Do You Love Him
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The most important ingredient in ALL of salvation, faith, doctrine, the church world, anything about God AT ALL is missing from almost everyone’s definition.
The Nicean Creed
The Apostle’s Creed
etc..
Love & Faith work together & feed off of each other.
SO, can you be saved and not love God?
Can *anything* happen with God if you don’t love Him?
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
the “law & the prophets” meant the whole Bible!
24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
this is actually one of the most important passages in the Bible.
This shows us that if we don’t love Him, we will despise Him. He keeps us from what we really love.
24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
25 When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’
26 then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’
27 But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’
28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.
22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Paul elevated love above faith!!
Do we need faith?!
Yes!
It’s a perspective!
Love & faith work hand in hand. As our understanding of Jesus continues to grow, our perspective of Him continues to strengthen & enlarge & encompass more things!
As our perspective of Him grows we CANNOT help but love Him more!
Every day, praise Him for these things.
Every day, meditate on this things. Believe them. Think about the implications of them!
We are co-heirs
The things Christ earned, we get!
There’s not even a human analogy to this!
What illustration could i give?
17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
He earned authority, power, blessings, peace, continual joy, answered prayer, hope, calling, etc… IT’S ALL OURS! 100% with Him!
Equally as though we had earned it!
The moment you think you’re not worthy for Him to answer your prayers, to bless you, to walk in authority, is the moment you have STOPPED giving Him GLORY for SHARING EVERYTHING EQUALLY!
He doesn’t hold our sins against us
His work is FINISHED and COMPLETE!!!
18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
When we sin, is God mad, resentful, hurt, surprised, or feeling betrayed?
He*can’t*be mad, resentful, hurt, surprised, betrayed, etc…
This might be the hardest thing for a human being to ever understand. As humans, we hold things against people for decades!
5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered;
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”
The payment you WOULD owe for your sin HAS BEEN PAID!
The price He paid.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,
7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Why did God send Jesus, even though He loves Him so much? Because Jesus is The only being in all of creation, CAPABLE of redeeming us.
What Jesus did is so great, and displays His glory so magnificently, God says, “it’s so hard to believe that any being could be that good, that loving, THAT courageous, THAT obedient, THAT selfless, THAT giving, if you do it, if you actually believe He really is that amazing, i’ll take that INSTEAD of righteousness.”
We have to spend our lives learning how much better He is than us! How glorious He is!
He did it for absolutely NO REASON except that we could LIVE with Him.