LOVE LIKE YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN (2)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Love like your Father in Heaven
a) When we choose to obey God, even when we do not want to we are sacrificing our lives for Him. With God, the reward is always so much greater than the sacrifice.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2 NIV)
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. (Ephesians 5:1-2 NKJV)
b) When we forgive people who hurt us or offend us we are making a sacrifice of love. Forgiveness requires us to reject our pride and embrace humility; a dying to yourself decision. However, God gives grace to the humble and that is when you will experience His life, His love flowing into you.
Therefore you must immediately put on, as chosen and beloved saints of God, hearts, inner thoughts of compassion, generosity, humility, gentleness, patience, bearing with one another and forgiving each other if any would have a complaint against someone: just as also the Lord forgave you, so also you must forgive: and upon all of these, love, which is a bond of perfection. And the peace of the Messiah must continually rule in your hearts, into which peace you were also called in one body: and you must constantly be grateful. (Colossians 3:12-15 ONM)
c) If you are born-again you already have love inside you. Love is a decision. You must release love and let it touch someone. Even if you do not feel like it, say a kind word to someone who is difficult to love in your life. Give to someone in need. When you begin to make the sacrifice of love, you will begin to experience the joy of love.
d) The Hebrew word for righteousness has the meaning of “actions of loving kindness”. We pray that where you come into an increased awareness of the love God has for you; and may you live in the manifest presence of His love. May it be that as He is, so are You in this world.
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. (1 John 4:16-18)
The End ...
a) When we choose to obey God, even when we do not want to we are sacrificing our lives for Him. With God, the reward is always so much greater than the sacrifice.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2 NIV)
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. (Ephesians 5:1-2 NKJV)
b) When we forgive people who hurt us or offend us we are making a sacrifice of love. Forgiveness requires us to reject our pride and embrace humility; a dying to yourself decision. However, God gives grace to the humble and that is when you will experience His life, His love flowing into you.
Therefore you must immediately put on, as chosen and beloved saints of God, hearts, inner thoughts of compassion, generosity, humility, gentleness, patience, bearing with one another and forgiving each other if any would have a complaint against someone: just as also the Lord forgave you, so also you must forgive: and upon all of these, love, which is a bond of perfection. And the peace of the Messiah must continually rule in your hearts, into which peace you were also called in one body: and you must constantly be grateful. (Colossians 3:12-15 ONM)
c) If you are born-again you already have love inside you. Love is a decision. You must release love and let it touch someone. Even if you do not feel like it, say a kind word to someone who is difficult to love in your life. Give to someone in need. When you begin to make the sacrifice of love, you will begin to experience the joy of love.
d) The Hebrew word for righteousness has the meaning of “actions of loving kindness”. We pray that where you come into an increased awareness of the love God has for you; and may you live in the manifest presence of His love. May it be that as He is, so are You in this world.
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. (1 John 4:16-18)
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