Mike Crump - Assisting Pastor's teaching references for 05/09/2013

Song of Solomon 7 - Reawakening Love

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 6:13)

Stay away from the blame game. We all can learn to communicate, respond and love better.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 6:13)

It is impossible to live a life of continual, active forgiveness without a relationship with Christ.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 6:13)

We forgive others when they sin against us because Christ forgave us of all our sins.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 6:13)

God does not love you because of what you can offer Him. He loves you because He is love.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 6:13)

You shouldn't love your spouse because of what they can offer you or how they make you feel. You should love your spouse because you have been loved by God and called to a covenant relationship with your spouse.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 7:10)

Men & women alike desire to be desired. Marriage is the perfect place for those desires to be expressed and experienced.

Luke 17:3-4 NKJV

3 Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.  4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."

Luke 17:5 NKJV

And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."

Mark 11:25-26 NKJV

25 "And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.  26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses."

Eph 1:7 NKJV

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

Col 2:13 NKJV

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

Luke 6:37 NKJV

"Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

Matt 18:21-22 NKJV

hen Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"  22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

Rom 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Eph 1:4 NLT

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

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