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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes
March 6, 2022
“Celebrating Our Love”
I John 4:20
20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he
who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom
he has not seen?
21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who
loves God must love his brother also.
Love is still in the air.
For everyone who has followed GP’s services through the
month of February, then you know that we celebrated the month as Love Month.
During that time, in the spirit of love, we did a few commemorative things around
the love theme – one of which was to celebrate love from the virtual pulpit by
taking a popular mainstream love song and relating it to a message of spiritual
significance.
Customarily, the last Sunday in February would have ended our formal celebration,
but leading up to the final Sunday . . .
I received a suggested love song submission
that I thought was so moving and so timely to our celebration until I’m compelled
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to hold over Love Month one more week and use that song title as a fitting close to
this year’s Love Series.
This morning, the love song of choice is one presented by Sister Felicia MillerLowe.
Her song suggestion is: OUR LOVE by Natalie Cole! (Thank you, Sister
Felicia).
The focus of this song, from Natalie’s perspective, is about a strong, mutually
shared love between her and her significant other.
It was a love considered to be
unbending and mighty good.
One that she said “would never die” “because that’s
the way it should be”.
A taste of the lyrics goes like this . . .
You're my morning star shining brightly beside me
And if we keep this love
We will last through all eternity
Just the way we are I love it, love it
It's just the way it should be
'Cause our love will stand tall as the trees
Our love will spread wide as the seas
Our love will shine bright in the night like the stars above
And we'll always be together, our love
My love is surely one thing
You can surely depend on
In times of darkness and fear, I go to you
I know you'll make me strong
You're gonna make me happy
You're gonna make me smile
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In the spirit of today’s message, the theme, OUR LOVE, is a reminder to the GP
Family and the universal Family of God that we [as brothers and sisters] have been
brought together [not by happenstance], but by God’s plan through Jesus Christ to
make us one loving family.
He has given the family members a love to call our
own – our love!
Our Love is a theme that serves as a wakeup call to every Believer to take note of
the precious love the Father has bestowed upon us so that we should be called the
children of God -- worthy to claim His Love as Our Love.
Such LOVE is the place
where every member in God’s family confesses that “Father it is YOUR Love that
gives life and legitimacy to OUR Love.
We are living in a time where it has become so easy to take Family of God love,
church family love, for granted – and to treat it like another day at Flat Rock.
It’s
so easy for us to throw in the towel and become critical as to whether we feel loved
by our church family or not.
Unfortunately, we draw wrong conclusions about the love Christ has called us to in
the Body of Christ and the local church.
Rather than depending on Christ to
establish His love in us, so often the people of God erroneously misjudge one
another by using a worldly standard to determine if they are loved or if anyone
cares.
The love Christ secured for us and bestowed upon us runs deeper than that.
His
expectation is that we first come to personally experience His deep, rich
unconditional love which trumps misdirected “oh woe is me feeling sorrow for
self” fake love.
It’s fake because it is driven by emotions and feelings.
We learned
from another message that love is more than just a second-hand emotion.
If our
love isn’t first His Love, God’s Love, then we can never comprehend how to be
loved or give love to others.
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The Bible says in Ephesians 3:18 that a believer cannot understand the fullness of
God’s love apart from genuine, Spirit-empowered love in his or her own personal
life.
We are called to celebrate the love our God bestowed upon us and to celebrate our
love for each other that Christ made possible.
After God has shown us so richly and so freely His love -- even when we were
dead and trespassed in sin and while we were yet sinners, He demonstrated His
love toward me and you; He drew us near to Himself to impart to us a love we
could and should demonstrate on our own toward one another.
That love is the essence and epitome of OUR LOVE.
How did God do it?
Romans 5:5, 6 is the answer:
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