FOUNDATION STATEMENT: We cannot walk in the deception that we have arrived
where this commandment of love is concerned.Keeping this commandment is a whole lot more than just being a “good
Christian.”The enemy has gotten us to
neglect this commandment in our deception that we got it and when in reality,
we have lacked true understanding of what “IT” is.
I. What’s on the line here if we don’t keep the
commandment of love?
A. The
Word can’t work for you (Matthew 22:40)
B. A
life full of form, but no results (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
C. Being
oppressed and overpowered by the devil (Isaiah 54:14-17, 1 John 4:18)
II. Loving the Lord with all of your heart
A. Your
heart is the ground and words are seeds (Mark 4:14-15)
1. We
want to sow only the Word of God in your hearts
B. The
things that are being brought forth in your life are coming from the deposits
that you’ve made into your heart. Whatever you put in your heart whether it be
good or bad will manifest in your life (Matthew 12:33-37).
1. A
man is bringing forth the things, not
Satan, not God
a. God
is the healer and he provided healing in seed form, but if healing is going to
be brought forth in your life, according to Jesus you’re going to have to sow
healing in your heart in seed form
2. Adam
was supposed to guard his garden (Genesis 2:15)
a. Satan’s
first step in bringing forth something evil was that he released word-seeds
towards the ground of their hearts
One
of Eve’s problems was she didn’t know what God said
i. If
you don’t know what God has said, then you might allow something to get in
there that isn’t what he said
C. To
love God with all of our hearts, we need to guard our hearts and keep our
hearts above all keeping(Proverbs
4:20-25)
1. Things
get into your heart through your eyes, your ears, and by coming out of your
mouth
2. You
guard your heart by attending to God’s words, giving your ears to God’s words,
looking at God’s words all the time, and by not speaking words out of your
mouth that don’t line up with God’s Words.
3. You
love God with of you heart by guarding your heart from evil seeds and then
taking the time to sow the Word in there
a. In
a sense you stand outside your heart and you don’t allow ANYTHING that opposes
God's Word to get in there
II. Loving the Lord with all of your mind
A. When
you are loving God with all of your mind you are thinking on His Word and only
His Word (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
1. To
love God with all of your mind is to cast down every thought that opposes the knowledge of God
a. You
don’t cast down thoughts with thoughts you cast down thoughts with words
b. The
moment you take a thought that doesn’t line up with His Word you just violated
the first commandment
2. If
you’re worrying then you’re in violation of the commandment of love
(Philippians 4:6-8)
a. You
make a decision to think on the Word
i. I
will not think that; I will to think on this
B. To
love God with all of your mind is to renew your mind to line up with his word
(Romans 12:1-3)
1. Casting
down imaginations is the process that you go through in renewing your mind – You
say something different, to think something different, until you don’t have to
say something different to think something different any more
2. You
got to make the decision to conform your lifestyle to fit this Word, instead of
trying to confirm this Word to fit your lifestyle
a. However
I think right now could be wrong, and God’s word is right, so no matter what I
think, I’m changing it to line up with what he thinks.
III. Love the Lord your God with all of your will
A. To
love God with all of your will is to love God with every choice that you make
(John 14:15)
1. The
deciding factor for the decisions that you make is no longer how is this going
to make me feel, but the basis for every decision that you make is, “Does this minister love to the Father?”
a. I
might not “feel” like doing it, but
that’s not the basis for why I do what I do.The basis for why I do what I do is, “Does
it minister love to the Father?”
B. The
greatest love statement that ever came from the lips of man (Matthew 26:36-41,
Luke 22:44)
1. The
pressure was on Jesus to think something different, say something different,
and do something different than what God said.He resisted to the point that blood starts dripping like sweat would
from his pours.And then the greatest
statement of love that has ever fallen from the lips of man comes pouring out
of him
a. When
the pressure was put on him, what was in him came roaring out of him – Love
C. He
swore to his own hurt before he violated that commandment (Ps 15)
1. I
don’t care how much pressure is on me and I don’t care if blood drips from my
pours, I’ll love God with every thought that I chose to think, every word that
I choose to speak, and every action that I choose to make
D. To
love God with all your will is to love him with every word that you chose to
speak
1. No
matter how much pressure is on me I choose to say what God has told me to say (Ephesians
4:29, James 3:14)
IV. Love the Lord your God with all of your emotions
A. Loving
God with all of your emotions is controlling your emotions rather than your emotions
controlling you (Ephesians 4:26)
1. The
emotion of anger doesn’t move into the action of sin
2. Answer
anger with the love of God
V. Love the Lord your God with all of your might or
resources (Deuteronomy 6:5, Mark 12:29, Luke 10:27)
A. All
of your time
B. All
of your money and possessions
VI. Loving your neighbor
A. Our
ability to love people is limited to the revelation and/or the consciousness
that we have of God’s love for us
1. If
you don’t know the way that he loved you, then you cannot love others that way
(John 13:34)
2. You
got to ask yourself all the time, “How
does and how did God love me?” and then extend that same love towards
others
B. God’s
extended His love towards and we are obligated to extend that same love towards
others (1 John 4:19-20, 11)
