with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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… That preserves love. Ephesians 4.2. Be humble and gentle by being patient with each other. Making allowances for each other's faults because of your love. Circle the phrase making allowances. Now, notice it says, be humble, be gentle, and it says, be loving because of your love. Do you consider yourself to be a loving person? You'd say, probably, yeah, I do. Do you consider yourself to be a humble person? Yeah, I just wrote a book on it, it's a bestseller. How to be humble like me. Do you consider yourself to be a gentle person? Well, the truth is, you're none of those if you're critical of other people's faults and flaws. You are not humble if you are critical of other people's faults and flaws. You are prideful. Every time you criticize somebody's faults and somebody's flaws, you are being prideful. You are not being gentle and you certainly are not being loving because love is patient. Love puts up with anything. Love patiently accepts all things. …
… Consideration is seeing what your mate needs in advance and not having to wait for them to ask you for help. It's being considered. Can I help you? It's you taking the initiative. Ephesians 4.2 says, show your love by being helpful to each other. That's consideration. Just being practical and helping each other without your mate having to ask you. Now that means bringing in the groceries, even if it's the fourth quarter. It means waiting until both of her legs are in the car before you shut the door. You know, it's common consideration, just thinking about what would be helpful. Number two, sympathize with their doubts and fears. Sympathize with their doubts and fears. The Bible says in Romans 15, we must be considerate of the doubts and fears of others. If we do what helps them, we will build them up in the Lord. Now, have you noticed that my fears are always logical and rational, your fears are stupid. They're dumb. They're illogical. What I'm afraid of, what I have doubts about is very reasonable, but what you're afraid of, well, you shouldn't be afraid of it. And that causes a lot of problems. You're being inconsiderate of the fears and doubts of others. Don't poo-poo their fears. You know, I grew up in a home in the country where we never, ever locked any door. Even when we went away, we never locked the house. …
… Carry one another's burdens with patience, bearing with one another in love. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. In humility, consider one another as more important than yourselves. Do not lie to one another, admonishing one another, increasing and overflow with love for one another. Encourage one another, build up one another, watch out for one another to provoke love and good works. Do not criticize one another. Do not complain about one another. Confess your sins to one another. Pray for one another. Be hospitable to one another without complaining. And the parents said, amen. Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another. Clothe yourselves with humility towards one another. We cannot obey this list if we buy into an individualized, privatized, personalized version of following Jesus. You cannot obey God fully if you're living life individually. You must belong to a community. It's insisted on in scripture, but it's also what you were made for. …
… helping people be whole and healthy spiritually in the house of God Paul puts it this way in his letter in Ephesians chapter 4 verses 1 through 6 let me read it like this as a prisoner for the Lord then I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received be completely humble and gentle oh I'm about to get on somebody's nerves be patient bearing with one another in love make every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace there is one body and one spirit just as you were called to one hope when you were called one lord one faith one baptism one god and father of all who is over all and through all and in all do you hear do you see the picture he's telling you you you have to operate in humility you must operate in gentleness you've got to be patient you've got to love one another and make every effort you can to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace he's saying you keep unity by making sure that peace is your priority i'm dropping nuggets all the way through this if you want to know how i become more unified and ask yourself this is peace my priority when i'm in the meeting when i'm the leader as I follow the leader as I don't agree with what the pastor is saying as I don't like the direction that I see certain things going in am I prioritizing peace am I prioritizing unity …