1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:01,899 We all 2 00:00:02,359 --> 00:00:04,200 live... If we're gonna live lives that are 3 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:05,179 somewhat organized, 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:07,639 you have lists. 5 00:00:08,132 --> 00:00:08,290 Right? 6 00:00:09,241 --> 00:00:11,380 List. Do you go to the grocery store 7 00:00:11,380 --> 00:00:12,965 without a list? Who goes to the grocery 8 00:00:12,965 --> 00:00:13,678 store without a list? 9 00:00:15,755 --> 00:00:17,425 Jane does not let me go to the 10 00:00:17,425 --> 00:00:19,571 grocery store without a list because I... That 11 00:00:19,571 --> 00:00:21,479 looks good. I could use that. Yep. Need 12 00:00:21,479 --> 00:00:23,402 that. That might be good and I come 13 00:00:23,402 --> 00:00:24,911 home with a bunch of things that never 14 00:00:24,911 --> 00:00:27,216 get eaten or used, so she does the 15 00:00:27,216 --> 00:00:29,600 grocery shopping. She goes with a list. How 16 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,649 about playlist? For your favorite music platform. I 17 00:00:32,649 --> 00:00:33,149 love 18 00:00:33,609 --> 00:00:34,750 making playlists. 19 00:00:35,850 --> 00:00:38,010 How about your Christmas wish list? 20 00:00:38,729 --> 00:00:40,010 Your birthday wish list. 21 00:00:41,612 --> 00:00:43,358 I can't believe I'm saying this, but how 22 00:00:43,358 --> 00:00:45,897 about you with little ones, your school supply 23 00:00:45,897 --> 00:00:46,214 lists? 24 00:00:47,087 --> 00:00:47,880 Oh, I know. 25 00:00:49,087 --> 00:00:51,713 We're already coming around the corner to get 26 00:00:51,713 --> 00:00:54,021 back to school. I remember when our kids 27 00:00:54,021 --> 00:00:55,056 were little. It was, 28 00:00:55,851 --> 00:00:57,625 Back to school night, blink 29 00:00:58,412 --> 00:01:01,189 field day. Back to school night, blink, field 30 00:01:01,189 --> 00:01:02,299 day, school supplies. 31 00:01:03,251 --> 00:01:04,362 How about your bucket list? 32 00:01:05,329 --> 00:01:07,405 Right? Your bucket list, the things you wanna 33 00:01:07,405 --> 00:01:09,960 do or see before you kick the bucket. 34 00:01:10,199 --> 00:01:10,359 Right? 35 00:01:12,355 --> 00:01:12,855 So 36 00:01:13,392 --> 00:01:14,111 speaking of lists. 37 00:01:15,162 --> 00:01:16,908 I read a a list of a hundred 38 00:01:16,908 --> 00:01:18,576 things to do before you die. 39 00:01:19,449 --> 00:01:21,434 And I was quite surprised that y'all for 40 00:01:21,434 --> 00:01:22,545 help wasn't 1 of them. 41 00:01:25,898 --> 00:01:26,694 Thank you, Meghan. 42 00:01:27,887 --> 00:01:29,955 She's my plant and the audience to giggle. 43 00:01:31,963 --> 00:01:32,762 Any dog people, 44 00:01:33,721 --> 00:01:34,920 innovation. Dog people. 45 00:01:36,278 --> 00:01:36,438 Okay? 46 00:01:38,036 --> 00:01:40,049 I like other people's dogs. I just don't 47 00:01:40,049 --> 00:01:42,709 like having a dog, but here's the list 48 00:01:43,250 --> 00:01:45,969 of the 10 worst dog breeds. Let's see 49 00:01:45,969 --> 00:01:47,409 if your dog is on this list. 50 00:01:49,340 --> 00:01:49,816 I know. 51 00:01:51,008 --> 00:01:51,643 Number 1, 52 00:01:52,357 --> 00:01:54,184 there. Number 2, are. 53 00:01:54,978 --> 00:01:56,248 Number 3, no, 54 00:01:57,058 --> 00:01:58,333 Number 4, bad. 55 00:01:58,891 --> 00:01:59,608 Number 5, 56 00:02:00,086 --> 00:02:01,759 dog, number 6, breeds. 57 00:02:02,237 --> 00:02:05,903 Number 7, only. Number 8, bad. Number 9, 58 00:02:06,221 --> 00:02:06,540 owners. 59 00:02:07,514 --> 00:02:10,071 There are no bad dog breeds, only bad 60 00:02:10,071 --> 00:02:10,391 owners. 61 00:02:11,110 --> 00:02:13,507 And coming in at number 10 is Chihuahua. 62 00:02:18,234 --> 00:02:19,909 Y Taco bell. Right? 