Sunday Re Cap (5th August 2007)

Breaking the Power of The Past IV
by Ps Samuel Hari

Key Scriptures:
Exo 20:3-6 ; Mar 3:33-35

Jesus gave us a pattern of breaking away from our old genealogy and connecting ourselves to the new!

Mar 12:30-31 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment. (31) And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

1Jn 3:18 Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity). Amp

1Jn 3:18 Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions. 19 It is by our actions that we know we are living in the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before the Lord,NLT

Now that we understand that one of the key ways we break the power of the past is to identify with our new family, what do we do to maintain and strengthen these covenant bonds? Obviously, we are a new family and it doesn’t happen automatically.

What are the key elements?

1. Fellowship 1 John 1:7

2. Endeavoring

• Eph 4:3 (Make every effort, always keep yourselves). Bearing with one another in love. Love covers a multitude of sins.
• 1Pe 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
• 1 Pet 4:8 Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay. 10 God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God's generosity can flow through you.
  

3. Stir up the gifts, provoke the love.

• Heb 10:24 Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.
  

4. Do forsake the gathering together.

• Heb 10:25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.
  

5. Esteeming one another. Phil 2:3