b. Remember Jesus’ .
c. Remember Jesus’ .
Psalms 119:11 (ESV) – I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
d. Remember the of oneness.