First Baptist Church, South Haven
Join us for in-person worship in the sanctuary or live on Facebook at 10:30am. The service will also be posted to YouTube and Archive later in the week.
How Can It Be Done?
Colossians 3:12-13
Pastor Jerry Koller
· Cost
· Misunderstanding of Reconciliation
· Fear
To forgive means to cancel the debt of what is owed in order to provide a door of opportunity for repentance and restoration of the broken relationship.
Cheap forgiveness embraces the idea of peace at any cost
Colossians 3:12-13 shows us how we can forgive, and how we can keep the doors of opportunity open for repentance and restoration of the broken relationship.
Colossians 3:12-13 NIV
Reminder:
· We are God’s chosen people.
· We are God’s holy people.
· We are dearly loved.
The idea of putting on something is like that of becoming or reproducing. Our thoughts, feelings, and actions must become like those of Jesus Christ because we are in Him.
Compassion is having sympathetic concern for the suffering of another coupled with the merciful desire to give aid.
· i.e. The Good Samaritan (Luke 10)
Kindness speaks of a gracious disposition. It has to do with the idea of being as concerned for the needs of a brother as you would for your own needs.
Humility has to do with not thinking of ourselves more highly than we should. It does not demand personal rights but places others and God before personal desires.
Gentleness has to do with the idea of accepting what God allows in our lives without murmuring.
· Gentleness is yielding your personal rights and expectations, with a desire to serve."
Patience comes from a compound word that literally means ‘long-anger’ or in more modern terms, “long-tempered.” Some translations use the word “longsuffering.“
Bearing with One Another has to do with the idea of being self-controlled when conflict arises between you and someone else.
· i.e. Acts 11
Forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone - in this text, this has to do with exercising grace. Grace treats your offender, the one complaining against you, better than he or she deserves just like God treats us better than we deserve when He forgives us.
Forgiveness requires that you absorb certain effects of another person’s sin and release that person from liability to punishment.
· Tyler & Holly Norman upon the birth of their son, Reed, on 10/24.
· Susie (friend of Tracy Marshall) · had a great turn around and the doctor is now talking about sending her to a rehab facility. Praise God for the good news!
· Caroline Bocock has been terribly ill as she is dealing with a Lyme Disease outbreak. She has begun a treatment regimen that looks promising. Please pray that it is effective and that she will be feeling better soon.
· The Marshall Family: Continue to pray for Nolan who is still struggling.
· Joyce Bocock has completed chemo and radiation; praise God that both tumors have shrunk significantly more than expected; evaluating additional treatment options.
· Check out our monthly prayer card on-line at southhavenfbc.com under “Weekly Bulletins” for a list of those with on-going needs.
First Baptist Church
1635 76th Street
South Haven, MI 49090
269-637-1291
southhavenfbc@gmail.com