February 17 2013 Relationship Rescue: Back To The Basics

Back To The Basics

Memory Verse:
“Reach down from heaven and rescue me; deliver me form deep waters.“ Psalm 144:7


Genesis 2:18 "And the Lord God said, “It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him ."

THREE RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS:

1. Expect Problems in my relationships. (The Myth of Perfection)

Genesis 3:1-7 - Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the creatures the LORD God had made. ''Really?'' he asked the woman. 'Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?" "Of course we may eat it," the woman told him. "It's only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat it or even touch it, or we will die." "You won't die!" the serpent hissed "God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it. You will become just like God, knowing everything, both good and evil." The woman was convinced The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. Then he ate it, too. At that moment, their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they strung fig leaves together around their hips to cover themselves.

2. Accept Responsibility for my relationship problems. (The Myth of Blame)

Genesis 3:12-13 - "Yes, "Adam admitted, "but it was the woman you gave me who brought me the fruit, and I ate it. " Then the LORD God asked the woman, ''How could you do such a thing ?" "The serpent tricked me, " she replied "That's why I ate it."

3. Invite Jesus to be at the center of my relationships (The Myth of Self-Reliance)

Genesis 3:14-24 - So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your browyou will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

My Decision Today:

God will be the Center of my relationships!