RESILIENT

The Power of Promises

May 21, 2023

Main Scripture: Matthew 26:35, 69-74

Additional Scriptures: Proverbs 16:8, Hebrews 12:15, Romans 7:15, 1 Peter 5:8, John 21:15-22

POINTS:

• Integrity: Doing what you say you are going to do

• Apostasy: The great falling away

• Pride causes broken commitments.

• Our “yes’s” and “no’s” should be treated as a commitment. There should be no “degrees” of integrity in the people of God.

• Keeping our promises protects our hearts from bitterness.

• Our ability to make and keep promises affects our identity.

• Integer: whole

• Breaking promises fractures us, and keeping them works toward wholeness.

• Our ability to make and keep promises affects the community.

• The result of promise-breaking is aloneness.

• Seeing Jesus’s love for us helps us become a promise-maker because love is a promise

• We must count the cost before making a promise.

• To be a promise-keeper we must follow Jesus’ example of delayed gratification.

• Jesus doesn’t waste the promises we keep.

• Jesus is the perfect promise-keeper and he was treated like the worst promise-breaker.

• A repentant promise-breaker is a promise keeper.

• ***D2 SOAP is Habakkuk chapter 3***

• Based on the John Eldridge books Resilient & Getting your life back