FOUNDATION STATEMENT: As believers to be successful in our endeavors we have to live in divine order.  We can’t do things out of order then expect to get the results that God has promised us.  To get the result that God wants us to get, we have to lay the foundation first and the foundation to everything that we do is the love of God.  Without the foundation of love in place, nothing else works the way it is supposed to work. 

I. Until the Love of God is primary in your life you will continue to live your Christian life with spotted results always having the form of Christianity,  but constantly lacking the power to get results  

A. When you neglect the commandment of love you deny the power to get results (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

1. These people loved themselves, loved pleasures, but they didn’t love God; they didn’t keep the commandment of love

2. Love is the power that makes all of theWord work, and when you neglect love, you have form, but no results

a. You can’t neglect the thing that makes all of this work and then be surprised when it doesn’t work for you

b. EXAMPLE: It’s like having house all wired up with the light switches in, the light bulbs in, and but not having your house connected to the power company.  You turn the light switch up with your light bulb in and you have form, but the light doesn’t come on because you don’t have power.

3. Christian people should be getting results (Deuteronomy 7:14)

I don’t want to have the facade of a Christian only to look at the results in my life and see little to do difference between me and the world.

II. The love of God must be primary if you want results

A. Matthew 22:38 – (AMP) – Principal (main, primary, prime, major, most important, key) command

1. First – Chronologically or in order of importance, best, chief, or beginning

a. Nothing is better or more important than this

2. Great – (Mega) of position, important – positionally there’s nothing greater than this

B. The commandment of love is the beginning of everything that we do as believers – You always start with this

1. The way laying the foundation is the beginning of building a house, this commandment of love is the beginning of everything we build as believers

a. If I start with something other than the foundation then what I’m building will never succeed

2. Before you start building anything from the Word of God you lay the foundation love by asking yourself:

a. Am I loving the Father with all of my heart?  Do I constantly spend time listening to wrong word seeds and allow those word seeds to be sown into my heart?  Do I keep my heart with all diligence and only sow God’s Word in there? 

b. Am I loving the Father with all of my mind?  Is this commandment on my mind?  Do I take thoughts that don’t line up with the Word without casting them down? 

c. Am I loving the Father all my will?  Do I constantly make decisions that don’t please the Father? 

d. Am I loving the Father with all my emotions?  Do I control my emotions are do my emotions control me?

e. Am I loving my neighbor as myself? 

f. Is this commandment priority one in my life?  Is it on me mind?  Am I doing my best to grow in it?  Do I acknowledge when I violate it and repent of it? 

3. Then you lay the foundation of love in that specific area where you are believing God (For example: Financial Prosperity) 

a. I’m going to love God with all of my heart where my financially prosperity is concerned by only sowing His Word-Seeds (on financial prosperity)  in my heart and I’m going to guard my heart from any words seeds that opposed His Word.

b. I’m going to love God with all of my mind, by keeping my mindset on His Word Says concerning my financial prosperity 

c. I’m going to love God with all of my will, by making the decisions that he would have me to make finically   

d. I’m going to love God with all my emotions by staying in joy and in peace where my finances are concerned

e. I’m going to love my neighbor as myself where my financial prosperity is concerned

C. The preeminence of love

1. Colossians 3:14 – Love is the binding factor that holds all of this together making it usable

2. 1 Peter 4:8 – Above ALL THINGS put on love

3. 1 Corinthians 12:31(AMP)  – A gift that is better and higher than them all

4. 1 Corinthians 13:1-4,13 – The greatest is love

5. 1 Corinthians 14:1 – Make love your aim and great quest

a. Follow after – pursue, pursuing a person on foot in a chase, striving and pressing on to a goal with intensity, press on

III. Why is there such priority on this commandment of Love?

A. Psalm 11:3 – If the foundation of love isn’t in place, what can you do? Nothing

1. When you build a house you start with the foundation first because if you don’t the walls won’t work the way their supposed to work, the roof won’t work the way it’s supposed to work, and nothing else will work the way its supposed to work and it won’t be long until you’re in the middle of that house with every part of it piled up on you, not working. 

2. That’s the picture of Christianity.  We have tried to live our Christian lives without laying the foundation first.  There are many today Christians who are sitting down in middle of the house of their lives with all these great things on top of them not working.

B. Without Love you don’t have peace, you don’t have joy, you don’t have prosperity, you don’t have healing, you don’t have deliverance.

1. When you put your rod of love back up all of these things start to working the way they are supposed to work. .

IV. It’s a commitment to the commandment of Love that will enable you to walk in the fullness of the promises of God (1 Corinthians 13:9)

A. Diligence in the commandment of love is the key to living a life of fullness