A Heart Ablaze (2)

For Your Glory

What Better Way To Give, than to rekindle our love for Jesus?

A Heart Ablaze

· Over the past two weeks, we have been looking at A Heart that is

1. to kindle† — to cause to start burning. See also ἅπτω, περιάπτω. Related Topics: Fire; Brushwood.

Jas 3:5 ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει·

2. to be kindled (state)† — to be or become set afire. Related Topics: Fire; Brushwood.

Lk 12:49 καὶ τί θέλω εἰ ἤδη ἀνήφθη;

· Ablaze(very brightly coloured or lighted.

"New England is ablaze with colour in autumn"

· filled with anger or another strong emotion.

"his eyes were ablaze with excitement" Ablaze: full of energy, interest, or emotion:

Her eyes were ablaze with excitement. radiant with light or emotion

his face all ablaze with excitement for Jesus.

Walk in Christ’s Commandments (2 John 4–6)

John defines what walking in truth looks like by reminding them of an old commandment: love one another. While the command is to love one another, expressing that love is only possible by following Jesus’ commands. This will keep the “truth walkers” united against possible false teaching.

2 John 4 After explaining what “truth and love” are, John expresses pleasure that some of the church members are walking in truth, which is a command of God.

2 John 5 John re-states a commandment of Jesus from the Gospel of John (John 13:34–35; see also 1 Jn 2:7, 3:11). The community walking in truth must love one another.

2 John 6 The command to “love one another” is only possible by obeying Jesus’ commands. The church “loves one another” by actively engaging in the self-sacrificial love commanded by Jesus.

For Your Glory(Honouring God With Your Life)

We Respond to God’s Grace by Declaring His Glory

PSALM 86:8–13

Some people view God’s grace as a reason to treat sin casually, but this distorts Scripture’s teaching.

Those who rightly understand and receive God’s grace desire to praise him. In verses 8–13 a new section of petitions begins in which David declares that there is no god like his God (vv. 8, 10). Will we declare this morning that there is no god like our God.

In light of God’s supremacy, honor and glory belong exclusively to him. This was not only true for Israel but also for “all the nations you [God] have made” (v. 9). David acknowledged God’s supremacy over all creation and all the peoples of the world.

In verse 11 David’s desire to glorify God went beyond his words. He wanted his life to reflect the same truth. David asks for an “undivided mind” to fear God because he knows how easy it is to have a divided loyalty between God and other things. Money is one of the biggest stumbling blocks. According to Jesus, your heart will either belong to money or to God: “For where yourtreasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt 6:21). If you want to know where yourheart is, then look at where you spend yourmoney. On the other hand, a heart that’s in love with God will live for God and his glory.

The main reason we seek God’s grace is not to make life easier or to impress others. We ask for grace because we are needy and because God alone deserves our praise and honor and glory. Here’s how Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 10:31: “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.”

In the final section of this psalm, verses 14–17, David asks fordeliverance from those seeking to kill him (v. 14). Once again David grounds his appeal in God’s grace (v. 15). However, it’s also worth noting how David ends this appeal for God’s glory.

It’s not simply that he wants to save his own skin, though he certainly hopes to escape death. David wants his enemies to see God’s hand at work and so “be put to shame” (v. 17). In other words, David wants his enemies to see the supremacy of God. We’re reminded of the Lord’s purpose in sending the plagues on Egypt:

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may do these miraculous signs of mine among them, and so that you may tell your son and grandson how severely I dealt with the Egyptians and performed miraculous signs among them, and you will know that I am the Lord.” (Exod 10:1–2)

God is chiefly concerned with his own glory (Isa 42:8; Ezek 20:22), so it is fitting that David would be concerned with God’s glory, even when he feared for his own life.[1]

God pours His Blessing When We Honour God With Your Life through our obedience and worship:

Joel 3:13-15

13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow— For their wickedness is great.”

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and moon will grow dark, And the stars will diminish their brightness.

New Testament

Mark 16:15-20

15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

19 After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. 20 Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

Manifested in Seeking Him. So. of Sol. 3:2. Obeying Him. Jno. 14:15, 21, 23. Ministering to Him. Mat. 27:55, with Mat. 25:40. Preferring Him to all others. Mat. 10:37. Taking up the cross for Him. Mat. 10:38. A characteristic of saints. So. of Sol. 1:4. An evidence of adoption. Jno. 8:42.

Should be Sincere. Eph. 6:24. With the soul. So. of Sol. 1:7. In proportion to our mercies. Luke 7:47. Supreme. Mat. 10:37. Ardent. So. of Sol. 2:5. So. of Sol. 8:6. Unquenchable. So. of Sol. 8:7. Even unto death. Acts 21:13. Rev. 12:11. Promises to. 2 Tim. 4:8. Jas. 1:12. Increase of, to be prayed for. Phi. 1:9. Pray for grace to those who have. Eph. 6:24.

They who have Are loved by the Father. Jno. 14:21, 23. Jno. 16:27. Are loved by Christ. Pro. 8:17. Jno. 14:21. Enjoy communion with God and Christ. Jno. 14:23. Decrease of, rebuked. Rev. 2:4. Want of, denounced. 1 Cor. 16:22. The wicked, destitute of. Psa. 35:19, with Jno. 15:18, 25. Exemplified. Joseph of Arimathea, Mat. 27:57–60. Penitent woman, Luke 7:47. Certain women, Luke 23:28. Thomas, Jno. 11:16. Mary Magdalene, Jno. 20:11. Peter, Jno. 21:15–17. Paul, Acts 21:13.

Romans 11:36 “To whom be glory for ever.” This should be the single desire of the Christian. All other wishes must be…

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