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Some Things Are Personal

Explore the significance of keeping personal matters private to maintain harmony in relationships and prevent unnecessary distractions. Learn from biblical teachings on sin, rebuke, and forgiveness, emphasizing the value of handling issues discreetly. Discover how maintaining privacy cultivates understanding and fosters forgiveness in personal interactions.

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Some Things Are Personal

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  1. Some Things Are Personal And ought to be kept that way! Personal: A private matter Not of common knowledge

  2. Problems Medical Financial Work Sin

  3. Passages That Make A Distinction Private Matt. 18:15-17 Luke 17:1-4 Public Gal. 2:11-14 1 Cor. 5

  4. Seeing That Distinction • Makes solving personal matters easier • Prevents weaker from being influenced • Keeps the church from being distracted

  5. Focal Point: Two Passages Matthew 18:15-17 Luke 17:1-4

  6. I. Sin • Private Sin - Matt. 18 • “Against you” (v. 15) • Private interview says sin was private • Peter asks about “against me” (v. 21) • Private Sin - Luke 17 • “Against you” • Returns to “you” saying...

  7. Point: Lessons: 1. The more private matters are kept private matters the less public trouble we will have 2. Public matters are not to be treated as private matters. Times that sin is personal (private) something that is between the two parties and God

  8. II. Rebuke • Primary Approach - (1st Step) • Offended to offender • Tell him his sin (definite; not hurt feelings) • Purpose (gain him) • Attempt to keep private matter private • Secondary Approach - (2nd Step) • Others with you • Causes offender to ask: “is it that serious?” • “Final” Approach - (3rd Step)

  9. III. Forgiveness • Effort to Correct - Willing to Forgive • Qualities Needed to Forgive • Patience (Matt. 18:26) • Compassion (Matt. 18:27, 33) • Sincerity (Matt. 18:35) • Faith (Lk. 17:5) • Conditional - “if repents” (Lk. 17:3) • Give Benefit of Doubt (Lk. 17:4) • “saying I repent”

  10. Some Things Are Personal I. Sin II. Rebuke III. Forgiveness

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