Sermon Series: “Better Together ” — Sermon: “A Jesus Mindset Produces Healthy Relationships”

Sermon Series: “Better Together ” — Sermon: “A Jesus Mindset Produces Healthy Relationships”

A Jesus Mindset Produces Healthy Relationships

John 13:34-35 TPT “So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.”

Drop the mic … end of sermons forever!!!

Two parts to the Bible: 1. Good News.  2. Good Advice

Some lives are like Jenga. Pieces keep falling out but they are never restored and eventually it all comes crashing down.

Janky:—a slang term for something run down, of poor quality, or unreliable. It can also be used for someone considered undesirable in some way.

(dictionary.com)

I drove to Florida on a tire with a broken belt. Blew out on the highway coming into Cincinnati. You have to deal with foundational issues or you will experience a blow out at the worst of times.

Dr Dean Ornish (Ornish Lifestyle Medicine)

“Love and intimacy — our ability to connect with ourselves and others, is at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, … People who feel lonely and isolated have a 300-500 percent greater risk of premature death due to 

physical illness.”

“In the Christian story God descends to re-ascend. He comes down…down to the very roots and sea-bed of the Nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him.”    C.S. Lewis (Miracles)

Philippians 2:1-11 (Message)

“If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care—then do me a favor:

Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

“Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. (MINDSET NIV) He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave,

became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.

“Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father.”

A Jesus Mindset Produces Healthy Relationships

Let’s Check The Tires in Your relationships

1. How Is Your Tread?

“…if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you…”

How are you where the rubber meets the road?

Is there traction in your life?

You are equipped to excel!

2. How Is Your Balance?

“Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead.” 

A lack of balance can wear you out quickly.

Focusing on others brings refreshment to life.

3. How Is Your Presure?

“Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage.”

Is there over inflation?

Is there a slow leak?

Got a nail in your tire?

4. How Is Your Alignment?

“…will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ,”

Jesus Is Lord!

Align yourself with Jesus and enjoy the unforced rhythms of GRACE!

Philippians 2:5 (NKJV)

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,…”

1 Corinthians 2:16

“But we have the mind of Christ.”

John 13:34-35 TPT

“So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you.”