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Notes from Fireproof

Notes from Fireproof. Pat Mitchell Ust-Kamenogorsk March 2009. 1. “… if you marry someone who really, really loves you .”. How do you measure if someone really, really loves you? Cares for you Commitment Consistency.

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Notes from Fireproof

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  1. Notes from Fireproof Pat Mitchell Ust-Kamenogorsk March 2009

  2. 1. “… if you marry someone who really, really loves you.” • How do you measure if someone really, really loves you? • Cares for you • Commitment • Consistency • 1 Peter 5:7 ( NIV )Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. • Psalms 103:17 ( NIV )But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’S love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—

  3. 2. One-third (1/3) of salary going to buy the boat. • How do you decide what are needs? And what are desires? • Our Daily Bread • Health and wellbeing • Nice-to-have • 1 Timothy 5:8 ( NIV ) If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. • 1 Timothy 3:5 ( NIV )(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) • Luke 16:10 ( NIV )“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

  4. 3. “Woman is like a rose. Treat her right, she blooms; treat her wrong, she wilts.” • Examples from real life? • ??? • The verb, “to husband” – “to manage prudently” = to grow and nurture • 1 Peter 3:7 ( NIV )Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

  5. 4a. “Mom’s trying to fix me. I’m not broken!” • Men, who sees your problems best? • Yourself • Wife • Mother • Proverbs 23:22 ( NIV ) Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. • Proverbs 1:8 ( NIV )Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Mother

  6. 4b. “My wife’s trying to fix me. I’m not broken.” Wife • 1 Peter 3:1 ( NASB ) In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, • Malachi 2:16 ( NLT )“For I hate divorce!” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.” • 1 Corinthians 7:34 ( NIV )… An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.

  7. 5. “I want peace.” “Caleb, you want the right kind of peace.” • John 14:27 ( NIV )Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. • John 16:33 ( NIV ) “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” • What is peace? • NOT: Absence of war. • IS: Presence of God.

  8. 6. “When you’re alone – that’s what you default to – nothing honorable about it.” • Examples from real life? • ??? • Americans what happens “behind closed doors” is private business. But does it impact integrity? • Matthew 6:6 ( NIV )But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. • 2 Corinthians 4:1-2 ( NIV ) Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

  9. 7. “You can’t love her – because you can’t give her what you don’t have.” • What didn’t Caleb have? • Is God love? • John 15:19 ( NIV )If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. • 1 Corinthians 13:1 ( NIV ) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

  10. 7. “You can’t love her – because you can’t give her what you don’t have.” • What didn’t Caleb have? • Is God love? • John 15:19 ( NIV )If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. • 1 Corinthians 13:1 ( NIV ) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

  11. 7. “You can’t love her – because you can’t give her what you don’t have.” • What didn’t Caleb have? • Is God love? • John 15:19 ( NIV )If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. • 1 Corinthians 13:1 ( NIV ) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

  12. Превыше всех сил – Above All Above all powers, Above all kings. Above all nature and all created things. Above all wisdom and all the ways of man – You were there before the world began. Above all kingdoms, Above all thrones. Above all wonders the world has ever known. Above all wealth, and treasures of the earth – There’s no way to measure what You’re worth! Crucified, laid behind the stone. You lived to die, rejected and alone! Like a rose, trampled on the ground, You took the fall, and thought of me, Above all! Превыше всех сил, превыше звезд, Превыше всех творений, выше тайных грез. Превыше слов и мудрости моей, Ты – творец вселенной и людей! Превыше всех царств, превыше гор, Превыше всех чудес, известных до сих пор Превыше всех сокровищ на земле, С чем сравнить любовь Твою ко мне. Был распят, но смерть Ты победил Грехи мои кровью искупил Принял боль и умер на кресте Покинут был, но думал Ты обо мне.

  13. 8. “Don’t just follow your heart. Your heart can be deceived. But you’ve got to lead your heart.” • How does a person “lead his heart?” • Matthew 6:21, Luke 12:34 ( NIV )For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. • Psalms 37:4 ( NIV ) [36:4 in Russian Bible]Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.

  14. 9. “I will worship [serve you] while I’m waiting.” • After God works in your heart – are you patient to wait for Him to work in another’s heart? • Psalms 119:166 ( NIV )I wait for your salvation, O LORD, and I follow your commands. • 1 Corinthians 1:7-9 ( NIV )7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 8 He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

  15. 10. Romans 10:9 • Romans 10:9 ( NASB ) that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;  • Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” • Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” • Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” • Romans 10:9, “…that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

  16. 11. “In the last few weeks, God has given me a love for you that I’ve never had before.” • Kinds of love: • Friendship • Erotic • Agape • What did Caleb get from God? • 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a ( NASB )4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8a Love never fails;

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