Giving to Other Believers

God wants to make it clear that your relationship will relationship is Dr. Tony Evans says that's why church needs to be more than just a social gathering real people on meeting real things.

This is the alternative Dr. Tony-author, speaker, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the alternative large small Hyderabad everyone of us as part of the family with Dr. Evans says Christians are also a part of a second family.

Today he explains how we should invest in those relationships. Let's turn to Romans chapter 12 as he begins when family relationships to be foster instruction, what he created to be a community Christianity.

He wants to charge the BA community intensity where real people in real ships on meeting real needs in a real way and seen the cardboard figures that are carved out a hole in the middle to take a picture so Amanda wants to look musclebound will put the picture of a muscular figure or lighting wants to look like a beauty queen will put her head in the picture of a bathing beauty should be taken take a genius to observe look that looks and the way the body is a problem spiritually. Jesus is the way the body looks and the way they handle the look like they belong look like some part of the reason for that is that many people church becomes their visit for the week writing the church at Rome is calling them to the big gear first… Push that back to you once you push it out to others and that's why he begins in verse nine let love be without hypocrisy up or what is evil. Cling to what is good that we would receive love in the Bible is righteously pursuing the well-being of another and righteously pursuing the well-being of another. Love always takes you out of yourself because you are a loving object whenever that object is a person place or thing is passionately and righteously pursuing the well-being of another.

But what I want to focus on. It is in love with the mask you said you will not be hypocritical. Don't be a hypocrite hypocrite was used in the Greek world mask you see them in those movies where they would take a mask and put over there based on the plan, that same switch mask and then he would put on another master plan of the character he may play three characters in a place he would go over and get the third mask and put in front of his plate and those people will call hypocrites.

In other words, somebody wearing a mask in order to be in some of the best actresses and actors you know in church because they come with a mask, making it it comes out and I learns how you doing fine even when five.

Is not true why people have to put on the mask is they are afraid what will happen if they unmask how they will be looking you criticize and critique and he says he is, without hypocrisy, no mask what is evil, clinging to what is good, so he gives the two boundaries of love. Love doesn't skip doubly ignore good calls what's wrong wrong right right because love doesn't negate the truth he says now community in the body of Christ that ought to be an environment where you can be love without wearing them without being a hypocrite without being where you don't have to put on a performance for some time that the when you have to you have to come up with all Christianity because it is an environment for truth telling. What is important, as we'll see as we go through this. It is important to first John chapter 4 verses 612 and following, because God determines what additional business. Much of what he's going to do to whip them for you. How you relating to with and for others again. Mrs. not what God decides to do to with two M4 you gravitated on what you do with two others one shoe to camouflage with him and he wants you to be take me to be authentic with others on the verse 10 be devoted to one here we have to one another. The one verse in brotherly love that word brotherly love deals with family love like Philadelphia. It deals with the log in the context of a family brotherly love reference to one another one another again in the words about it is the word that means committed. This is not a word of visual relationships. There was no fraud in the Bible that the church would be a place of actuality, I casually drive up. I casually walked in. I can usually sit down. I casually listen usually leave no no you're gathering is to be a place of devoted light falls within the family. Brotherly love the city of brotherly love. That's where the word comes from. It deals with family kind of relationship folklore living together in the same spiritual house, which is by the Bible calls the church the family of God.

He wants to be a place where people committed to one another devoted to one another benefit to one another that we are living in a very selfish world we live in a world even in the Christian world words about me myself.

You hear it all the time. I say it all the times people come to church to get their blessing. Many people have you heard Matt coming in the church came a child sedated about how I could be a blessing you should usually come to get their blessing. The reason why God called you into community is that you belong to something bigger than your Soloway, me, myself, and then just you you think when teenagers want their own room and they want their own space.

They will come out when they will come out that they won't date in painful they won't rob the refrigerator and when I asked for gas money.

They want to use keys they want something for them. Other than that, and I will shut my door and prefer that you become self-sufficient for their own TV you know you know not to make themselves and in the house of the family pretend nobody God wants to make it inextricably clear that your relationship to him close your relationship to others. Your relationship with him was the big gift of God present in your relationship to him vertically concludes your relationship to others, so God will look at what he does with you and for you, and juxtaposition to what you do want to enthrone the benefit of others and if there is nothing that galls you. You may be limiting what comes to me say that again if God can get anything you you may just have limited the you ask him to do for you because you are always always always blessed to be a blessing. And that's why that's already one another Scripture over and over and over and over again.

He says it is a family issue you want to be on the big endeavor not only to yourself not only to benefit others but one another's giving preference to someone else. I want you to be coaching opportunities to impact somebody outside you know would you go through all that trouble when you got all the stuff you know like when you got all the difficulty why would you go looking for opportunities to impact somebody outside of you because God pays attention when you come to reach out beyond you because when you reach out beyond you. You get God's attention on you to get God to move for you. See you moving for the benefit of someone you remember I said given will be given to you. Whatever it is you believe in addition to your general obedience to God look for that need to be met in somebody because now you have become a vehicle of a blessing you become a conduit. Dr. Evans will have more about moving those blessings along to your church family when he returns in just a moment first. So let me tell you about a great conduit, a blessing that flows in both directions. It starts when we send you our six messages in Tony's current teaching series return on investment which covers vital biblical principles like surrender service and the benefits of investing our lives in the Lord along with it will include the companion study guide that's perfect for use with your personal devotions as well as your Bible study or small group.

