Family Relationships

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Family Relationships

• Marriage changes relationships. (Genesis 224)
• Retain love and memories of home, but focus on
  new home and new duties.
• Focus on matenot old relationships.
• Parents, grandparents, and others retain love and
  memories but recognize relationship changes.

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Family Relationships

• Children change relationships. (Psalm
  1273)
• Treat each child as a treasure give time,
  attention, discipline, and affection.
  (Ephesians 64)
• Make spiritual training the 1 priority.
  (Genesis 1819)
• Embrace parental duty as a gift, not a burden
  sacrificing for children enhances character.

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Family Relationships

• Parents are no longer children.
• Were not reliving our childhood were helping
  them live theirs (find talents and interests,
  etc.).
• Parents cannot train children if they behave like
  the children (selfish, bad-tempered, impatient,
  pouty, etc.)
• Do not reverse roles lead and serve.

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Family Relationships

• Address failures in family life. (Proverbs
  2813)
• Admit failures, do not ignore or excuse. God and
  family will see honesty or hypocrisy.
• Apologize ask for forgiveness.
• Change conduct repair relationships.
• You cannot change the past move forward.

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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• God is ready and willing to forgive all who ask.
  He has promise to forgive.

Come now, and let us reason together," Says the
LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They
shall be as white as snow Though they are red
like crimson, They shall be as wool.
Isaiah 118
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Christ offers forgiveness.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke
upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your
souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is
light.
Matthew 1128-30
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• New birth for sinners.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God.
John 33
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• New birth for sinners.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved
but he who does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 1616
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• God forgives his children who fall back into sin.

Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and
pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may
be forgiven you.
Acts 822
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Accept Gods gracious forgiveness.
• Do not dwell on past sins release them.
• forgetting those things which are behind and
  reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
  I press toward the goal for the prize of the
  upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
  (Philippians 313,14)

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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Do not return to past sins!
• Dont be deceived!
• Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor
  thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
  kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But
  you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you
  were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and
  by the Spirit of our God.
  (1 Corinthians 69-11)

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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• A saint in sin is LOST!

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness
and bound by iniquity. Then Simon answered and
said, "Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the
things which you have spoken may come upon me.
Acts 823,24
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Sin hardens the conscience!

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief in departing from the
living God but exhort one another daily, while
it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 312,13
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Face consequences of past sins by
  trusting and believing in God!
• David had painful memories, but he focused on
  Gods mercy and pardon.
• He had committed adultery and murder. His son
  died, his family relationships were devastated,
  and the nations confidence was shaken (2 Samuel
  11,12)

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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Our Lords Loving Mercy

The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to
anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always
strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger
forever. He has not dealt with us according to
our sins, Nor punished us according to our
iniquities.
Psalm 1038-11
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Our Lords Loving Mercy

For as the heavens are high above the earth, So
great is His mercy toward those who fear Him As
far as the east is from the west, So far has He
removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 10311,12
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Our Lords Loving Mercy

As a father pities his children, So the LORD
pities those who fear Him. For He knows our
frame He remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 10313,14
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Paul had painful memories, but he focused on
  Gods mercy and pardon.
• He had been an accomplice in Stephens murder and
  imprisoned and scattered saints.
• This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
  acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world
  to save sinners, of whom I am chief. However, for
  this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first
  Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a
  pattern to those who are going to believe on Him
  for everlasting life.(1 Timothy 115,16)

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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged

Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar,
and there remember that your brother has
something against you, leave your gift there
before the altar, and go your way. First be
reconciled to your brother, and then come and
offer your gift.
Matthew 523,24
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Resist Satan if memories haunt and temptations
  return

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary
the devil walks about like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast
in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings
are experienced by your brotherhood in the
world.
1 Peter 58,9
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Seeking and Offering Forgiveness

• Seek reconciliation with people who have wronged
  you.
• Be ready to forgive as God forgave you.
• Do what you can, then put it to rest.
• Moreover if your brother sins against you, go
  and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
  If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
  (Matthew 1815)

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Putting the Past in the Past

• Learn to leave past sins IN THE PAST.
• On lifes journey, we CANNOT return to the past.
  Trust God for the present and the future
• Its possible to HINDER what you can do in the
  PRESENT by dwelling too much on the past!