The Perfect Relationship Matthew 1:18-25

The Perfect Relationship - Matthew 1:18-25

There are two major terms in this topic. We are looking at Perfect and Relationship. In a simple term, relationship means how you do things with God and the people around you. Perfect means spotless or without error. The Perfect Relationship - Matthew 1:18-25.

When put together in different terms perfect relationship means a relationship - without a spot, Sinless relationship, association or Relationship with no comma.

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There are different kinds of relationships that exist among mankind. Text: Matt. 1:18-25. I want to state here that any relationship that is godly is perfect (Matt. 24:12). If you are observant, you will notice that our last year and this year is pointing towards one direction, which is “our relationship with one another.” I want us to look into two elements in our theme which are perfect and Relationships.

What is perfect? Perfect means what is good that has no comma. A man in the bible was described as being perfect. Who was that? The person was Job (Job 1:1-2) blameless, which has no cancellation. It is like going through this article without seeing a single typo or grammatical error which is impossible. But that is perfect relationship is like.

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Relationship means communication, union, doing things together, Running things together. Summary: blameless association, spotless union, relationship without a comma.

But, wait! I have a problem with this topic, perfect relationship. We actually need to differentiate the Kingdom relationship from the kind of relationship we see today in the world. We always hear about celebrities having a perfect relationship with their spouses or lovers. This is not what we want to discuss here. We want to talk about a relationship that is perfect because of its godly nature.

  On that note, we need to attach another keyword to the topic to separate the wheat from the weeds.

The Perfect Relationship - Matthew 1:18-25

  Perfect Christian relationships

The people they are referring to are the Christians. (Heb. 12:2): Those who draw their example from Jesus, not from the world. We are dwelling on our own kind of faith relationships which must be perfect. In the beginning, we mentioned that the relationships are in plural form: from our readings, we saw: Matt. 1:18-25 & Prov. 31:10
(1)    God and man relationships
(2)    Husband and wife relationships, boyfriend, girlfriend, fiancé, fiancée
(3)    Parents and child relationships
(4)    Siblings and siblings
(5)    Neighbours and neighbours

    Features of the perfect Christian relationship

(1)    Protect the integrity of one another (verse. 19)/ cover one another’s ill or fault.
(2)    No defiling or contaminating
(3)    Absent of hypocrisy
(4)    Be there for one another
(5)    Take permission
(6)    Have respect or regard for one another
(7)    Be faithful to one another (Proverb 31:10-12)
(a)    Faithful to God. He who calls you is faithful
(b)   Faithful to your partner, to your husband
(c)    Faithful to your neighbours

A perfect relationship is all about being faithful. When everyone shows faithfulness in our relationships, our relationships will bear the fruits of perfection.