Walk in Love

Truthing in love

Christianity is a lifestyle as well as something that happens at a point in time

Love, Light, Wisdom

Love -> Truth -> Wisdom

Not Truth -> Love -> Wisdom

Abortion

Imitate the uniqueness of God’s love

Watching your parents

Christ’s sacrifice for us to God

Love that sacrifices and actually does something.

Love that knows what is ultimate and seeks to please Him

Romans 8:31–39 ESV

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Does your reading of Scripture help you adore God more or burden you with things to do?

Your walk talks louder than your talk talks

Avoid the substitutes for God’s love

Sexual immorality - Amy’s experience in line - Love is being given the “best experience” no matter the rules.

Impurity - treating people as objects or lowering their true value to something like junk - Love and honesty doesn’t matter. I do.

Covetousness - Love is getting what I want or having what everyone else has.

Transgender - everyone else feels comfortable so I must

Homosexuality - everyone else gets to express their lust so I must too

We shouldn’t do these things. Nor should we joke about them because we have received grace and should be thankful for the love we have received.

Don’t be deceived about true love

A lot of voices saying different things

Wind in Boundary Waters

What deserves judgment more than lying about love truly is?

“But I haven’t experienced true love” - Yes, you can if you haven’t … in Jesus.

So walk in God’s love and imitate him when you have opportunity

And the quote from J. C. Ryle. Thinking along these lines this week, I went to his book on Thoughts for Young Men. And he talks about the fact that God is no respecter of persons and that God is not measuring us in relationship to the things that we’re tempted to use to measure ourselves: intellect, finance, status in society, and so on. Ryle says to the young men who are his readers—he says, “You see, God is only measuring in relationship to our souls.”[25] And he says, “Do not forget this. Keep in view, morning, noon, and night, the interests of your soul. Rise up each day desiring that it may prosper”—that is, your soul. “That it may prosper,—lie down each evening inquiring of yourself whether it has really [got on]. Remember Zeuxis, the great painter of old.” Never heard of him apart from here. “Remember Zeuxis, the great painter of old. When men asked him why he labored so intensely, and took such extreme pains with every picture, his simple answer was, ‘I paint for eternity.’”[26] “I paint for eternity.”

Do not be ashamed to be like him. Set your [immortal] soul before your mind’s eye, and when [people] ask you why you live as you do, answer them in his spirit, “I live for my soul.” Believe me, the day is fast [coming] when the soul will be the one thing men will think of, and the only question of importance will be this, “Is my soul lost or [is my soul] saved?”[27]