Watching closely: love explained
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
In 1 John 4:9-10 the word of God explains the love. It explains why God creates, because he does. He creates people to love; he creates us to love one another, and to love him as family. We ask ourselves why we are free to choose, and that is because God wants a loving response from us. We might ask ourselves why Christ died? It is because his love for us causes him to seek a salvation to the problem of sin, his love expresses itself to us forevermore.
Nothing sinful or evil can exist in God's presence. Where there is perfect love there is also perfect goodness. 1 Peter 2:24 and Romans 5:18 both tell us that we are to be acquainted with God's love by a his loving sacrifice for us. That brings about guns desire to put together a plan of salvation for us. 1 John 1:18 tells us that God has already made known everything that we need to understand in order to find him 1 John 4:8 tells us"whoever does not love God does not know God, because God is love". It is important for us to understand that our world has a shadow and a very selfish view of what love is. It has turned guns definition of love around and has contaminated our understanding of love. The world thinks that love is what makes a person feel good and that is it is all right to sacrifice moral principles and other rights to obtain sexual love.
Real love is like God; holy just, and perfect. If we truly know God we will love in the same way that he loves. For the last three years or so you have heard me speaking about how we as a church have been spoon fed the things that this world wants for us to believe about Christ. While it's very unfortunate we need to understand that the world has crept into our churches and in many of the teachings that various church leadership's have begun to adopt. We have never been taught to think or study for ourselves what the truth of Scripture is for our lives. We have been told instead what we believe through issues of doctrines and creed but we still have not been free to think openly about our own relationship with Christ and what that has meant for our lives. That kind of thinking makes us very shallow spiritually, and I believe it is time for us to uncover some of the real basic areas that make us into real Christians.
The world is always watching us, and in fact a great number of people who set beside us in our church services are watching us very closely to see what it really means to be a part of the kingdom of God. Let's look for a moment at some of what God has said that this world, and even followers of Christ may be looking at us to see. I would imagine that some of you are watching me pretty closely as well and that's a very good thing. Many of us do not realize how many others are watching our lives. If we look in the book of Romans we will see many questions asked of us. People will be looking still for sin to pop up into our lives, they will be looking to see if the old habits that we have had before we came to Christ still exist within us. Some will be looking for God's righteous judgment on our own lives. Some will be looking to see if we follow the letter of the law. Others will be looking to see if God is going to be faithful to his word to us, and most certainly they will look to see if we are going to be faithful to him. While the word tells us that no one is righteous, it is still difficult to understand God's forgiveness of sin. Not only is it difficult for others to forgive sin concerning our lives, but it is difficult for us to forgive sin within our lives. Sometimes when were not strong enough to forgive we must lean on the same kind of faith that Abraham showed which justified him by faith. It is our faith and our willingness to give away control to the Holy Spirit within us that will bring peace and joy to our hearts. The Scripture tells us that this is death through Adam, and life through Christ. We become dead to sin, and alive in Christ. All the time we spend in struggling with sin our faith causes us to be slaves to righteousness, and our life becomes spiritual and not physical. The word of God tells us that we are more than conquerors as we give up this temporary promise of life for a guaranteed life and future glory in the kingdom of heaven with Christ.
I want to begin to explore more of these basics in our Christian faith with you so that you might be able to share this word with others more easily many Christians today use their faith in God as though it were a cane or walking stick. They use God as a support in times of unbalance or need, but also as a weapon on others in the real faith must be found in something bigger than yourself that cannot be manipulated by you or changed to fit your desires and whims. Our faith in God must come not from our own control, but from a trust in a power that we allowed to control us. A question for you do we wield our faith through self-control or does God control us? May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
In 1 John 4:9-10 the word of God explains the love. It explains why God creates, because he does. He creates people to love; he creates us to love one another, and to love him as family. We ask ourselves why we are free to choose, and that is because God wants a loving response from us. We might ask ourselves why Christ died? It is because his love for us causes him to seek a salvation to the problem of sin, his love expresses itself to us forevermore.
Nothing sinful or evil can exist in God's presence. Where there is perfect love there is also perfect goodness. 1 Peter 2:24 and Romans 5:18 both tell us that we are to be acquainted with God's love by a his loving sacrifice for us. That brings about guns desire to put together a plan of salvation for us. 1 John 1:18 tells us that God has already made known everything that we need to understand in order to find him 1 John 4:8 tells us"whoever does not love God does not know God, because God is love". It is important for us to understand that our world has a shadow and a very selfish view of what love is. It has turned guns definition of love around and has contaminated our understanding of love. The world thinks that love is what makes a person feel good and that is it is all right to sacrifice moral principles and other rights to obtain sexual love.
Real love is like God; holy just, and perfect. If we truly know God we will love in the same way that he loves. For the last three years or so you have heard me speaking about how we as a church have been spoon fed the things that this world wants for us to believe about Christ. While it's very unfortunate we need to understand that the world has crept into our churches and in many of the teachings that various church leadership's have begun to adopt. We have never been taught to think or study for ourselves what the truth of Scripture is for our lives. We have been told instead what we believe through issues of doctrines and creed but we still have not been free to think openly about our own relationship with Christ and what that has meant for our lives. That kind of thinking makes us very shallow spiritually, and I believe it is time for us to uncover some of the real basic areas that make us into real Christians.
The world is always watching us, and in fact a great number of people who set beside us in our church services are watching us very closely to see what it really means to be a part of the kingdom of God. Let's look for a moment at some of what God has said that this world, and even followers of Christ may be looking at us to see. I would imagine that some of you are watching me pretty closely as well and that's a very good thing. Many of us do not realize how many others are watching our lives. If we look in the book of Romans we will see many questions asked of us. People will be looking still for sin to pop up into our lives, they will be looking to see if the old habits that we have had before we came to Christ still exist within us. Some will be looking for God's righteous judgment on our own lives. Some will be looking to see if we follow the letter of the law. Others will be looking to see if God is going to be faithful to his word to us, and most certainly they will look to see if we are going to be faithful to him. While the word tells us that no one is righteous, it is still difficult to understand God's forgiveness of sin. Not only is it difficult for others to forgive sin concerning our lives, but it is difficult for us to forgive sin within our lives. Sometimes when were not strong enough to forgive we must lean on the same kind of faith that Abraham showed which justified him by faith. It is our faith and our willingness to give away control to the Holy Spirit within us that will bring peace and joy to our hearts. The Scripture tells us that this is death through Adam, and life through Christ. We become dead to sin, and alive in Christ. All the time we spend in struggling with sin our faith causes us to be slaves to righteousness, and our life becomes spiritual and not physical. The word of God tells us that we are more than conquerors as we give up this temporary promise of life for a guaranteed life and future glory in the kingdom of heaven with Christ.
I want to begin to explore more of these basics in our Christian faith with you so that you might be able to share this word with others more easily many Christians today use their faith in God as though it were a cane or walking stick. They use God as a support in times of unbalance or need, but also as a weapon on others in the real faith must be found in something bigger than yourself that cannot be manipulated by you or changed to fit your desires and whims. Our faith in God must come not from our own control, but from a trust in a power that we allowed to control us. A question for you do we wield our faith through self-control or does God control us? May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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