“Order Your Loves Correctly – Relationships”

Introduction

Series: Devotional Explorational

Title: “Order Your Loves Correctly – Relationships”

The default of ordering your loves is really loving people! Down stream from a great relationship with the Lord is a healthy family, work, and marriage! Get closer to the spout! 

Trans: last week second mile! 

The difference between wolves and sheep!

• Wolves you identify and out!

• Sheep your shepherd! 

• Goats you discipline. 

Matthew 22:34-40

34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Trans: Idols 

The default of ordering your loves is really loving people! Down stream from a great relationship with the Lord is a healthy family, work, and marriage! Get closer to the spout! 

Body 

1. Go first.

• Go yourself.

• Don’t forfeit sitting at His feet. 

Luke 10:42

but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Idols need to be dethroned daily. 

2. Point without words.

• Be a signpost.

John 13:55

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

3. Invite them to a relationship.

Invite others to experience Jesus. 

Luke 19:8

But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”

Core Value.

Conclusion 

The default of ordering your loves is really loving people! Down stream from a great relationship with the Lord is a healthy family, work, and marriage! Get closer to the spout!