Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
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… charge that to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it to say nothing of your owing me, even your own self. Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ. Confident of your obedience, I write to you knowing that you will do even more than I say. At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I'm hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you. Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. I encourage you to keep your Bibles open as we make our way through this book and look at various verses in it. As I mentioned, people of God, we are returning to our one-chapter books of the Bible series, these books of the Bible that are easily overlooked, hard to find in our Bibles, sometimes obscure, books that we are not too familiar with, small books, and yet books that are inspired by God and therefore have a God ordained important message for us. We began a couple of weeks ago with Obadiah, just 21 verses. …
… that you owe me your own self besides, yes, brother. Let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart, there's that word, in the Lord. Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say. So let's just say you eventually decide to forgive the person who's hurt you. You choose to do it. You say, you know what? I'm gonna live out the way of Jesus. I'm gonna choose to not hold their sin over them anymore because I know that I've been justified. I want to forgive them. I want to practice my justification and forgive them. What happens when you see them again? What happens when you bump into them at work or at church or at home? You're remembering that you've been forgiven. You're trying to show them that same forgiveness, but what will you do? Now what? is it possible to rebuild a relationship? Is there even a relationship to salvage? If we're being honest, sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. …
… have been refreshed through you I want some benefit from you in the Lord refresh my heart in Christ and this language of refreshment is significant when one of the only places this language is used is in Matthew 11 28 famous passage if you know Matthew 11 28 where Jesus says come to me all who are burdened all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest same word refreshment come to me Jesus says I will give you refreshment. And what I take this to mean is that one of the ways in which Jesus gives the rest, that Jesus gives the refreshment to our souls, one of those key ways is through other people. This can be surprising. Sometimes we take other Christians so for granted. Or we focus just on the hard parts of it. the quirks the idiosyncrasies the challenges of church life because we can be really different in the church we just got this thing in common Jesus it's such a good thing when really different people who wouldn't get together may not get along otherwise get together because of Jesus Jesus looks really good when that happens But we're different. …