A Call to Pursue Pt.4
I’m Willing & Im Able
Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus 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.”
I. Introduction
We can love our brothers and sisters the same way Christ Treats Us
How? Love the Lord God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Secondly, love your neighbor as you love yourself
II. By Loving God and learning to love yourself
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- Loving God
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- Start with quality prayer time with God
- Rise Early in the Morning to Feed My Spirit, Clear My Mind
- Psalm 63:1 1 You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
- Jesus would rise early Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
- Psalm 5:3 In the morning O Lord, you will hear my voice. In the morning,g I will order my prayer to you and eagerly watch
- Purge My Soul
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- Soul -place that holds my emotions-pride, selfishness, covetnoues, envy, insecurities and fears
- Psalm 51:10-12 Create in me a clean heart, and renew in me the right spirit
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- Clean Heart and a Due Right Mind
- Galatians 5:22-23 Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control
- Focus on What love is
- God is Love
- 1 John 4:16 God is Love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
- How do I describe it
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- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
III. By Knowing Who You’re Dealing With
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- Who is my neighbor (anyone with whom you come into contact with (Luke 10:25-37)
- Define Neighbor:
- Good Neighbor: friendly, respectful, considerate, helpful, communicates
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- Bad Neighbor: disrupts peace, has aggressive behavior, complains over trivial matters, and is unpleasant to live with.
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- Ugly Neighbor: neglect respect, harsh or rude behavior, disregard for anyone’s feelings
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- Whosoever (everybody we come in contact with)
- Examples
- Good Samaritan
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- The Woman at the Well
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- Zachius
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- What Jesus says about the way we love
- Left-Handed lovers
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- Matthew 25:41-46 Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Right-Handed Lovers
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- Matthew 25:33-40 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,[a] you did it to me.’
- What does love have to do with it? Tina Turner
- Everything
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- 1 John 4:10-12 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ^11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ^12No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us.
- If we confess it, it is time to live it
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- 1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as He is, so are we in the world
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- 1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
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- There’s a reward for your hospitality
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- Matthew 25:31-34 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. ³²All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. ³⁴”Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
- What did Jesus Command Us to DO
- Matt 10: 7-8 The Kingdom is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, cast out devils. Freely Ye Received, freely ye give
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- Matt 5:44-45 Bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you
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- Matthew 7:12 In Everything, do unto others what you would have them to do unto you
IV. Remember what it took for Christ to Bring You In
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- We haven’t always been saved and surely haven’t always done right
- Ephesians 2:2-4 in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
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- Roman 5:6-10 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
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- Why does the cross have this powerful effect?
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- Every time we look at the cross, Christ seems to be saying to us, “I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.”
- Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary.
- It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
- Loving Everybody isn’t Always Easy, but God says loving you wasn’t easy either
- Ephesians 4:1-2 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
- Key Points to Remember in this call:
- * A Pursurer should live in a way that honors the gifts they have been given.
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* A Pursurer should be humble, gentle, and patient.
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* A Pursuer should be forgiving of each other’s faults.
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* A Pursuer should be eager to maintain unity in the body of Christ.
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* A Pursuer should turn away from their “old self” and embrace their “new self”.
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