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Dear Bros in Christ,
Proverbs 27:17
 
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.Brothers in Christ, this monthly email is sent and meant to be an encouragement to all and to build upand edify in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oikodome means "Builder". The Lord has put this on my heart tosend out a monthly Iron Man Oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay'} to build up and encourage the men who loveand follow Jesus Christ in their walk with Him.
 
Romans 14: 19
Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by whichone may edify another.
Hebrews 3: 13
"But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness."
FEBRUARY 2007“WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT”
Bros,With love in the air this month! For reasons that have to be purely financially and emotionally drivenand motivated, you are made to feel guilty by the flower, candy, gift, card and restaurant folks if youdo not do something wonderful and expensive for the one you love and this is all by the world’sstandards. Now I am not saying it is not a great thing to honor and do wonderful things for your wifeand show her how special she is to you on this day and really every day.But let’s look at the love God has for each one of us, not that He has not given some of you that speciallove through your wife. But let’s look at His love towards us and how that love should be reflected inour lives to be able to be a living loving example to those around us.Bros have you ever tried to minister and witness to your family members and they reject what you aretrying to share with them and then wondered or thought how God could love some of my familymembers because they are so hard hearted and hard headed. You know the ones that won’t bend onhearing anything about God and are content on going in a continuous direction away from God an allHis ways especially if you are pointing the way towards Him.What about God loving your neighbors how could He after the way they treat you? You know howthey get on your nerves always doing completely stupid stuff that completely irritates you to no end.Of course then there are those hard to get along with co-workers who seem to enjoy rubbing you thewrong way how can God love them when you cannot even love them.Or how about those long running lifetime enemies that have shown up over your life time not really byanything you did intentionally to make them your enemy, but they made you their enemy.Over the course of time all those types of relationships do seem to take up space in your thinking andthat small area of your heart that has just a little sliver of space or a small slot reserved or maybe it’snot a reserved area but an area that has never even been given over to God to cleanse and purge outthose Un-pleasing things that are to Him sin but we do not like to call it that. In your heart you use thissliver or slot for lost causes or people that are lost or the one’s we cannot deal with or cannot love theone’s that do not fit anywhere in our Christianity we don’t like to acknowledge that space is there, butwe do not know what to do with them because we cannot love them and as a result they do not love us.
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