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Matt 22.34-40
/Matthew 22:34-40 (ESV)/
*/34 /*/But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
*35 *And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
*36 *“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” *37 *And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
*38 *This is the great and first commandment.
*39 *And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.
*40*On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
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Prayer
*The Love of God as it is poured into the hearts of men and women.*
Story : Rings on Flight Simulator
This in a way illustrates the Christians journey through life.
If we were left to go alone, we would crash land, in fact we would not even be able to fly!
But we’re not left on our own.
We don’t have to rely on our own devices through life’s journey.
God God gave us guides to help us live the Christian life.
God sent us Christians to follow, even more: He sent Christ himself.
Bible compares Christian’s life to a walk.
[Genesis 6:9] Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation.
Noah *walked* with God
[Deuteronomy 5:33] You shall *walk* in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded
[Philippians 3:17 Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who *walk* according to the example you have in us.
Christian life = journey, walk in the park.
NB to think correctly, there are right and wrong ways to think about the Christian journey.
Some Christians view it as their success, their spiritual fitness, their skill that allows them to achieve spiritual success.
Christians who hold to this, fall in the trap of legalism.
Actually 3 kinds of legalism:
1.
Most dangerous by far.
People who practice this kind of legalism believe that you can by fulfilling law, by working hard enough at it, earn God’s favour and God’s salvation.
This type of legalism stresses that I must DO something to gain God’s favour.
2.
Second kind is more like the Pharisees.
It goes something like this: they would say: This is law of God and his precepts, but we will add a few more to make sure it is that the right way is clear.
The Pharisees:said if you do what God says And you do what we say, you will be OK
3.
Know G saved.
But they think like this: G saved me, now it is time for me start doing something to repay him for what he did for me.
The Bible says: Pray , so I pray, the bible says tithe so I tithe, the bible says witness so I witness.
I do what the Word says Their concept of the Christian life is: God did something for me, so now I must do something from my side.
A great deal of the popular Christian books that you would find in bookshops today follow this line of thinking.
Full of techniques and tools to live a proper Christian life
5 ways to form edifying friendships
6 ways to become a godly leader
7 ways to a spiritually fulfilled marriage
8 ways to a better prayer life
After they gave given you a list of tools and tips, they also give you a list of the afflictions of our current society, and they say: it is time for you to stop downward spiral that inflicts us.
It is time for you to do something, to get to work, to assume responsibility, it is time for you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and resolve to go and sin no more.
Says: Some of you are doing bad things – stop it.
Some of you are doing good things keep it up for rest of life.
Furthermore if you are doing bad things, resolve to stop, get up in the morning, pray, commit yourself to him, give yourself 100% to him, and you will be on right path.
To certain extend this is correct.
We should commit yourself to God.
We should pray in the morning and everything else.
Problem = most Christians already know this.
They know that they should give themselves to God.
And the relentless stress what you and I OUGHT TO DO obscures the fact that Christian life is not that of essentially lawkeeping but one essentially of love.
When you stress that you and i should do and do and do, why it is that some do not get up and pray.
It is because we don’t want to!
Why it that we do not succeed in resolving to stop sinning?
It is because we like to sin! Whys is it that we do not succeed is following God 100%?
It is because we like to be double minded and not to focus on God.
We like to have little areas of our lives where we do not want God to enter.
We like to lead the life we lead.
Problem with these books are that it is full of good advice but it lacks nearly any reference to the importance of grace.
Law., law, law and little or nothing about grace.
It says if you want to be a good Christian , be perfect But then if you don’t succeed you feel defeated, Law becomes a burden, you fail, land in despair.
But: God has a better way.
It is true that he gives us laws and that we have to submit to them.
It’s true that obedience is important.
But obedience is only one facet of Christian life, and not even the first facet.
Gods love and G’s grace always precedes his commands.
What does John say?
He says in 1 John 4:10
/In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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Paul says: it is the love of Christ which compels us to live not for ourselves but for God.
Elsewhere Paul says: It is the grace of God (not the law of God) it is the grace of God that teaches us to say no to unworldly passions.
I want you understand this clearly, we need the law of God.
The law of God is necessary for us to know our sin.
But the Law of God, by itself does not change people; it is only God through his grace that changes lives.
Business world: commands, rules can’t change people.
Rules can only change behaviour.
They will obey rules in the office because they fear if they don’t, the will get fired.
Rules can’t change people, only God can change people.
Root of Christian living is God’s prior love awakening in us our returning love.
It is the fact that god loved us first, that creates in us the ability to return this love to him!
Obey not in order to gain his favour but because of his favour.
Because he loves we obey.
Before God gave is commandments to the Israelites, he first said remember how I loved you, how I brought you out of Egypt.
Because I did this, because I loved you, because I carried you through the desert, Now hear my commandments.
Now obey me!
Then you will be my treasured possession.
It goes like this: God’s love and redemption, then God’s commands then love and redemption again.
Now all of this may be somewhat familiar to everyone here.
We all had certain reasons about why we obey god.
Reasons for obedience
1, Way of wisdom.
Sensible.
God created all, made me, so surely it is wise doing things his way.
2, Way of trust.
God loves us and will never mislead us we should obey as he directs and He will make it work.
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Way of gratitude.
God has done so much for me and I because am grateful, I am now I should do something in return, give myself.
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