Mosaic Mansfield
Your will be done..
How do we relate? God, self, others, do not compartmentalize how we relate (in) one relationship from another - they all function with the same principles because this IS God’s way and therefore His design and the intention of the design. This goes go back to the principle of “we”. Can you imagine how confusing it would be if God made each type of relationship with completely different sets of principles? We would be lost - going from one relationship to another...
Locations & Times
Mosaic Mansfield
296 Park Ave W, Mansfield, OH 44906, USA
Saturday 7:00 PM
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:50 AM
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● Acquaintance to friend
● “How can you help me?” to “How can I help you?”
● Friend to good friend
● And then there’s a friend who sticks closer than a brother… (Prov 17:17; 27:10)
● It is no longer what we can do for each other, it has now become, who you are and who i am, and us, we, together
Prov 17:17; 27:10
17:17 A friend loves at all times,<br> and a brother is born for a time of adversity.<br><br>27:10 Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,<br> and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—<br> better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
As love grows over time, the depth of that love is very often governed by trust, so in order for that love to grow and be more effective we must grow in trust. So to love well, we must grow in trust, and trust grows as we gain more knowledge of the one we know. In turn, trust and love, and our ability to love well, will grow when as our knowledge increases and then as we apply the principles of wisdom to that knowledge in that relationship - and in so, learn to love wisely.
All of this, our love and trust, deepens and matures as we are becoming more and more persuaded that this person is who he/she says they are, that the knowledge that we gain and the experiences we have had with them come together and continue to promote my being persuaded, until I am convinced that what I see is true, and as we become more persuaded and more convinced, trust grows, and with trust, love. This is why it is so important to know, more and more the one we love, as to grow in that love - and this is true with everyone I would love, and true of God, too.
All of this is true, and all of this takes time. You see, over time, as I learn more and more, and I experience more and more, I become more and more convinced, that what I know about this person is true, and now, tried and true. The more my knowledge of this person grows, so does my being persuaded if what I am seeing matches up to the character I have thus far witnessed… and with that consistency, seeing it again and again, I am even more convinced and therefore love and trust, more. (Eph 1:3; 3:7-21; 2Tim 1:12)
Eph 1:3; 3:7-21
1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.<br><br>3:7 I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given methrough the working of his power. 8 Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentilesthe boundless riches of Christ, 9 and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. 10 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 11 according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. 13 I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.<br>A Prayer for the Ephesians<br>14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a]in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.<br>20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
2Tim 1:12
1:12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame,because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
Being persuaded, being convinced, learning to love, to trust, does not happen overnight, neither is it a one, or two, or even three time deal, this is something that happens over time, and that, time-after-time - it is progressive and perpetual - ongoing and persistent and consistent. Or as Peter would say happening “...in increasing measure…”. (Deut 7:9; 32:3-4; 2Sam 22:31)
Deut 7:9; 32:3-4
7:9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God,keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.<br><br>32:3 I will proclaim the name of the Lord.<br> Oh, praise the greatness of our God!<br>4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect,<br> and all his ways are just.<br>A faithful God who does no wrong,<br> upright and just is he.
2Sam 22:31
31 “As for God, his way is perfect:<br> The Lord’s word is flawless;<br> he shields all who take refuge in him.
And all of this happens in and with, wisdom.
Psalm 34:8
8 Taste and see that the Lord is good;<br> blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
1Peter 2:3
3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
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● wisdom and
○ Knowledge - information in mind 1pet 2:3; psalm 34:4-10, 15-20, 22
■ Prudence - carefully consider likely consequences
○ Discretion - tact, good judgment (devising - plan)
■ Prudence - carefully consider likely consequences
○ Insight - perceptive, able to see clearly into the nature of a thing
■ Prudence - carefully consider likely consequences
○ Discernment - differentiate
■ Prudence - carefully consider likely consequences
○ Understanding - grasp the meaning, able to explain
■ Prudence - carefully consider likely consequences
○ Wisdom - skill and application of that skill
■ Prudence - carefully consider likely consequences
○ Wisely learning, and re-learning, and learning still, to love, how to love, and how to love better - that love expressed is not only love, or how to love, but how to love in such a way that it is for the benefit of the beloved, in just the right way they need to be loved - and this is the goal of all love
■ Prudence - carefully consider likely consequences
● Patience, tolerance and kindness… this is a process and we are in progress… never fully complete, but as complete as we can be in the moment (the present) we are to love
Wisdom = love… Jesus is…
● Love
● Wisdom
● Learning to love wisely
● We esteem people when we love them - the way they need to be loved according to their bent[1] !
○ Loving wisely means to love in the
● revelation,
○ so that you may know him better.
18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know
● the hope to which he has called you,
● the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
● 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
○ That power is the same as the mighty strength 20he exerted when he
■ raised Christ from the dead and
■ seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,
■ 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
■ 22And God placed all things under his feet and
■ appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
2Peter 1
1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
2Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Confirming One’s Calling and Election
3His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
10Therefore, my brothers and sisters,a make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, 11and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.