REGAIN PURPOSE

Matthew 22:34–40 CSB

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together. And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test him: “Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”

Main Idea: God designed every one of us to live with purpose.

Key Question: How are you going to regain purpose?

1. Regain purpose with God. (v. 37)

Matthew 22:37 CSB

He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

613 laws = 248 positive + 365 negative

Mark 12:32–33 CSB

Then the scribe said to him, “You are right, teacher. You have correctly said that he is one, and there is no one else except him. And to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 CSB

“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.

Joshua 22:5 CSB

Only carefully obey the command and instruction that Moses the Lord’s servant gave you: to love the Lord your God, walk in all his ways, keep his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.”

2. Regain purpose with others. (v. 39)

Matthew 22:39 CSB

The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

1 John 3:10–11 CSB

This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister. For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another,

1 John 3:15–16 CSB

Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

1 John 4:7–9 CSB

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

APPLICATION FOR 2022

Love

Love God = Spend time with Him. Spend time in corporate worship.

Love People = Spend time with people. Don’t hurry or rush past people.

Serve

Serve God = Active involvement in at least one ministry in the church. Go on a mission trip this year.

Serve People = Local outreach and care ministries. Be involved in the community.

1/30 — Mission Fair & 2/27 — SBCR Involvement Fair

Invite

Invite God = pray!!!!

Invite Others = Share the gospel and invite people to church!!!

My leadership is directly tied to those praying for me. I want to ask 30 men to sign up for one day and month to pray from me.