2. God’s Grace is Sufficient for You 2 Cor 12:9

3. A Believer Makes a Choice Based on Truth You Truth Decision Glorifies God Does Not Glorify God TeachingLeading Quenching/Grieving emotion THOUGHT emotion Ps 143:10, Jn 14:26, 1 Cor 2:12-16 Ps 143:10, Rom 8:4, Gal 5:16

4. A Believer Makes a Choice Based on Emotion You Truth Decision Glorifies God Does Not Glorify God TeachingLeading Quenching/Grieving Subtle Arrogance, Rom 6:13 & 12:1 thought EMOTION thought EMOTION Broken

5. What You THINK Matters as Much as What you Do.

6. Matthew 5:21-26 21 “You have heard 21 “You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be guilty before the judge.’ ‘Whoever commits murder shall be guilty before the judge.’ 22 “Now I say to you 22 “Now I say to you that _________________ that _________________ everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the judge; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. Ex 20:13; Dt 5:17 Not a quote of the OT progression? prohibition consequence

7. Application: Priority for Others 23 “Therefore IF 23 “Therefore IF You are presenting your offering at the altar, You are presenting your offering at the altar,and there remember that your brother has something against you, THEN 24 Leave your offering there before the altar and go; THEN 24 Leave your offering there before the altar and go; First be reconciled to your brother, and Then after coming back present your offering.

8. The Grace Period 25 “Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. 26 “AMEN I say to you, 26 “AMEN I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.

9. The Teaching principle application