The Four-Dimensional Love of God that Transforms Our Heart
Dr. George Bannister
Developing Your Love For Christ • Sermon • Submitted
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· 3 viewsThe heart of the believer is transformed by experiencing the four-dimensional love of God.
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INTRODUCTION:
A- Last week we looked at Jesus’ command that we develop and demonstrate our love for Him ().
30 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’
B- Today, we will try to unpack the way to accomplish the first two parts of that command.
1- How do we develop the ability to love the Lord with all of our heart?
2- Accomplishing this is the key to loving Him with all of our soul.
3- In order for us to get a grip on the issue of loving the Lord with all of our heart and soul, the love of God must get a grip on us!
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4- Two passages in scripture (one written by Paul and one spoken by Jesus) can help us to be gripped by the love of God.
TS: Notice how these passages shed light upon the four-dimensional love of God in a way that it grips and transforms the believer’s heart!
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16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.
17 Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.
18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
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16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
Notice that there are three keys to having God’s four-dimensional love grip and transform us:
Understand His love (Vs. 18)
Experience His love (vs. 19)
Grow in His love (vs. 17)
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18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
A- God’s love encompasses the whole wide world! ().
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
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18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
A- God loved the world so much that he was willing to give his one and only Son for it. ()
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
1- He Himself became a man, to suffer as a man, to taste death for every man (), to die in our stead (), to receive our penalty, and our shame, and the judgment of God in His own heart and soul and body! (). Jesus Christ, the second of the Godhead, became a man that He might live a man’s life, be tried by a man’s trials, that He might suffer a man’s sufferings (), that He might die in a man’s stead, that He might be raised to bring us a trophy of grace out of the tomb and out of sin and out of death (). That’s the point of this thing: that’s the length to which God Himself did go, that He became a man, a begotten man, a born man, a man of flesh and of blood, that He might deliver us who were in bondage to sin and to death ().
6 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
20 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.
21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man.
22 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life.
23 But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.
15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.
18 Christ suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.
2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.
7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form,
8 he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
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18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
A- God’s love is so deep that he sacrificed his Son for the most depraved, hell-bound sinner to prevent them from perishing! ()
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
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18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
A- God’s love not only keeps the sinful rebel from perishing, but lifting their eternal destination to heaven. ()
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
CONCLUSION: