SF335 - THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO (Matthew 22 37-38)
@PAGE NUMBER = SF335
@TITLE = THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO
@LEVEL ONE = Matthew 22:37‑38
@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION
@LEVEL TWO = What Is The Most Important Thing We Can Do?
@LEVEL FOUR = Mother ‑ care for her children
@LEVEL FOUR = Father ‑ provide for his family
@LEVEL FOUR = Politician ‑ build a greater goverment
@LEVEL FOUR = Police officer ‑ make our city safe from criminals
@LEVEL FOUR = General ‑ build a great military
@LEVEL FOUR = Teacher ‑ educate our children
@LEVEL FOUR = Preacher ‑ build a great church
@LEVEL TWO = That is what this man asked Jesus
@LEVEL TWO = Notice what He said...
@PAGE NUMBER = Page 2
@LEVEL ONE = 1A. THERE IS NO GREATER CALLING THAN TO LOVE GOD
@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Because Jesus Is Your Life
@SCRIPTURE = Deu 30:19‑20 (NIV)<R>This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life,...
@LEVEL TWO = 2B. Because God Has Demonstrated His Love For You
@SCRIPTURE = 1 John 4:9‑10 (NIV)<R>This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
@LEVEL TWO = 3B. Therefore You Need To Prove Your Love For God
@LEVEL THREE = 1C. Listen to his voice
@LEVEL THREE = 2C. Hold fast to Him
@LEVEL THREE = 3C. Obey Him
@SCRIPTURE = John 14:21 (NIV)<R>Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
@LEVEL THREE = 4C. Love one another
@SCRIPTURE = John 13:35 (NIV)<R>By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
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@LEVEL ONE = 2A. THERE IS NO GREATER HONOR THAN TO BE LOVED BY GOD
@LEVEL TWO = 1B. God Does Allow For Any Competitors
@SCRIPTURE = Mat 6:24 (NIV)<R>"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
@LEVEL TWO = 2B. God Always Takes The Initiative
@LEVEL THREE = 1C. No one seeks God on his on initiative
@SCRIPTURE = Rom 3:10‑12 (NIV)<R>As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."
@SCRIPTURE = John 15:16 (NIV)<R>You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit‑‑fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
@LEVEL THREE = 2C. God draws us to himself
John 6:44 (NIV)
@SCRIPTURE = "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
@SCRIPTURE = Hosea 11:4 (NIV)<R>I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.
@LEVEL TWO = 3B. God Works Through Those Who Love Him
@LEVEL THREE = 1C. In personal ways
@LEVEL FOUR = Moses
@LEVEL THREE = 2C. In practical way
@LEVEL FOUR = Manna for the children of Israel
@LEVEL FOUR = Fed the 5,000
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@LEVEL ONE = APPLICATION
@ILL TITLE = $3 Worth of God
@ILL TITLE = Wilbur Reese writes with biting sarcasm:
@POEM TEXT = I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please
@POEM TEXT = Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.
@POEM TEXT = I don't want enough of him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant.
@POEM TEXT = I want ecstasy, not transformation.
@POEM TEXT = I want the warmth of the womb not a new birth.
@POEM TEXT = I want about a pound of the eternal in a paper sack.
@POEM TEXT = I'd like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
@LEVEL TWO = How much of God do you want?