Saturday, February 03, 2007
GOD PURSUES A LOVE RELATIONSHIP
Pastor Daniel sharing...
Matthew 22:37-38
- Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment."
John 14:21
- Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.
John 14:31
- But the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.
If you want to experience God, you have to: Love and Obey
If you have an obedience problem, you have a love problem.
Everything in your Christian life depends on the quality of your love.
1. WE ARE CREATED FOR A LOVE RELATIONSHIP
- Highest things you ever get.
- Highest relationship .
- Highest achievement.
- Highest position in life.
Matthew 6:24
- No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
- Cannot serve both God n Money.
- Either Love this or hate the other.
- God love you first.
- God is the one who choose you, not you choose Him!
Romans 3:10-12
- As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."
Jeremiah 31:3
- The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
John 6:44
- No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- God is interested in your heart.
Revelation 3:20
- Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door. I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
- God can wait, He will never force you.
2. WE ARE CREATED NOT FOR TIME, BUT ETERNITY
- Hell is the very absence of God's presence.
- God uses your time here on earth to shape your future usefulness in eternity.
Philippians 3:4-14
- though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
-Forgetting those things which are behind.
- Be more Christ like.
3. WE ARE CREATED TO FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
- Start with the first step.
- The more time you spend with God, the relationship increase.
4. WE ARE CREATED FOR A PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL RELATIONSHIP
Ephesians 1:19-20
- and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms.
Genesis 3:20-21 =>Adam and Eve
Genesis 16:1-13 => Hagar
1 Kings 3:5-13 => Solomon
Mark 6:7-13 => The 12 disciples
- God relationship with man is very practical.
~Yvonne~
Scribbled by: Child of God @11:29 pm
