Week 4 – I Need Help
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Class occurred on 1/29/2025.
Audio used with permission by PaulTripp Ministries.
Here are some items that may be helpful for your review as we head into week 4.
KEY IDEAS:
- We make big deals over little things because we are full of ourselves.
- Jesus didn’t die only for our past sin and future eternity – He died for the here and now.
- Because of 2 Corinthians 5:15, there is no such thing as a hopeless marriage.
- The doorway to hope is personal helplessness. Our hope is in Jesus Christ.
SCRIPTURE PASSAGE
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
- Do I struggle to accept the reality that I am my biggest marriage problem? Do I self-righteously argue against Jesus’ verdict?
- Do I struggle to accept the reality that I have no hope in myself for marriage? Am I trying to do what only grace can do?
- Do I struggle to allow other people to know the true me, riddled with flaws, weaknesses, and failure?