Pursuing Godly Relationships

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Pursuing Godly Relationships
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We have many different relationships

• Family
• Peers
• opposite sex
• co-workers
• Christians
• Non-Christians
• Those different from us
• Those in authority teacher, boss, pastor,
  mentor, etc.

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For what purpose?

• Blessed are those who love you, O God, and love
  their friends in you and their enemies for your
  sake. They alone will never lose those who are
  dear to them for they love them in one who is
  never lost, in God, our God (St. Augustine).
• Relationships that are not supernatural, are
  superficial.

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Family relationships / Parents

• Exodus 2012 / Deut 516
• Command to honor thy father and mother is
  non-conditional
• Deuteronomy 49 / 64-9 / 1118-20
• Parents have a Biblical mandate to pass down the
  faith to the next generation
• Hebrew 127-13 / Proverbs 311-12 / Proverbs
  2915
• We discipline those we love
• Proverbs 226
• Parenting guidebook is the Bible
• Proverbs 3011 / 101 / 1520
• Children are as responsible to redeem family
  relationships as parents
• John 913-23
• Parents are not perfect
• Luke 1511-32
• A fathers love is supposed to be unconditional
• Ephesians 61-4 / Colossians 320
• Be obedient, parents are a watchtower for us
• 1 Timothy 54 8
• Gods desire is that families take care of each
  other

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Everclear Father of MinePs. 68 5-6

• Father of MineTell me where have you beenYou
  know I just closed my eyesMy whole world
  disappearedFather of mineTake me back to the
  dayWhen I was still your golden boyBack before
  you went away
• I remember the blue skiesWalking the blockI
  loved it when you held me highI loved to hear
  you talkYou would take me to the movieYou would
  tke me to the beachYou would take me to a place
  insideThat is so hard to reach
• Father of mineTell me where did you goYou had
  the world inside your handBut you did not seem
  to knowFather of mineTell me what do you
  seeWhen you look back at your wasted lifeAnd
  you don't see me
• I was ten years oldDoing all that I couldIt
  wasn't easy for meSometimes you would send me a
  birthday card(And forget to sign it)With a five
  dollar billI never understood you thenAnd I
  guess I never will

• Daddy gave me a nameMy dad he gave me a
  nameThen he walked awayDaddy gave me a
  nameThen he walked awayMy dad gave me a name
• Father of mineTell me where have you beenI just
  closed my eyesAnd the world disappearedFather
  of mineTell me how do you sleepWith the
  children you abandonedAnd the wife I saw you
  beat
• I will never be safeI will never be saneI will
  always be weird insideI will always be lameNow
  I'm a grown manWith a child of my ownAnd I
  swear I'm not going to let her knowAll the pain
  I have known

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George Straight Love without End, Amen

• I got sent home from school one day with a shiner
  on my eye.
• Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't
  matter why.
• When dad got home I told that story just like I'd
  rehearsed.
• And then stood there on those tremblin' knees and
  waited for the worst.
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• When I became a father in the spring of '81
• There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just
  like my father's son.
• And when I thought my patience had been tested to
  the end,
• I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to
  him.
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• Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside
  those pearly gates.
• When suddenly I realized there must be some
  mistake.
• If they know half the things I've done, they'll
  never let me in.
• And then somewhere from the other side I heard
  these words again.

Chorus And he said, "Let me tell you a secret
about a father's love, A secret that my daddy
said was just between us." He said, "Daddies
don't just love their children every now and
then. It's a love without end, amen, it's a love
without end, amen."