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Our LoveOur Love For For GodGod

Mk. 12:30Mk. 12:30

2IntroductionIntroduction

• Here is a command that is at the Here is a command that is at the heart heart of Christian livingof Christian living

• This verse needs to be in our This verse needs to be in our minds continuallyminds continually

3HeartHeart

• “To love God with all our hearts means to have our feelings, desires, emotions, affections, and longings involved in the process of serving God.” Bob Winton

4HeartHeart

• We can’t please God on emotion only-----our emotions must be under control and guided by knowledge

• Emotions are important—Lord’s Supper—baptisms—the hurting-- Lost souls

5HeartHeart

• Luke 10:20 “rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”

• Rejoice = to feel or express great joy or happiness

• Phil. 4:4 “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.”

6SoulSoul

• This is loving God with our This is loving God with our lifelife• The willingness to give our whole The willingness to give our whole

life to the Lordlife to the Lord• Rom. 12:1-2Rom. 12:1-2• Mt. 16:25Mt. 16:25

7Rom. 12:1-2Rom. 12:1-2

• I beseech you therefore, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, to God, which iswhich is your reasonable your reasonable service.service.

8Rom. 12:1-2Rom. 12:1-2

• 2 And do not be conformed to 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what that you may prove what isis that that good and acceptable and perfect good and acceptable and perfect will of God. will of God.

9Mt. 16:25Mt. 16:25

• ““For whosoever will save his life For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find lose his life for my sake shall find it.”it.”

10Mt. 16:25Mt. 16:25

• “One must give himself fully to do the Lord's will and be the Lord's person if he expects to be a citizen In heaven” Bob Winton

11MindMind

• Fully dedicating our mind to his Fully dedicating our mind to his serviceservice

• Those who do not take the time Those who do not take the time to to learnlearn the will of God really do the will of God really do not love himnot love him

• Rom. 10:3Rom. 10:3

12Rom. 10:3Rom. 10:3

• ““For they being ignorant of For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own to establish their own righteousness, have not righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of submitted to the righteousness of God.”God.”

13MindMind

• Jn. 14:15Jn. 14:15• We We cannotcannot keep that which we do keep that which we do

not know!not know!• To love God with all our minds we To love God with all our minds we

must studymust study• Acts 17:11Acts 17:11• 3 Jn. 33 Jn. 3

14Acts 17:11Acts 17:11

• ““These were more noble than These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”those things were so.”

153 Jn. 33 Jn. 3

• ““For I rejoiced greatly, when the For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.”thou walkest in the truth.”

16StrengthStrength

• With our With our allall---our abilities, ---our abilities, talents, time, money etc. talents, time, money etc.

• Mt. 25:15Mt. 25:15• ““To one he gave five talents, to To one he gave five talents, to

another two, to another one, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. each according to his ability. Then he went away.”Then he went away.”

17StrengthStrength

• Ps. 90:12Ps. 90:12• ““So teach us to number our days, So teach us to number our days,

that we may that we may apply our hearts apply our hearts unto wisdom”….(“unto wisdom”….(“that we may that we may get a heart of wisdom”)get a heart of wisdom”)

18In ConclusionIn Conclusion

• Loving God is giving our ALL—Loving God is giving our ALL—it is much more than it is much more than lip lip serviceservice

• MindMind• Heart Heart • SoulSoul• StrengthStrength

19ReferencesReferences

• The Pivotal Command, Outline by Tom MooreThe Pivotal Command, Outline by Tom Moore• Outlined Commentary on Matthew, Bob WintonOutlined Commentary on Matthew, Bob Winton