Sunday 12/03/17
Series: Doers of the Word
Message – Valuing Christ
Valuing Christ
Last time I taught, it was about what we value…
I had said that there are words for love in the Greek, but what I SHOULD have said is that there are three words for love which are most commonly used in the New Testament.
Below are some of the Greek words for love and their general meaning, but the ones in bold are those we are most familiar with and are the only ones we will address…
- Eros – Sexual passion. The first kind of love was eros, named after the Greek god of fertility, and it represented the idea of sexual passion and desire. …
- Phileo – Friendship, based upon common interests. Can represent deep friendships.
- Ludus – Playful love.
- Agape – Committed and devotional love.
- Pragma – Longstanding love.
- Philautia – Love of the self.
Review
- We learned that agape love takes us places in our loyalty to God that phileo & eros never will.
- There are times when…
- Emotions will fail you
- Desires to honor Him will be out stripped by the heat of the moment
But when there is dedication and commitment, loyalty and devotion – aka~ agape, there will be long-lasting fidelity.
- What makes the difference? What do you value!
- HOW you view something has EVERYTHING to do with the value you place upon it.
Jesus essentially said it this way, “where your warehouse is, there your heart will be also.” ~ Lk. 12:34
I showed you that what Jesus was saying was that whatever you amass… what you store up is where you’re true affections are. That is what you truly desire, posses passion for.
- Change your views and that will reset your values
Phil. 3:20-21,
“(20) For our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we wait for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: (21) Who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things unto himself.”
- What you value will guide your dedication
Deep heart commitment comes from where we place our greatest value and THAT produces enduring loyalty!
There are times when the only thing that will keep you from sinning…the only thing which will cause your fruit to continue and remain is loyalty to what you value!
This week we are going to focus on knowing Him.
Knowing Him
The key to all the above is truly knowing Him.
- Agape
- Value
- Changing your views (opinions)
- Submitting to His Lordship
1 Corinthians 1,
“1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus,
5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,
6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
You cannot value one you do not know.
Your value of a person will be limited to how deeply you really know them.
The Lord has recently brought me to a place of awareness, where I found myself thinking, “I really do not know You Jesus… Not as You really are.”
- Bigger.. Much much bigger!
- Creator – this is huge.
- Do I really know Him?
This service had no notes since it was an open discussion…Blessings!
I hope this teaching will challenge you and encourage you to place your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
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