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Falling In Love With Jesus
Contributed by Billy Ricks on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: When faced with a barrage of questions from the Sadducees, Pharisees and Herodians. They asked political, religious, and ethical questions. However, the master Jesus answered the life question. What is the most important commandment of all. Love God a
II. The failing performance of loving God
God’s commands call for complete obedience. Partial obedience is complete disobedience.
Romans 3.23 says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God! This simply means that there has never been anyone outside of Jesus Christ who could in any way love God perfectly!
What we see when we look into the mirror of God’s word is a need to completely trust in what God has done in Jesus Christ.
I wish that I could convince people that as Christians what we feel is not as important as what we believe!
What is God’s great concern, His great commandment? That man would make God his chief concern. There is way too much weight placed on performance in the church today. The best and most spiritual pastors are those that have tens of thousands in their congregations with millions of dollars in their budgets. Attendance seems to be the measure of Christian spiritual greatness.
However, God is searching for people that realize they can’t perform to God’s standards and that they would stop trying to live the Christian life and let Christ live it through them.
Galatians 2.20 (turn to and read or quote)
You have probably read or heard the serenity prayer. But have you ever heard it or read it in its entirety.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Love God with all you heart, with every decision love God, Love God with all your soul, with every emotion love God, with all you mind, or might, strength, with all you thoughts.
What we find as we examine our life is that we cannot completely obey this commandment. There are times of weakness, times of neglect, times of distraction. It was because of our inability to obey the simplest but most important of all commandments that Jesus came.
III. The transforming power of loving God
Love your neighbor as yourself.
How many would say today I love God, I Love the Lord Jesus Christ, I love His Holy Spirit? But how many today rise early in the morning and bow all of your being before the supreme of the universe? How many are concerned with the neighbors that live only a few hundred yards or only part of a mile away? Sadly today in our church in our state and world many people honor God with their lips but with their life dishonor Him.
One of the greatest things about truly loving God is that it results in truly loving people. Do you know what is sad? Living in Columbia for 2 years I have had 1 church visit my home. The church was knocking on doors for a fundraiser.
What about the love we are to have for the lost. Those that are completely unaware of God, or those that neglect God or reject God. Does our love for God result in love for others?
