Sermons About Confront
Expecting God To Work Through His Word
A reminder that God works powerfully in the lives of believers through His Word, and we should read His Word with that expectation.
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Caring Enough To Confront
Today’s passage answers the question, “what do we do, as members of Christ’s community, when other members of the community sin against us?”
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Pride or Heroics on the Narrow Road
The Apostle Paul admonishes the Galatians and us in some practical ways that we can love each other. If we see someone stuck in a sin we are to restore them with gentleness and not with a proud attitude, because we are capable of committing the same sin. We should not be envious of each other or try to make ourselves look good by comparing ourselves to others, but instead we should both live up to our own responsibilities and lovingly carry the burdens of those around us. We should also persevere in doing good, not giving up early because it gets hard or getting distracted from the task at hand but remembering that we will harvest what we plant and pressing on to complete the works that God has called us to do.
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Contending For The Narrow Road
No one likes a person who is contentious and always looking to pick a fight. Sometimes the fight erupts around you, though, and you can either surrender or contend for that which is dear to you. The Apostle Paul did not look for a fight in Galatia but the fight was brought to him as false teachers came and tried to get people to believe that they needed to be circumcised in order to be accepted by God. Paul is willing to stand up to anyone, including the Apostle Peter, to make sure that the Gospel of grace is faithfully proclaimed and lived out. He fights because he knows that Jesus died on the cross to open up the only way to God, and if there are other paths to God then Jesus’ sacrifice was meaningless.
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Acts 13:1-12 - Fighting Oversensitivity
Paul and Barnabas went out from the church in Antioch to spread the Gospel to other cities. They came to the island of Cyprus, where the work was opposed by a false prophet. Paul got right in the false prophet’s face, told him that he was full of lies and evil, and cured him with blindness. As we share the truth about Jesus we should not be oversensitive to offending people but we should have both compassion for the lost and the courage and boldness to call out sin and lies when we see them.
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Acts 9:32-43 - Committed to Community
The apostle Peter was traveling to different towns teaching the Scriptures to the believers there. These believers were meeting together regularly and were committed to being involved in each other’s lives. The instructions that Peter was giving them, which we can get a sense of from his letters, would have impossible to follow apart from living in community with other believers who knew each other well enough to know what each other was going through and struggling with. As Christians we need to understand that it is impossible for us to grow in our relationship with Christ if we are not in a group of believers who are involved enough in each other’s lives to be praying for, encouraging, and when necessary confronting each other.
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