5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh - Love Without Compromising Truth | May 7, 2026
- You know, at times we don't know what
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- Someone might be going through.
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- We live in a culture that loves to condemn and cancel.
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- Jesus calls you and i to live differently,
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- To be loving, to be gentle, to be humble,
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- But never to be afraid to speak the truth.
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- It's the most loving thing that you and i can do.
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- One of the hardest things
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- That i've seen over the last few years
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- Is watching a number of people i know and love
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- Wander away from what god's word says is true.
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- In this day of our addiction to social media and our phones.
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- We're daily bombarded.
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- If we're not careful by a twisted diet of twisted
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- Truth, twisted truth no longer remains true.
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- When we take scripture out of context, it's
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- Easy to justify living any way we want.
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- Even good people can come up with wacky beliefs at times,
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- And that's why it's so important for you and i to know
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- The word of god for ourselves.
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- So what do you do if you see someone you love?
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- Maybe someone in your family or in your group at church?
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- Wander off course.
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- Well, i think the worst thing to do is to start condemning them
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- And telling them that they've lost it.
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- James, who was jesus little brother, addresses
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- This in james chapter five.
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- This is what he writes in five verse 19.
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- My dear brothers and sisters, if someone among you
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- Wanders away from the truth and is brought back,
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- You can be sure that whoever brings the center back
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- From wandering will save that person from death
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- And bring about the forgiveness of many.
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- Since.
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- First thing i noticed
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- There is that james is talking about someone among you.
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- This is not about some casual encounter,
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- Some person you've discovered
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- You don't like the way they're living now.
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- This is about someone you used to walk with, to worship with.
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- That's kind of got off track.
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- How do we share truth in a way
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- That brings conviction, not condemnation?
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- Let me share a few verses.
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- In ephesians chapter four, we read this first thing.
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- Then we will no longer be immature like children.
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- We won't be tossed and blown about
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- By every wind of new teaching.
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- We will not be influenced when people try
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- To trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.
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- Instead, we will speak the truth and love growing in every way,
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- More and more like christ
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- Who is the head of his body, the church.
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- So we'll speak the truth in love, not in judgment.
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- Second, one of the
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- Greatest ways to speak the truth is to live it.
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- I think most people pay more attention to how we live,
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- Rather than the words that come out of our mouths.
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- In first john chapter three, we read this dear children.
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- Let's not merely say that we love each other.
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- Let us show the truth by our actions.
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- Our actions will show that we belong to the truth,
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- So we will be confident when we stand before
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- God, even if we feel guilty.
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- God is greater than our feelings and he knows everything.
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- Number three, we depend on the work
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- And the person of the holy spirit.
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- In that
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- Last teaching moment of christ with his closest friends.
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- He told them in john chapter 16,
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- When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you
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- Into all truth.
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- Now, before what?
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- Paul writes his letter to the church in galatia,
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- He says this in galatians chapter six.
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- Dear brothers and sisters,
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- If another believer is overcome by some sin,
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- You who are godly should gently
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- And humbly help that person back onto the right path.
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- And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself.
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- Share each other's burdens, and in this way
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- Obey the law of christ.
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- Gently and humbly.
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- I love those words.
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- Paul makes it clear that loving
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- Jesus means loving our brothers and sisters too.
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- You know, at times we don't know what
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- Someone might be going through.
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- We live in a culture that loves to condemn and cancel.
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- Jesus calls you and i to live differently,
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- To be loving, to be gentle, to be humble,
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- But never to be afraid to speak the truth.
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- It's the most loving thing that you and i can do.
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- Let's pray.
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- What i want is.
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- Thank you.
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- That in loving others,
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- We don't have to compromise what's true, but not to do.
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- We have to come in and try and correct people ourselves.
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- We know, lord, that that is the holy spirit's job.
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- Lord, we seem to live in a world at that moment
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- That is always angry and polarized.
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- Will you teach us, as your sons
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- And daughters how to speak the truth?
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- I just do it gently, to do it humbly,
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- And to do it in love, in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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