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Scriptures

Intro

Why Do We Belong to Family?

Pull up 1 Corinthians 12:12-20.

At Trinity Church we find that God calls us to embrace the scripture and we see it clearly state for us to be apart of a body.

Context: 1 Corinthians 12 goes over the spiritual gifts.

How one gift is not greater than the other but all play an equal part in what Christ calls us to do.

The common thread between these gifts, empowered by the same Spirit.

They are variations of service, activities, but God is the one who empowers them all.

As He states how we are to view and use these gifts, God shows us the important of different members but the same key principal.

What we see:

Baptized into One Body from the One Spirit

David Guzik “But here, Paul does not have in mind water baptism as much as Spirit baptism: For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body.

Paul here is writing of the common “immersion” all believers have in the Holy Spirit and in Jesus, a common “immersion” which brings them into one body”

The Body is Arranged by God

Together, we Make up the Body of Christ.

How We Belong to Family

Love God With Your Whole Being

Matthew 22:37

With Your Heart

Our Hearts are the center for how we live.

Our desires, passions, affections, motivation.

Our sadness, grief, and depression.

It is the crux of a healthy body, without it, we die.

Often times, our hearts are referred to our emotions and feelings.

It’s more than that though because it leads to action.

Keeping His words, commandments, and living for Him.

Story of how I met Berkley and how my heart lead to action.

The desire I had for Berkley and the want to get to know her better and just to talk to her was evident through my actions.

I found out her last name, facebook friended her, asked her out, and pursued a relationship with her.

We do what we desire.

However, although this was a moment where I saw God’s hand in my life and the guidance and wisdom He gave me, our hearts can feel the exact same way for sin.

The only difference is you might have some conviction or guilt but we want to sin.

That’s why God asks for all of your heart because we need His desires to become our desires.

His ways to become our ways.

God uses the analogy of marriage to compare His relationship with the church as we see it stated in Ephesians, Colossians.

Love God with all your heart and let it be evident in your life.

Although that passion is still there for my wife, it is different.

It’s deeper and more selfless.

The heart I have for her is shown in how much I care for her, spend time with her, grow in God’s word together, pray with and for one another, going on dates, being patient and kind in hard moments, encouraging her, and selflessly loving her as often as my imperfect human heart can.

There are moments that I fail and could do a better job.

However, the goal is to constantly grow and be the best husband I can be for her, by being the best man of God that I can be.

My heart loves her not just from what I say and feel, but what I do and show for her.

What do you do and show for God that you Love Him?

Do you say you Love God but:

Don’t turn away from porn?

It corrupts your mind and sabotages your desires.

Ruins marriage, and grieves the spirt.

But lash out in Anger at your family?

Stay anxious and let it overwhelm you rather than trusting God?

But are envious or jealous of your co-workers or friends?

But never bring up your relationship with God in your conversations?

Imagine this:

I say I love Berkley with my whole heart:

I cheat on her weekly.

I yell and lash out in anger at her

Pretend I don’t have a wife around other girls so they don’t think I’m taken.

Never spend time with her

If I say I love Berkley with my heart but do those things?

Do I truly Love her? Absolutely not.

So why do we do this with God?

Love God with your heart.

To help our heart though which will be under attack often by Satan and the world, we must Love God with our mind.

With Your Mind

Go to Philippians 4:8-9, here we have Paul writing to the Philippians about the about Joy, and how in any circumstance, we can rejoice.

In this chapter, it’s the conclusion of what Paul has talked about, being joyful always to be thankful, humility, unity, exhortation, and wraps this up.

He states this in:

How do we think about these things?

Well one, try and think of these things constantly throughout the day.

Make an effort.

But two, what really works be filled with His Spirit.

Dwell in God’s word.

This takes time.

Try spending an hour of just praying and studying God’s word.

Throughout every thing you do, think of God.

Write down what you are grateful for of what God is doing to you.

Pull up the verse of the day on the bible app 10 times.

Pray to God without ceasing.

Pray to Him always

Study it and become a scholar of His word.

Let your mind be captivated on Him.

Everything you think about, Love Him with your mind.

Don’t just think about God, read His word, study it, and know it, Love Him also with your heart and how you show it.

The heart and mind work together.

With Your Soul

Soul is heart and mind and every aspect of who you are and how God made you.

Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains

Our soul, psuche - “the essence of life in terms of thinking, willing, and feeling—‘inner self, mind, thoughts, feelings, heart, being.’

μιᾷ ψυχῇ συναθλοῦντες τῇ πίστει τοῦ εὐαγγελίου ‘with one mind, struggling together for the faith of the gospel’”

C.S Lewis states

“We don't have a soul.

We are a soul.

We happen to have a body”

Loving God with all of your soul is giving up absolutely all of yourself, surrendering your will to Jesus fully.

Love the Church as Yourself

First, this verse doesn’t just apply to our church, but everyone around us.

The idea of loving others as we would love ourselves is a big task.

First, everything is to God, now, think of the way you want to be treated and loved, well Christ is saying, go do that.

How do you love someone as yourself?

Emphasize with One Another