Extra Strength Comes Through Love

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EXTRA STRENGTH

 

EXTRA STRENGTH COMES THROUGH LOVING

1 JOHN 4: 10-11

January 19, 2020 PM

1 John 4: 10-11 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

 

 

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

 

 

 

 

Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever

 

 

Mark 12:29-31  Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

 

 

 

1 John 4: 10-11 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

 

 

 

 

 

We get extra strength from love because God 

1.MADE US

 

When we realize how loved we are and are receiving and giving His love we have extra strength.

 

 

When you put happiness ahead of love you actually work against your own happiness.

 

2.MOTIVATES US

 

 

 

2 Corinthians 5: 14-15 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. ince we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's play this video of Mr. Rogers- the whole clip please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGgzhJesKeI

 

 

 

3.MEASURES US

 

 

 

Deuteronomy 13: 1-3 “If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

 

If an influential or special person comes into your life who impresses you but tends to draw you away from the Lord, it may be a test to see if you really love the Lord with all your strength.

 

 

 

How can we love Him who is invisible?

A. By putting Him above everyone and everything else in life

 

B. By telling Him and others we love Him

 

C. By obeying Him

 

John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

 

 

 

D. By helping others Lord, I love you and I want to help you. But You are invisible to I am going to help this person as a way of loving You.

1 John 5:1(NLT) Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.

 

 

Let’s close by singing I love You Lord.