FOR PERSONAL APPLICATION These aspects of the study can be used in between group sessions on your own, either with your spouse or individually as part of your devotional and confession life.
Do Something During the week ahead, turn your learning into doing.
The final discussion question directed the group to sketch some specific, practical action by which to center your marriage on God’s Kingdom through Christ, and to write down the suggestions. Now, as a couple , select a few key suggestions particularly pertinent to your own marriage, and put them into practice this week. Be reasonable in your commitment so that can achieve your goal without burning yourselves out. Enjoy beginning to reap God’s Kingdom blessings as you seek him first, and come next week prepared to praise him for your early successes. Search Me, O God For introspection during the coming week. What earth-bound treasures am I too-diligently collecting? What is the cost of these pursuits to my spouse and me in our marriage? What practical steps can I take to diminish my service to them, and what heart steps must I take to place God’s Kingdom and righteousness first? What anxiety-based needs am I insistent upon, and feel entitled to? Can I see them for what they are—merely desires and not essential needs at all? Even if these needs are good things in themselves, what practical and heart steps can I take to lower their priority in my life? Want to Know More? The gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke are called the synoptics (“same view”) because they include much of the same material. Each is written from a different perspective, however, with different purposes and emphases, and therefore the order and content of the chronicles vary to a degree. Both Matthew and Luke (but not Mark) include the “kingdom and treasure” material Tripp has been discussing in the last two sessions, and he has focused almost solely on Matthew’s account. For a deeper understanding of Jesus’s important teaching, read both full accounts: Matthew 6:1-34 and Luke 12:1-34 . You will see that the correlative “do not be anxious” sections— Matthew 6:25:33 and Luke 12:22-31 —are very similar in all respects. But let the differences in the rest of the material provide for you a more full-orbed understanding of the Savior’s instruction. For More From Paul Tripp, Read: Marriage: 6 Gospel Commitments Every Couple Needs to Make, Chapters 11 and 12
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