A Rewarding Relationship comes with Righteous Restrictions
February 5th, 2024
A Rewarding Relationship comes with Righteous Restrictions
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies. Psalms
119:79
From our genesis God has created us to connect with others. The characteristics of a Christ
centered camaraderie and communion (relationships) is hopeless without the hands that shaped the heavens and directed the Holy Spirt to hovered over the surface of the waters during creation. Too often we have the proclivity to pursue and participate in relationships with one or more individuals with independent hands as opposed to inviting the infinite hands of God.
Largely life issues are linked to relationships. None of us are exempted from the everyday engagements of getting along with people and embracing them in love as well as directly addressing them in truth. The truth is we live in a lost world where sin and evil are present and purposely persistent. And we are willing participants. Consequently, the world is ruined by
rebellion and sin and its abject outcomes.
The vices and the values of the world keeps a vast vault of victims! And Satan superfluously serves subjection and seeks to sentence souls to eternal separation from God.
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Ephesians 2:2-3 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others.
The scriptures are emphatically lucid that we are lost and replete with rebellion and the human
condition is a substantial reprobated reservoir that needs redemption. The only begotten son of
God bathed us in his blood to make us clean and bought us with his blood to make us free.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the
blood of Christ.
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the
dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our
sins in his own blood,
Hence, how can we hope to have a heaven-filled (spirit-filled) relationships that bless as opposed to curses, beautifully binds, and builds versus disastrously destroy, conceived and
centered in Christ and not conceived in carnality and directed by the devil when you don’t have
a real relationship with the God of Love. Rewarding relationships starts with the redeemer who lives and will return.
I pray that you would strongly consider choosing the life, love and liberty that the Lord Jesus Christ abundantly gives. Join me next time as we consider the necessity of restrictions in real and rich relationships.
Not a sermon just some thoughts