EVERYBODY FIGHTS
NOT EVERYBODY FIGHTS WELL
HOW DO WE FIGHT WELL?
Song of Solomon 5:2–5 (ESV) – She I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.” I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them? My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me. I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
Matthew 7:5 (ESV) – …first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Song of Solomon 5:4–6 (ESV) – My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me. I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
- Speak well of the other person.
Matthew 5:43–44 (ESV) – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE: WHEN WE FIGHT WITH JESUS