MARKS ON THE MASTERPIECE

We are of the highest value in God’s eyes. But being valuable doesn’t mean you ___________ valuable. Ephesians 2:10 You are His poem in _________. Philippians 1:6 God is always working for our good - even through life’s ______ stuff. Genesis 50:20 Marks on the Masterpiece come from: 1) Is a ticking . Only guarantees the pain lasts ____________. Grieving is His prescription for graduating from grief. It means you can . Psalm 30:5 Crying out to God in our grief guarantees sorrow doesn’t have the last word - our ______________ does. Psalm 34:18 I Peter 5:7

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John 11:35

______________. It’s a ____________ that only hurts you and people you love. Hebrews 12:15 Holding on to the anger only allows the person who hurt you to live rent- free in your _________________. Forgiveness is . Colossians 3:1 Forgiveness is NOT approving of what was done to you. It IS the complete ___________ of bitterness and hatred towards that person or people. God’s command to forgive is not to make light of your wounds - it is His offer of His power to ________________ them. God says “ is mine”. Romans 12:19-20 43 Forgiveness isn’t a feeling. It’s a step of courageous ____________. You know you’ve really forgiven when you don’t __________ any more. II Corinthians 13:1 3) Sin can feel like it has an almost hopelessly strong hold on you. II Corinthians 10:3-4 We can’t fight it __________ or in our own strength. Ephesians 3:20 Sin is rampant in the lives of believers because we’ve found a new _________ (phone) and forgotten our _________ (God’s Word). Without the anchor, we forget the devastating ____________ of sin. Romans 6:23 The cost of unconfessed, “acceptable” sin in our lives is the loss of: • Closeness in . • Closeness to . • to God. • Eternal . One of the most difficult and pervasive seemingly inescapable sins: - Want to be free of it? Three B’s: • A . Romans 12:2 • A . Acts19:19 • A . James5:16 Hebrews 12:1-2 Two lists: COLD or BOLD. The cold list adds lots of new members every

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day. But that’s not the list for a ____________! Matthew 24:12 We are His ______________! We are His treasured ______________! We will keep all His ________! Deuteronomy 26:18