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Today I’m going to talk about the third area of love we need to walk in as
Christians.
If you remember, over the past few weeks we’ve been talking about
following Jesus and how following Him encompasses three main areas.
Everything
we do in our christian life falls into one of these categories.
They are: loving God,
loving ourselves, and loving others.
Last week, when Pastor Autumn talked about
listening to God’s voice and choosing to do what He says, she was actually talking
about something that encompasses all three categories; obedience to God.
John
14:21-24 NKJV “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who
loves Me.
And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him
and manifest Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is
it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered
and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will
love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
24 He who
does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not
Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.”
If we love Jesus (or if we’re trying to love Him), we will also try to grow in
obedience, or in doing what He says.
And as we grow in doing what God says,
Jesus says He’ll manifest Himself to us.
That means Jesus will show up!
He’ll
show up and talk to you when you are going through good times or bad, He’ll
show up in the pain and the pleasure, He’ll speak words of life to You, He’ll bring
His healing, He’ll guide you in truth and love to a place where you are completely
known, loved, and accepted in Him.
He will manifest Himself, or make Himself
known and evident to you as you grow in doing what He says.
He will be with you
so much as you grow in obedience that He says He’ll make a home with you, He’ll
live with You.
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So listening to the voice of God and trying to do what He says and follow
His ways is so important because it actually marks the difference between a
disciple, or an actual follower of Christ, someone who models what it means to be
a Christian; and a cultural, nominal “christian” who maybe has an intellectual view
of what happens after we die but doesn’t walk any differently than the rest of the
secular world.
How many of you know that God isn’t trying to turn us into fat,
happy people with no problems?
He’s trying to turn us into warriors who push back the darkness of evil and
bring the love of God to bear on situations where people are hurting, broken, and
lost.
But we can only do that if we grow in surrender and obedience.
You see, the
power of the Christian life is in the gospel - it’s in the laying down of our pride, our
will, and our ways, and surrendering to God and His ways. 2 Corinthians 12:9
NLT “Each time he said, “My grace is all you need.
My power works best in
weakness.”
So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of
Christ can work through me.”
But my point is that obeying God falls into all three categories; loving God,
loving ourselves, and loving others.
And today I want to focus on loving others and
why it’s so important in the life of a christian to put effort into loving people.
It’s a
huge concept.
It’s not easy to do, but it’s what we’re called to do by Jesus Himself.
Ken Boa writes, “there is no act that begins with the love of God that does not end
with the love of a neighbor.
The sphere of this new commandment is universal.
It
extends first to our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ and beyond this to our
neighbors in this world who do not know Jesus.
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Boa, Kenneth.
Conformed to His Image: Biblical and Practical Approaches to Spiritual Formation, P42-43.
Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan,
2001.
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Loving other people is what we’re called to do as Christians; literally, as you
grow to look more like Jesus, as you hear His voice more clearly and do what He
asks you to do, you’ll find yourself loving others more and doing things from the
motivation of love.
So let’s pray before we jump into scripture today.
Father in Heaven, we
thank you for this time together and for Your word.
We thank you for the immense,
powerful love you have shown to us by sending Jesus to die on the cross for our
sins.
Thank You Jesus for obeying God fully unto suffering and death, and for
grafting us into Your family.
Please speak to each of us today Your heart of love;
Holy Spirit, I ask You to come and move upon us as we open our hearts to Your
kind of love, a love that doesn’t envy, isn’t puffed up or prideful, isn’t rude, doesn’t
seek its own, but that hopes all things, believes all things and endures all things.
Birth Your love in our hearts today and help us to walk according to Your ways and
Your Spirit.
We glorify You in the place today, Lord Jesus.
In Your Name, amen.
Turn with me to 1 John 4. Here, the Holy Spirit is writing to us about the
source of love, or where it comes from and what we should do about it.
Since God
loved us in Christ, we have no excuse not to love one another.
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