Preschool Precepts Part 3 - "Say I Forgive You"

Intro: We’re going to talk about one of the most freeing actions that we can ever participate in or receive.

1. Forgiveness Removes
-1 John 1:9
-Psalms 103:11-12

2. Forgiveness Releases and Restores
-Romans 8:1-4
-Amish Forgiveness:

3. Forgiveness Doesn’t Remember
-Hebrews 10:17
-1 Corinthians 13:5

4. Forgiveness Remembers
-Matthew 18 – unforgiving servant
-Matthew 6:14-15

5. Forgiveness Is Relentless
-Matthew 18:21-22

6. Forgiveness Requires a Payment
-Forgiveness always costs the person who does the forgiving. What would it cost to forgive...

• someone who owes you $100?
• someone who borrowed your shirt and ripped it?
• someone who insulted you?
• someone who embarrassed you in front of your friends?
• someone who spread lies about you?
• someone who dented your car?
• someone who hurt you physically?

-Forgiveness may cost the forgiver money or a material item, but it will always cost the forgiver vengeance or retribution or PRIDE. What did it cost God to forgive us?

-Heb 9:22

Conclusion:
The Heart of Christ: Luke 23:34

Shared files:
-Say I Forgive You Notes
-Say I Forgive You Powerpoint

Preschool Precepts Part 2 - "Say You're Sorry"

Intro: It’s all in how we say it.

Definition: Repent – To feel such regret for past conduct as to change one's mind regarding it
-negative – contrition, heart-broken, remorse
-positive – change

Horizontally (between man and man)

• Matthew 5:21-24

Vertically (between man and God)

• Sorrow brings repentance - 2 Corinthians 7:8-11

• Repentance is an urgent matter - Isaiah 55:6-9

• It's God's desire - 2 Peter 3:9

• It delights all of heaven - Luke 15:7

• Jesus preached repentance for salvation - Matthew 4:17

Concluding Quotes

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love. –Taylor

Christ and we will never be one until we and our sin are two. -Spurgeon

Shared files:
Say You're Sorry Notes
Say You're Sorry Powerpoint

*Note: The Powerpoint is definitely barebones on this one, but it may be a good start for you.

Preschool Precepts Part 1 - "Say Thank You"

Here is the first lesson in the 8-week series "Preschool Precepts". The idea behind this series is that there is a spiritual basis or foundation for some of the rules we were given as children. Drawing from Mark 10:15, we will be examining how we need to return to the mindset of children in our faith while displaying the surprising simplicity of following Jesus. Each week we will discuss a rule. The first week is based on the rule of saying thank you which displays the theme of thankfulness.

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Intro:

-2 Timothy 3:1-2

1. What is thankfulness?
-gratitude, grateful, appreciation
-more than those - it's an expression

2. To Whom do we give thanks?
-Ephesians 5:20

3. For What do we give thanks?
-1 Thessalonians 5:18

4. When should we give thanks?
-Hebrews 13:15

5. Why should we give thanks?
-Psalms 92:1
-Psalms 35:18
-Psalms 75:1

Examples:

1. Luke 17:11-19
2. “I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.” – Helen Keller

Conclusion:
-True thankfulness is a sign of true humility.
-We can be thankful in all things because of what Christ has done for us.

Shared files:
Say Thank You Notes
Say Thank You Powerpoint