How Do we Show Our Love for God
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How Do we Show Our Love for God? ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. ’ This is the first and great commandment… Mt 22: 37 -38
Listen to His Word (Nehemiah 8) • • Eagerly vs 1 -2 Attentively vs 3 Trustingly vs 4 -5 Expectantly vs 5 Prayerfully vs 6 Patiently vs 7 Humbly vs 6 • • • Purposefully vs 6 Happily vs 17 Repentantly vs 9: 1 -3
Obey His Commands • John 14: 15 – “If you love Me, keep My commandments. ” • John 14: 23 -24 – Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. • 1 John 5: 3 – For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
Value His Gifts (James 1: 17) • The gift of Creation – Gen 1: 1, Ps 19: 1 -2, Ps 8: 3 -4 • The gift of His Word – Ps 19: 7 -11, Jn 6: 63, Ps 1: 1 -3, Rom 15: 4, II Tim 3: 16 -17 • The gift of Salvation – Jn 1: 29, Jn 3: 16, 1 Jn 4: 9 -10, Tit 3: 4 -7
Value His Gifts (James 1: 17) • The gift of His Church – Mt 16: 18, Acts 20: 28, Col 1: 13, 2 Cor 11: 2, 1 Cor 3: 16 • The gift of His Promises – Jn 5: 28 -29, 1 Cor 15: 50 -58, 2 Pet 3: 13, Rev 21: 1 -5, Heb 11: 10 & 16, Heb 13: 14
Express it openly