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When you want to be moving fast in the Slow Ln., Bass Lake you lagging behind. She adds another word to it for the work permit means to boil over us like the heat water for tea and you get it all boils fervently to boil. Not only does God want you to impact the life of another. What you put it all boiled.

He wants nothing he wants you to go for it still just want your frozen slab want you and say, God, this is what you want me to do when God touches you and says you know what you can do some about that you can help the situation. You could do something over there double site next week when God likes something in you and he says to you I'm talking to you that something you get out with somebody you can pray for that situation, you can turn on. He says be private in spirit and he says just do it for people. He says serving the you actually focusing in on it goes on the says rejoicing in whole persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality were hospitality is using Scripture of helping strangers protruding to the needs of the saints with situations more familiar with you. You know what the need is practicing hospitality to strangers.

He's talking about other believers who you haven't gotten to know yet, even though I've never met you don't know you your stranger to me. I just want you to know that God loves you, and I believe that the same God that came through from each to come through for you and maybe sometime we need to meet a church which are physically right now. You must train just pray for you something. Practically, I can do contribute to needs cook a meal provided to whatever it is I'm going to do that because God has laid John Doe on my high stranger to you now important because the book of Hebrews 13 save by taking care of strangers you entertained angels unaware the Greek word for angels under loss means messenger and a messenger is a divinely assigned being to bring God's answer to you. Angels angles have full-time jobs and the job is to deliver God's message to his people.

Sometimes their spiritual angels, God used sometime that human angels, God uses, but he uses scenarios to bring to you the solution you were looking out for you so when you go to practice hospitality in a responsible way to a stranger you may be going to the situation that God wants to use to give you the answer you been waiting to hear from seek God's got this thing so that the vertical and horizontal not only benefit what you go out to what you're looking and the more I look at it this principle of the vertical meetings when the more I look at the two connecting now see this thing working which is why he says in first John chapter 4 that if a man says he loves me but he has no love for the brethren. He's not going to experience me so a lot of us are blocking by being selfish only focused far too many of God's children spiritual orphans. They have or maybe they're in foster care.

They just bounce around from house to house, they don't have a place with a land to join the church is not merely to have a place to sit on Sunday. It is to build community with some group with in that. That's why the Bible says they gathered together, and then they went from house to house so they broke up and the small arrangements so that they could connect with one another and relate to one another so they could deal with people who were like them will struggling with them so that there was nothing that was community in the house. That's why when emphasizing in the season of our ministry will result in connectedness without compromising our verbal connectedness when emphasizing how resulting connectedness so that people are connecting with people to give you the opportunity not only to reach out this way to get God to work with this and when church becomes this, then it becomes authentic, then it becomes real. It's no longer think is no longer Sunday morning only is no longer religious activity is no longer just the six sunken sidewalks, it's creating a healthy government in which God is freedom because no matter how much money we spent many programs we come up with the environment is not conducive horizontally and vertically.

God is not free to express all that he wants to do when that environment changes so that not only is the vertical right, but the horizontal is connected to it. God explodes through his people.

The church having that group within the church. We love you and whom you love because you can't know everybody. You can't relate to everybody unless the church is real small you can't do that but there ought to be people within the family of God, whom you love who love you where both of you love God and you are committed when you committed freeing God up to blow everybody's Mark. That's why when the Bible speaks of the unity of the church preserve because of the unity of the Spirit because that's where the spirit goes that's what he fully can express himself. That's also why the devil wants to keep fighting going on which the devil is confining going on because you know that'll keep the spirit away. He knows he can keep in your family and God's plan.

If you he knows prayer becomes waste the time Bible says God will not the prayer of a husband not get along with his wife longer bother pray God not listening. First Peter 371 because Satan has created a division and using that division to God's. Wake operates in unity, see that's what we think a fight is not a fight Satan's attempt to keep God premises whenever the premises after the day.

So this thing is BigOven and the more I look at it is just everywhere.

These one another's this this horizontal connect doctrines will come back in a moment with a final illustration to wrap up today's lesson giving to other believers. That's the title dimension when you check with us for details on getting the full length CD which includes material.

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Take another step. They stored in the water go a few more feet of the starfish little son said I'm the one you doing it there hundreds of starfish. Okay, you can never form all back in the water. You just go a few feet wanted for little what difference does it make which the father says what it make a lot of difference to the ones I pick up. I can pick up small ones. I do pick up their lives and change just one a lot of starfish. It is the passes can only pick up so many because we have our human limitations to sometime we'll starfish in the to be picked up so we can we can pick them all up against what if I get enough local beach.

If I get enough St. on the beach and we can pick up all the starfish and get them all thrown back to the life that they are supposed to live because of folk on the beach to pick up the ones been washed ashore so that we can all get back to the life of the alternative with Dr. Tony Irvin alternative is made possible by the generous contributions of listeners