It’s Not You, It’s Me - You Before Me
FALLING in love is EASY, but STAYING in love is HARD.
John 13:34-35 (NIV)
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.
I will DO for YOU what Jesus has DONE for ME.
Philippians 2:3a (NIV)
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
Philippians 2:3b (NIV)
Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
Proverbs 16:18 (NIV)
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
Philippians 2:4 (NIV)
Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
VALUE your SPOUSE and their INTERESTS more than your OWN.
Philippians 2:5-6 (NIV)
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
Philippians 2:7 (NIV)
rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:8 (NIV)
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:8 (NIV)
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Jesus opted for RELATIONSHIP over His personal RIGHTS.
Ephesians 5:21-25 (NIV)
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
I will submit and surrender my rights to you as you submit and surrender your rights to me.
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
I will submit and surrender my rights to you as you submit and surrender your rights to me.
It takes TWO, but it starts with YOU.
Ephesians 5:21 (NIV)
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
John 13:35 (NIV)
Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.
Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.