06/02/2024 Church service

周日礼拜

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   The LOVE You’re Searching For  您正在寻找的爱  

 

1 John 4:7-9: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
約 翰 一 書 4:7-9: 亲爱的朋友们，让我们彼此相爱吧。因为爱来自上帝，有爱的人就是上帝的孩子，也认识上帝。 没有爱的人，就不会认识上帝。因为上帝就是爱。 上帝是这样向我们展示了他对我们的爱的：上帝派遣他的独子来到世上，以便让我们通过他而有生命 (page 1981)

1 John 4:18: Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.
約 翰 一 書 4:7-9: 哪里有上帝的爱，哪里就没有畏惧。因为上帝完美的爱驱散恐惧。使人们害怕的是上帝的惩罚，所以，上帝的爱不会在怀有恐惧的人之中得以实现。(page 1981)

John 5:24 “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.”
約 翰 福 音 5:24:“我实话告诉你们，谁听我的话，又信仰派我来的那位，谁就会得到永生，就不会被定罪，他就已经出死入生了。" (page 1725)

James 5:16: Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
雅 各 書 5:16: 要互相坦白自己的罪过，为彼此祈祷，以便上帝治愈你们。正义的人所做的祷告是会奏效的。(page 1964)

 

 

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The LOVE You’re Searching For
1 John 4:7-19

Monday, Memorial Day – a time to let go and let GOD
I realized I had been running on fumes for far too long
In the quietness of the moment, in prayer and contemplation, the eyes of my heart opened to the need we all have to return to the LOVE that we need
Seek the Lord – seek Him with your whole heart
If you seek a sunrise while travelling west (or a sunset traveling east) you will never find it (you will only find disappointment)
May you know the Love of Christ. May you know the Love of Christ.
1 John 4:18: Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.
Are we running toward Jesus as our Redeemer – the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world?
…or are we still thinking we are the condemned? *(No Condemnation)
Living like you’re waiting for test scores
John 5:24 (Jesus) “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.”

God’s Love (the love we have been searching for) is the power that will change us.
“Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us”
Heb 12:1 Let us put every thing out of our lives that keeps us from doing what we should.
God’s Love (the love we have been searching for) is what will change us.
1 John 4:21 – let us also reflect this love (we have received) to others.
Christ has given us this commandment: The person who loves God must also love other believers.
“For he has given us this command: whoever loves God must also demonstrate love to others.”
Jesus' two greatest commandments are to love God and love your neighbor:
• Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
• Love your neighbor as yourself

Matthew 22:37-39: Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

We know we should walk in love, but sometimes we find ourselves not doing it very well.
? Are you willing to stretch beyond the borders of your limited past experiences and recognize God’s will is for you to experience more of His love and power in your life?
Can you recognize that that time is now?
“REMEMBER, ANY LIMITATIONS YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE ARE PROBABLY JUST THE RESULT OF LIMITED EXPERIENCES.
EXPAND YOUR REFERENCES, AND YOU'LL IMMEDIATELY EXPAND YOUR LIFE.”

Phil 3:10: All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection…
“And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me.”
Let us set that intention and keep that intention
“Keep fresh before me the moments of my High Resolve”

Remember the Mission.
Isn’t everything we do as a church tied to this mission to love God and to love others?
Col 2:2: “encouraged in heart and united in love”
Our two-fold path is to first receive God’s Love – and then to let that love flow through us to others.

WE now have Response Ability – we have the ability to respond to God’s love and let HIS Love flow through us to change the planet.
Still feel challenged? When we are weak – HE is strong

NOT responding in LOVE is a sign of our own weakness

Truly responding with the Love of Christ is something higher than our own ability.
It means we yield – we surrender – to a power greater than our own.
So much of what we do is based on our current state of accepting that LOVE – or the opposite state of still searching for a way fill that perception of NOT having that love.

Ephesians 3:19-20: "That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us"

“More Love – More Power – More of YOU in My Life”

The “christian” critics love to use that term “prosperity gospel” to attack and condemn other ministers, but I would submit – “what is the alternative? the poverty gospel?”

So many believers are walking their daily Christian walk with a poverty of God’s love. They are missing it – and don’t even realize it.
As Paul wrote, “Now I will show you a better way.”

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" is the third verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It is the first verse of the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes section of the sermon.

“What happiness comes to you when you feel your spiritual poverty! For yours is the realm of heaven's kingdom."

"poor in spirit" means:
• Recognizing one's own sin, spiritual emptiness, and poverty
• Not being self-satisfied or proud
• Turning to Christ with humility and faith
• Realizing how badly one needs God and how they are nothing without Him
• Recognizing one's total spiritual destitution and complete dependence on God

1 John 5:1-5: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah is God’s spiritual child and has been fathered by God himself. And everyone who loves Father God loves his children as well. This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: by having a passionate love for God and by obedience to his commands. True love for God means obeying his commands, and his commands don’t weigh us down as heavy burdens.
You see, every child of God overcomes the world, for our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the world.
So who are the world conquerors, defeating its power?
Those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
ESV: For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

NLV: Loving God means to obey His Word, and His Word is not hard to obey.

You’ve experienced much more of the Love of God than you can recognize with the natural senses.

1 John 4:19: We are able to love God and other people because God loved us first.

“Grace is God’s Love in Action.”

From sinking sand He lifted me, With tender hand He lifted me,
From shades of night to plains of light, O praise His name, He lifted me!

When we find ourselves in the whirlwind – when we seem to have lost our way…
check your heart – check your soul.

Are you rooted and grounded in the Love of Christ?

"If you want more of MY Love, you have to make room for it"

1 John 2:15: Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

Love NOT the world
Let Go of all the things that are holding you back from what God wants to impart into your life.

We can make room in our hearts for more of God’s love through repenting of those opposing things that may be filling our hearts today.

Justifying Grace. Sanctifying Grace. (“our sanctification” verse)

James 5:16: Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Confess your faults... that you may be healed

Hillside United Methodist Church
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Phenix City  AL  36870
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