We were created in this life as relational individuals. This short presentation seeks to examine our existing relationships, if we have the right people building us the way we wanted our life to be.
3. Hebrews 10:24-25
24“And let us consider how we may spur one
another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not
giving up meeting together, as some are in the
habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and
all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
5. INTRODUCTION:
Life Truth No.1: All of us were created by God as
Relational beings.
Life Truth No.2: All of us need someone to relate
and complete us.
Life Truth No.3: Man’s greatest fulfillment is to
be in a relationship.
6. The Relationships that we have in our life has
the power to greatly influence our Decision
Makings and Life Directions.
8. I. Brings the
Best in You
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
As iron sharpens
iron, so one
person sharpens
another.
– Proverbs 27:17
9. I. Brings the
Best in You
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
Do not be
misled: “Bad
company
corrupts good
character.”
– 1 Corinthians 15:33
10. I. Brings the
Best in You
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
One who has
unreliable
friends soon
comes to ruin,
but there is a
friend who sticks
closer than a
brother.
– Proverbs 18:24
11. I. Brings the
Best in You
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
Do not make
friends with a hot-
tempered person,
do not associate
with one easily
angered, or you
may learn their
ways and get
yourself ensnared.
– Proverbs 22:24-25
12. II. Reminds
you to do
what is Right
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
Walk with the
wise and become
wise,
for a companion
of fools suffers
harm.
– Proverbs 13:20
13. II. Reminds
you to do
what is Right
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
Listen to advice
and accept
discipline, and at
the end you will
be counted
among the wise.
– Proverbs 19:20
14. II. Reminds
you to do
what is Right
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
Better is open
rebuke than
hidden love.
Wounds from a
friend can be
trusted, but an
enemy multiplies
kisses.
– Proverbs 27:5-6
15.
16. III. Draws you
closer to God
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
The righteous
choose their
friends carefully,
but the way of the
wicked leads them
astray.
– Proverbs 12:26
17. III. Draws you
closer to God
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
You adulterous
people, don’t you
know that friendship
with the world means
enmity against God?
Therefore, anyone who
chooses to be a friend
of the world becomes
an enemy of God.
– Proverbs 12:26
18. III. Draws you
closer to God
Outline:
Choose Relationships
that…
Greater love has no
one than this: to lay down one’s
life for one’s friends. You are my
friends if you do what I
command. I no longer call you
servants, because a servant
does not know his master’s
business. Instead, I have called
you friends, for everything that I
learned from my Father I have
made known to you.
– John 15:13-15