D - Jesus Changes Everything Pt. 2

Last week we began to have a conversation about how Jesus Changes Everything. We saw how Jesus changed a man named Paul last week because we wanted to witness in the Bible what it looks like for someone’s life to be changed by Jesus.

Think about this question: Has Jesus changed your life? He sure has changed mine. And we want others to see but so did others in the Bible, King David’s life was changed by Jesus and he said this in our memory verse:

Psalm 66:5 NIV

5 Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!

Last week we see Jesus change someone’s life but one of the other things that God changes is your relationship with others. More than anything, you’ve got to remember how much God loves you. His love is like your favorite drink and you’ve got a cup and your cup is only but so big and God’s love is unending, so when He begins to pour His love into your cup it is going to overflow and you can’t stop it.

So when you are overflowing with God’s love you’re only option is to take what’s left over and begin to share that love with the people you are around. And then when they start experiencing God’s love, they start sharing God’s love with others as well. And all of a sudden, the people you are in relationships with can also begin to share that love back with you and now everyone’s cup is overflowing with God’s love.

But there are two scenarios when it comes to God’s love. one, you can have all this love and just not share with anyone, but then we become bad stewards of what God has given you and one day God’s gonna ask you: What did you do with all that love? and not only that, people won’t ever know what God has done for you or that you are a follower of Jesus.

The second scenario is, you may have never experienced God’s love before so you’re cup is empty. And because your cup is empty, you can’t share God’s love with anyone.

So, we have God’s love. It overflows in our life, but what in the world does it look like for you and I to share that love with others?

Philippians 2:1–5 NIV

1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Paul, the same guy we talked about last week wrote this letter and he says this:

If you have experienced my love before, then you know what it’s like. Shouldn’t you want others to experience it as well? Of course you should! because the peace that you have that comes from God’s love should be shared with others so that they can experience that same peace and the same gifts that only come from God.

But check this out, Paul says this:

Be like minded

Share God’s love with each other

But what in the world does that look like?

Philippians 2:3–5 NIV

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

All these verses to say: Don’t be selfish with each other. You guys are basically family in Jesus. You’ve got to watch out for each other, and think of everyone else’s needs before you think about your own. Do you know how hard that is? I do, why? Because I am selfish. I like what I like and I want what I want, and sometimes those things blind me from seeing what my friends and family need.

We need to learn to think of others first right? It’s not easy because I see this world through my own eyes and I feel what I feel first. So the last question for today is:

Why should I be selfless?

Just because the Bible says so? Nope, let’s take a look:

Philippians 2:6–8 NIV

6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Paul says: Don’t be selfless because Jesus tells you to be selfless, be selfless because Jesus WAS selfless. See, I heard a sermon on Monday night and the pastor said this:

Jesus never asked us to do anything He didn’t do.

Jesus was not selfish with His love, or His life. He knew you needed saving, and it was hard for him to give up His life, He literally had to leave heaven, which is the most comfortable place ever by the way, and HE came down to earth for you, for me.

How do I know that heaven is the most comfortable place on earth? The Bible tells me that pain doesn’t even exist in heaven. Think about that for a second. God left heaven, made Himself human, so that He could have a relationship with you. Doesn’t that sound like love to you?

Memory verse:

Psalm 66:5 NIV

5 Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!