Love the Lord Your God - Building a Life Part 2
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LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
Building a Life - Week 2
04/09/2023
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like aa wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like aa foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.Matt. 7:24-27 ESV
REVIEW
“Follow me.” - Submission - Death/Sacrifice - Immediacy
Believer vs Follower
Believer
- Acknowledges Jesus is the Son of God
- Knows that Salvation is found through Christ
- Understands that God alone is Holy
- Recognizes God holds ultimate authority and power
- Comprehends God’s Word as Truth
- Is “me” centric
Follower
- Acts on what he/she believes
- Submits to one he/she serves
- Obeys the commands and teachings of the Master
- Lives as the Master lives
- Conforms to God’s will
There is an eternity of difference between a believer in Jesus Christ and a follower of Jesus Christ
Which will you be?
“Love the Lord your God”
Love is not an option for a Follower
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. Matthew 22:34-37 ESV
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 ESV
Love is more than a feeling it is a choice made into the future
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV
Love is made real when tested and lived out regardless of personal consequence
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 1 John 3:16 ESV
A FOLLOWER: Bears all things Believes all things, Hopes all things, Endures all things and. LOVE NEVER STOPS
There is an eternity of difference between having a feeling and loving God as a follower
Which will you choose?
Are you ready to follow?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” John 3:16 ESV
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:7-10 ESV
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 ESV
To become a follower you must:
Hear So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Believe Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved
Repent Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out.
Confess if you confess with your mouth that Jesus . . .you will be saved.
Be baptized Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved
Follow I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life no man may come to the Father except through me