HOW DEEP IS GOD'S LOVE? (3)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. How deep is God's love?
a) We know that we are commanded to love God above everything and everyone.
(Matthew 22:37-38 NKJV)
Jesus said to him, ” ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ {38} “This is the first and great commandment. We are to love God even more than our own family members. (Matthew 10:37 NKJV) “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
b) When you put Jesus first in your life you are set free from the bondage of depending on another person. God becomes your source to meet all of your needs, physical, spiritual, and emotional. This sets you free to be a giver of loving compassion to the important people in your life, not depending on them to give back to you. To often in marriages spouses look to each other to get their needs met, this causes the one to feel unsatisfied and unfulfilled that their spouse can not satisfy their needs. The other one feels frustrated and inadequate to meet the needs demanded.
c) This causes a whole range of problems including anger and resentment all coming from selfishness. In a good marriage the two people will have compassion for each other making them givers not takers. They will each get more pleasure giving to the other person than from receiving. Because the Lord becomes their portion their reward, He gives satisfaction and fulfillment and meets every need.
The End ...
1. How deep is God's love? a) We know that we are commanded to love God above everything and everyone.
(Matthew 22:37-38 NKJV)
Jesus said to him, ” ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ {38} “This is the first and great commandment. We are to love God even more than our own family members. (Matthew 10:37 NKJV) “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
b) When you put Jesus first in your life you are set free from the bondage of depending on another person. God becomes your source to meet all of your needs, physical, spiritual, and emotional. This sets you free to be a giver of loving compassion to the important people in your life, not depending on them to give back to you. To often in marriages spouses look to each other to get their needs met, this causes the one to feel unsatisfied and unfulfilled that their spouse can not satisfy their needs. The other one feels frustrated and inadequate to meet the needs demanded.
c) This causes a whole range of problems including anger and resentment all coming from selfishness. In a good marriage the two people will have compassion for each other making them givers not takers. They will each get more pleasure giving to the other person than from receiving. Because the Lord becomes their portion their reward, He gives satisfaction and fulfillment and meets every need.
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