09 Mar New Command To Love
Pastor Vincent - 9 January 2014
Right Before God, Unity With Brethren
What is delightful in God's eyes is always a sore in Satan's eyes. How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! (Psalm 133:1 NIV). While God loves His children to live in harmony and grow in love towards one another, Satan hates it to the core and tries to stop. As a result, misunderstandings, distrust, suspicions and Pharisaical issues arise even within churches. While it is a difficult battle to fight, for evil and cunning is the thief who works through all ways to steal away the peace and joy of children of God. But to children of God, He always provides a way out. When things get messy and out of hands, look to Him and seek Him carefully. Continue to dwell in His word, meditate and confirm it repeatedly until it becomes the unshakeable anchor point in your life. When you look to the Word with a believing heart, the Word gives you a God-revering spirit, a spirit that is fertile to the guidance of Holy Spirit. Learn from Phinehas confrontation and defense of the Eastern Tribe in Joshua 22. When we want to be right before God first, the leading of Holy Spirit will do His work in uniting the brethren's in love and grace, leaving no foothold for Satan.
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Love is not a new topic for believers. Yet as we lead our lives, our definition of love, as God would have it, can be easily distorted, misunderstood, and instead of being a glorious tool for us to glorify God and love men, becomes experiences that is against our spirit. Let us reexamine what God means by His command to love.
Verses to Read: Jn 13:34-35, 1-5, 12-30
- Command: “Love one another”
- Promise: “Everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Our Flawed Love
- Love in our own capacity
- Our Perspectives
- Perspective of self
- Perspective of others
Love of Christ
- Humble Love
– The humble love of Jesus will propel us to love more & beyond like Him. - Love with a price
– If we choose to love but are wronged in return, Jesus will look even more real and beautiful in our love.
- Love with Authority
– Jesus has the authority to command us not because He is God, but because He is Love.
How to Love One Another?
- Be loved by God first
<1 Jn 4:19> We love because he first loved us.
<1 Jn 4:11> Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
<1 Jn 3:23> And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. - Love like Jesus Christ (acts of love)
– Give time
– Guard our speech - Intercession
– Love purposefully, not blindly
– Come out of the devil’s deceptions
– Indeed loved by God in the process
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