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Check your love

I. Opening

A. Honor

1. God, Pulpit and Pastor Dan and Sallie

2. privilege of ministering

3. What I have learn, my journey

4. Read Matthew 24

a. The 7 Woes by Pastor Dan

II. Rome,

A. Trip, What is Rome today vs 60s

B. Paul, Peter, backstory of Times

C. Nero – Circus of Nero on Vatican Hill

D. Obelisk

E. 2 Timothy 4 

F. Demas

1. Love

2. Betrayal felt by Paul, feel for him.

3. Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you

4. Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers

5. If I wanted to learn from someone it would be Paul

a. Blues

b. Those who are Gone

III. Heart grown cold

A. Demonstration of Heart, Ice, world

B. 2 timothy 3

1. Situation in our family

2. Work

3. Money

4. Our past 

a. abused

b. lies

Are you drifting because you love comfort, approval, or success more than Christ?

i. 1 John 2:15–17 (ESV)** 

(A) > *“Do not love the world or the things in the world… For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father…”* 

(B) > → **Mirror**: What do your **time, money, and affections** reveal?Subsection iii

ii. Next level

IV. Road to Emmaus

A. Followers

1. Sad

2. Blind

3. Sharing arguing

4. On the road- our road- our jouerney, the road of our lives

5. They didn’t recognize Jesus

a. Cleopas even ask him are you the only stranger – the only one that doesn’t know.

b. Do we know or do we think we know

c. Do we really know Jesus or have we made an image or idol

i. If Jesus appeared right here would we recognize him?

B. Jesus

1. Met with them (prayer)-he wants to walk with us, talk to us, abide with us

a. Jesus meets us on our road

b. Your road, your experience is not my experience and vice versa

2. Discussed the Word -prophets all pointed, know the word, know Jesus.  Opens our understanding.  Our experience our walk is the not the same as your experience, you walk.

3. Open their Eyes-Jesus revealed

4. We are his workmanship created for his workmanship. Allow him to reveal, to lead us on our walk, on our life, our journey to what he has for us.  That same hour even though it was dark they went back. Separated now back.

C. Did not our heart Burn

V. Finish DEMONSTRATION-Love Him

A. Love him by Worship

B. Love him Pray, thanksgiving

C. Love him being in the In the word

D. Love him by pick up the Cross daily-   die daily

E. Love him Relationship, our walk, our journey

VI.  how much you are loved- God is love

A. 100% vs 0% Love

B. Sin 0% vs 100%

C. The X - Closer you are to him the more you hate sin, the closer you are going to love

D. I am convinced that Spiritual Maturity is measured in love

E. Judgement day – did you Love

F. Love is the greatest Gift- Because it is God himself, showed you his love

G. 1 Cor 12 gifts a better way a   then we get the Love chapter

H. Paul- Compelled to

VII. Story of my mom

A. Sister

1. Compared childhood stories

2. The Patron curse

3. How did you come out so Good

B. Mom’s poster and pictures- loved God

C. My cross- strong Italian influence

D. Moms’ death

E. Died so I could live

F. I did everything thinking she was watching me – my love for her and my desire to be with her in heaven motivated me to be good.

G. Coming to Jesus.