Going 'all In' In Loving Him - Part 2 Series

Going All In, In Loving Him – part 2

OKAY – today is week 6 in our message series ‘Getting Better, At What Jesus Said Matters Most.’

UNDERSTAND B/S – there is nothing more important in the church and in our lives then, ‘ Getting Better At’…

• Loving God

• Loving our neighbor, and

• Loving ourselves (then being emotionally healthy and spiritually mature)

NOW – I want you to know that I am totally serious about this concept of emotionally healthy spirituality… BECAUSE – the truth is you cannot be spiritually mature without being emotionally healthy.

That is why in early May I will travel to Queens, in New York city to join with 350 other church leaders from around the country to attend a conference with Peter Scazzero about how Emotionally Healthy Spirituality to our church.

I am really pumped up about it because I am convinced that broken people (in our church and in our community) we be made whole!

AND LISTEN – like I said last week we will NEVER STOP ‘pursuing’ getting better at what Jesus says matters most, because the truth is…

THAT IT’S UPON – these 3 things commandments that all the law and the prophets hinge.

AND BECAUSE – getting better at them is the doorway to living the life God always intended that you live.

OKAY… here’s the deal.

There were dreams, thoughts, and intentions…

There was A LIFE that God had in mind when He breathed life into your body, and as He began forming you in your mother’s womb (1 cell from your mom and 1 cell from your dad),

A LIFE – of freedom, joy, contentment, purpose, satisfaction, meaning and fulfillment.

BUT TRAGICALLY – it is…

A LIFE - that far too many people who claim Jesus and walk through the doors of the church, leave this earth without ever experiencing in all it’s fullness.

AND – the reason why, is because between you and that life is a door…

A closed door, that is a barrier, that is separating you from that life… BUT YET – it is always just beyond that door.

NOW – the good news is that this door has 3 hinges on it that will allow it to swing open freely…

AND B/S…

• Loving God, is the top hinge

• Loving yourself, if the middle hinge

• Loving your neighbor, is the bottom hinge

OKAY – here’s the deal.

AND LISTEN – this deal is for real…

Getting Better at loving God (as you should), loving your neighbor (as He intends) and loving yourself (as He commands)… IS – the doorway to the life you always wanted to live! SO – I said last week, let’s just keep working those hinges…

TURN – right/left, and say… “Let’s work those hinges”

NOW – we spent the first 3 weeks of this series talking about the middle hinge… “the commandment of Jesus for you , to love yourself.” AND – in those 3 weeks you learned that to love yourself, to work that middle hinge, you must…

• Plunge The Depths Of The Father’s Love

• Push Through Insecurity

• Accept That You Loving Yourself Is Essential Not Selfish

• Go Back In Order To Move Forward

• Use 1 Corinthians 13 As A Template For Loving Yourself

• Let God’s Approval Become Your Validation

AND UNDERSTAND – it is my intent to remind you of these 6 things again and again, again… to burn them into your heart and your mind… SO THAT – anytime you find yourself feeling bad about ‘you’, all you need to do is pull one of those bad boys out… and execute it, apply it… GET IT?

AND THEN – in week 4 we begin to talk about that top hinge, getting better at loving God, in a conversation where I tried to make the case that God is worthy of your love because…

God is GREAT and God is GOOD

AND LAST – as we continued working that top hinge…

we began unpacking a conversation called,

“Going All In, In Loving Him”

A conversation about falling for, about falling in love with God.

AND - we said that…

Going All In, In Loving Him

Begins with…

Accepting His Proposal

BEGINS – with saying ‘YES” to the star breathing, ocean holding, universe creating God’s extravagant proposal.

ONE – of the questions we discussed in Life Groups this week was to discuss some of the awesome proposals we heard of or experienced it…

I shared about one I read about in Bob Goff’s (fun to read book, Love Does)… in chapter called “Ryan in Love.”

• Bob and His wife live in a home right on the water, near a path that people often walk on… Well on day a guy named Ryan walks up from the path to where Bob was sitting on his bad porch.