Rooted In Love!
We think that…. “If I had _______, then I would be stronger”. We ask God to change our circumstances instead of asking God for strength!
Christianity is the only religion where God dwells in us.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
ROOTED IN LOVE
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and
grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth, and height—to know the love of Christ which
passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God”
(Ephesians 3:17-19).
Rooted and grounded here means:
*** “to build under you a deep and stable foundation of Knowing and Understanding the Love of God to YOU.
In other words, the knowledge of God’s love to you is the foundational truth upon which ALL others truths must be built!
Without God we don’t know what love is. We cant say we love someone if we don’t love God. He is the creator of love.
For example, this is what the fear of God is built upon. A holy fear of God is
not a dread that he is ready to strike you down if you are caught in some
little fault.
Rather, it is the dread of his holiness against rebellion—and
of what he does to those who love darkness rather than light.
*The soil that you draw life from dictates the kind of fruit that grows.
* The depth of the roots dictates the quality of fruit produced.
What soil are you drawing life from? *From the world?
*From TV, movies, books, Internet?
Christians who live in guilt, fear and condemnation are not “rooted and
grounded” in the love of God.
*Our heavenly Father sent his Son to die for our sins and weaknesses. And without fully knowing and fully understanding that kind of love to you, you will never have a stable or permanent foundation!
“[That you] . . . may be able to comprehend . . . the love of Christ”
(Ephesians 3:18-19).
The apostle Paul means for you to seize this truth and make it the foundation of your Christian life. He is telling you to put your spiritual hands out and say, “I am going to lay hold of this!”
Perhaps you are assaulted by a temptation you can’t seem to shake off.
**** Or maybe you carry a sense of never measuring up, of Unworthiness—a fear that the devil is going to trip you up and you are going to fail God.
This is the day for you to wake up to God’s love for you! I pray that as you
read this message, something will strike deep in your heart, and you will be
able to say, “You’re right. That’s me and I don’t want to live this way!”
Colossians 2:2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
I pray that you will get hold of this truth—that it will open your eyes and help you enter a whole new realm of joy and peace in your daily walk with him.
*God’s glory is the radiance of the fullness of who HE is, and that radiance is a Person.
*A person, Jesus Christ, is the one in whom all the fullness of deity was pleased to dwell (Colossians 2:9).
Jesus, the Person, IS the Word of God made flesh as the ultimate revelation of the triune God (John 1:18; Hebrews 1:1-3).
***The glory of God is a person and that person is JESUS!!!!!!
Make no mistake; the Lord see’s every detail of your life. You can run, but you can’t hide. Be sensitive to the conviction of His Spirit to bring correction. You can choose to either repent (turn from) all that is unholy and ungodly in your life, or you can carry on with rebellion and disobedience to His word.
The choice is yours and so is the harvest. You will reap either the fruit of righteousness or of unrighteousness. Take advantage of this opportunity to adjust the course of your life.
**Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Love ultimately is not a feeling – it is an action. It doesn’t spring from your heart (although it may be a part of it), but is an action. Love is practical, and is a series of choices you make.
Ultimately, there is only one message: “”Love one another.””
Thank You Jesus for Loving Me. Thank You Jesus for Your Words of Truth found in your All sufficient Word, the Bible. Thank You for loving me so much that You gave Your life(action) because of my sins. 1 John 4:10: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”. Thank you Lord that the glory of God is a person and that person is Jesus!!!!! Amen