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Love God Totally Series
Contributed by Damien Saylor on Jun 15, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: It is easy to lose sight of God in our lives. It closely relates to a Doctor’s prescription we forget to take. Gradually our health starts to decline. The longer we are away from God. The worse our Spiritual Health gets!
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- Today we’re looking at the first & greatest decision we ever make.
- It is to Love God totally.
- I know that in life it’s easy to say I love this person, or I love so & so, but it’s just
words.
- The power of the phrase, I love you, is a statement of commitment. It’s not
something that’s to be used lightly.
- Now, think of the power, or destruction that comes when you tell God you love
him, but it’s just words.
- In the beginning of a healthy Spiritual life, it begins with loving God totally.
- So Let’s begin,
- A rich young ruler comes up to Jesus in Matthew 22:, & he asks a question in
verse 36.
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
- The greatest Commandment is, Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, & mind.
-Prayer
Q- Can you imagine what your week would look like if it were without God?
- This is what the days of the week would be called.
> A Weekly Reminder (www.smilegodlovesyou.org)
Without GOD, our week would be:
Sinday, Mournday, Tearsday, Wasteday, Thirstday, Fightday & Shatterday.
Remember seven days WITHOUT GOD makes One WEAK!!
- Each day would be a day of sorrow & chaos.
- Moses sets the model for a productive life. One that isn’t falling apart (even if it may
Not look like it is), but it is lifted/supported in the nurturing arms of out Lord!
- Here’s What he says in Deuteronomy 10:12.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Q- Why do you think a person heavily addicted to drugs, or alcohol are so easily
picked out of a crowd?
- They’re picked out because, we can see their life falling apart from under the god
they’ve put themselves under.
- For many of these people under the ruse of I’m okay as long as I’ve got my
drugs, or alcohol.
- They took God’s name Jehovah Jireh (the Lord will provide) & gave it to this
created substance.
- It became their God!
- Yes, the list of false gods keeps going, but I think you get my point of if
God’s not first, you’ll never be.
- Now, I want to give you an entirely different perspective.
- We easily Judge a person by their outward appearance.
- The common belief of the Israelites was, if you were doing well it was because You
were right with God & He was blessing you. If you were bad off, God was cursing
you for sin.
- We know the way it worked for Job. He was righteous, but his life looked like it was
falling apart.
- The same can be said about Jeremiah, the weeping prophet.
- Besides Job, I cannot think of a Godly man that looked more depressed & cursed by
God.
- Jeremiah was called, not to try & turn the people from their sinful way, but to
prepare them for judgement!
- They would see famine, would be plundered, and taken captive by foreigners
who would exile them to a foreign land
- Jeremiah was constantly rejected by the people of Judah he loved and reached
out to.
- God had called him to preach, & forbade him to marry or have children.
- So, he lived alone, he ministered alone, he was poor, ridiculed, and rejected by his
people.
Q- Although his spiritual faith and strength was strong, can you imagine the
depression he had to have suffered?
- Listen to Jeremiah’s words & realize how close they sound like Job’s.
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Q- If people don’t see God’s Joy in me, how am I a good witness?
- Most of my sermons echo the thought of witnessing, & people are
watching/taking note of us.
- Today we’re going deeper than just our outward appearances.
Q- Do people see how much you love God?
- Job never cursed God, Although he had lost it all.
- Jeremiah never lost his faith/hope in God.
