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Breaking Free

Breaking Free. The " Onlys ". "It's just the way I am…". "It's just the way I am…" If our Jesus isn't powerful enough We need a new Jesus. Brokenness causes Brokenness. Brokenness causes Brokenness Wholeness produces Wholeness.

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Breaking Free

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  1. Breaking Free The "Onlys"

  2. "It's just the way I am…"

  3. "It's just the way I am…"If our Jesus isn't powerful enoughWe need a new Jesus

  4. Brokenness causes Brokenness

  5. Brokenness causes BrokennessWholeness produces Wholeness

  6. Brokenness causes BrokennessWholeness produces WholenessWhen Wholeness touches BrokennessBrokenness is made Whole

  7. Leper

  8. Woman with the Issue

  9. Your brokenness…?

  10. She took great care of himSuffering with grace to do soEveryone agreed- "She's a saint!"

  11. Everyone said he was a loving husbandShe was lucky to haveSuch a great "catch"

  12. Flat Pepsi…

  13. What dysfunctional behaviorsHave you seen masquerade as love?

  14. What dysfunctional behaviorsHave you seen masquerade as love?- Jealousy- Possessiveness- Controlling- Manipulative- Self-centered

  15. Self-centered:- For what I can get out of it

  16. Self-centered:- For what I can get out of it- For as long as I am Interested/benefitting

  17. Self-centered:- For what I can get out of it- For as long as I am Interested/benefitting- Because it makes me happyTo make you happy

  18. Self-centered:- For what I can get out of it- For as long as I am Interested/benefitting- Because it makes me happyTo make you happy- To be seen as loving and giving

  19. We can only loveTo the extentThat we know God's love

  20. The secret to God working in youis God working through you

  21. We can only loveTo the extentThat we know God's loveWe love because he first loved us- I John 4:19

  22. Created in his image

  23. Created in his imageFallen

  24. Created in his imageFallenMurder of a brother

  25. God's righteousness demands justiceYet he still lovesJesus dies

  26. God shows his lovefor us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us- Romans 5:8

  27. In Christ Jesus we have:- An example

  28. Jesus means we have:- An example- The power to follow

  29. We can only loveTo the extentThat we know God's love

  30. Agape:Unconditional, others-centeredSeeking their best interestsWhen they don't deserve itEven when it costs

  31. Agape:Unconditional, others-centeredSeeking their best interestsWhen they don't deserve itEven when it costsI can't- and won't- outside ofGod's love in me

  32. The secret to God working in youis God working through you

  33. My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality.

  34. It's also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it.

  35. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves. And friends, once that's taken care of and we're no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we're bold and free before God!- John 3:18-21 (Mssg)

  36. The greatest loveComing from us to othersDoesn't originate with us

  37. - Humility- Gratitude- Grace towards thosewho don't know yet(there was a time when you didn't…)

  38. Problems loving certain people…- Spouse making you mad- Negative towards spiritual family- Whole groups of people

  39. The answer to your problemsLoving PeopleIsn't to do better in loving themBut to drawer closer to God

  40. God isn't into betterGod is into new

  41. God isn't into betterGod is into newCreate in me a clean heart, O God,    and renew a right spirit within me- Psalm 51:10

  42. The chain of unhealthy loveIs broken by the agape love of God

  43. The Onlyway to love:ActionsLove doesn't wishLove does

  44. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

  45. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth- 1 John 3:16-18

  46. If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?- James 2:15-16

  47. Love doesn't wishLove does

  48. "Yesterday after marriage counseling she turned right onto the street and passed a house…

  49. Then she saw this…

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