3. SERIES KEY VERSE & THOUGHT How we live out our faith will determine how God will bless and use us. 2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue…

4. Matthew 26:31-35 31 Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. 32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” 33 Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.” 34 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” 35 But Peter declared, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And all the other disciples said the same.

5. DISLOYALTY IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE IN THE MIRROR. Matthew 26: 69-75 69 Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said. 70 But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. 71 Then he went out to the gateway, where another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.” 72 He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know the man!”

6. DISLOYALTY IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE IN THE MIRROR. Matthew 26: 69-75 73 After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, “Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.” 74 Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed. 75 Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” "And he went outside and wept bitterly."

7. DISLOYALTY IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE IN THE MIRROR TRUE LOYALTY IS PROVEN NOT PROCLAIMED Proverbs 20:6 Many will say that we are loyal friends, but who can find one who is truly reliable? “If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t follow. I’d be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.”

8. DISLOYALTY IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE IN THE MIRROR TRUE LOYALTY IS PROVEN NOT PROCLAIMED WHEN CHOOSING LOYALTIES, ALLOW TRUTH TO BE THE ARBITRATOR

9. loyalty (Hebrew, aman) means: to be permanent & unwaveringly faithful Proverbs 20:6 Many will say that we are loyal friends, but who can find one who is truly reliable? 2 Samuel 15:19-21 The King said to Ittai the Gittite..."Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland. You came only yesterday. Go back and take your countrymen. May kindness and faithfulness be with you."

10. loyalty (Hebrew, aman) means: to be permanent & unwaveringly faithful Proverbs 20:6 Many will say that we are loyal friends, but who can find one who is truly reliable? 2 Samuel 15:19-21 The King tells him… hey, your free to go home. You can go. You don't have to fight in this battle, let's not see any of your men injured or killed and not you as well, just go home. But Ittai replied to the king..."As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be."

11. TO YOUR SPOUSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISLOYALTY Malachi 2:15-16 15 Didn’t the Lord make you one with your wife?... So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth. 16 “For I hate divorce!” says the Lord, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty”... “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.”

12. TO YOUR SPOUSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISLOYALTY Proverbs 17:17 A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. TO YOUR FRIENDS

13. TO YOUR SPOUSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISLOYALTY Acts 2:42; 44-46 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord's Supper), and to prayer. TO YOUR FRIENDS TO YOUR CHRIST’S CHURCH

14. TO YOUR SPOUSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISLOYALTY Acts 2:42; 44-46 44 All the believers, they were together and they had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Everyday they continue to meet together in the temple courts. TO YOUR FRIENDS TO YOUR CHRIST’S CHURCH

15. DISLOYALTY IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE IN THE MIRROR TRUE LOYALTY IS PROVEN NOT PROCLAIMED WHEN CHOOSING LOYALTIES, ALLOW TRUTH TO BE THE ARBITRATOR ALL DISLOYALTY IS BORN OUT OF A DIVIDED HEART.

16. James 4:8-9 You who Come close to God and He will come close to you. Recognize that you are sinners, get your soiled hands clean; realize that you have been disloyal wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts of your spiritual adultery. As you draw near to God be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep over your disloyalty. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame for your sins. ALL DISLOYALTY IS BORN OUT OF A DIVIDED HEART.