63 00:02:23,099 --> 00:02:25,412 Jane asked me to put ketchup on the 64 00:02:25,412 --> 00:02:27,824 grocery list. And now I can't read it. 65 00:02:33,025 --> 00:02:34,465 Keep going, Scott, you got this. 66 00:02:35,917 --> 00:02:38,471 I finally crossed running a marathon off my 67 00:02:38,471 --> 00:02:40,625 bucket list. There was no chance I was 68 00:02:40,625 --> 00:02:42,222 ever gonna do it. I'm glad it's gone. 69 00:02:44,549 --> 00:02:45,049 Lastly, 70 00:02:45,665 --> 00:02:47,817 I hired a handyman, and I gave him 71 00:02:47,817 --> 00:02:49,571 a list of things to do at our 72 00:02:49,571 --> 00:02:50,767 house. And when I got home, 73 00:02:51,658 --> 00:02:53,723 He had only done number 1, number 3 74 00:02:53,723 --> 00:02:54,700 and number 5 75 00:02:55,073 --> 00:02:56,901 because it turns out he only does odd 76 00:02:56,901 --> 00:02:57,218 jobs. 77 00:03:00,491 --> 00:03:02,582 I'll be here all week. Tip your waitress. 78 00:03:04,231 --> 00:03:06,936 We're in a series called ask the rabbi. 79 00:03:07,348 --> 00:03:09,571 And we've been going through the gospel in 80 00:03:09,571 --> 00:03:10,547 looking at 81 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:13,778 questions that were asked of Jesus, who asked 82 00:03:13,778 --> 00:03:14,493 those questions? 83 00:03:15,143 --> 00:03:16,974 Why did they ask? What was their motive? 84 00:03:17,372 --> 00:03:20,236 And what was Jesus response? And I've really 85 00:03:20,236 --> 00:03:22,439 enjoyed this and we've had really good feedback 86 00:03:22,799 --> 00:03:25,112 that most of you have really enjoyed this. 87 00:03:25,352 --> 00:03:26,548 So appreciate that. 88 00:03:27,745 --> 00:03:29,282 Today, we're gonna look at a passage 89 00:03:30,155 --> 00:03:32,074 a question that was asked of Jesus, 90 00:03:32,794 --> 00:03:34,395 probably at least 3 times. 91 00:03:35,275 --> 00:03:36,235 Let me read this to you. 92 00:03:38,564 --> 00:03:41,433 1 of the scribes came and heard them 93 00:03:41,433 --> 00:03:44,463 arguing and recognizing that he had answered them 94 00:03:44,463 --> 00:03:44,781 well. 95 00:03:45,672 --> 00:03:49,323 Asked him what command is foremost of all. 96 00:03:50,196 --> 00:03:52,339 What's the greatest command? Jesus answered. 97 00:03:53,149 --> 00:03:55,303 The foremost is hero israel. 98 00:03:55,782 --> 00:03:58,256 The Lord our God is 1 lord, and 99 00:03:58,256 --> 00:03:59,852 you shall love the Lord your God with 100 00:03:59,852 --> 00:04:02,263 all your heart, with all your soul, with 101 00:04:02,263 --> 00:04:03,242 all your mind 102 00:04:03,621 --> 00:04:04,820 and with all your strength. 103 00:04:05,539 --> 00:04:07,777 And the second is this, you shall love 104 00:04:07,777 --> 00:04:08,516 your neighbor 105 00:04:08,895 --> 00:04:09,535 as yourself. 106 00:04:10,344 --> 00:04:11,954 There is no other command 107 00:04:12,642 --> 00:04:13,910 greater than these. 108 00:04:14,624 --> 00:04:16,605 What is the greatest command? Jesus? 109 00:04:19,557 --> 00:04:20,511 In the old testament, 110 00:04:21,146 --> 00:04:24,743 the in the Hebrew Bible, there are 613 111 00:04:24,958 --> 00:04:26,332 commands. There's a list 112 00:04:27,117 --> 00:04:28,885 of 613 113 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:29,178 commands. 114 00:04:30,049 --> 00:04:32,665 And the... Those commands were divided into into 115 00:04:32,665 --> 00:04:36,437 2 categories. You had the heavy more binding 116 00:04:37,211 --> 00:04:37,529 commands, 117 00:04:38,246 --> 00:04:39,861 and then you had the light 118 00:04:40,475 --> 00:04:42,386 section, which is the the less binding. 119 00:04:43,593 --> 00:04:45,658 The context of this question that's asked of 120 00:04:45,817 --> 00:04:46,317 Jesus 121 00:04:47,088 --> 00:04:49,415 is the ph we're trying to 122 00:04:49,788 --> 00:04:50,821 test Jesus. 123 00:04:51,394 --> 00:04:53,475 Did he love God's law? Did he... What 124 00:04:53,475 --> 00:04:54,134 was his 125 00:04:54,514 --> 00:04:56,595 interpretation and understanding to the law? 126 00:04:58,274 --> 00:05:00,214 What's the greatest command? Jesus 127 00:05:00,930 --> 00:05:01,430 quotes 128 00:05:02,290 --> 00:05:04,449 what the the Jewish people call the sc, 129 00:05:05,170 --> 00:05:05,910 which is 130 00:05:06,290 --> 00:05:08,942 the word in Hebrew to hear to hear. 131 00:05:09,261 --> 00:05:09,500 Sc. 132 00:05:10,137 --> 00:05:12,230 Sc Israel. I not el. 133 00:05:13,164 --> 00:05:14,519 You didn't know I spoke Hebrew, but I 134 00:05:14,519 --> 00:05:14,997 do a little bit. 135 00:05:16,126 --> 00:05:18,455 Hero Israel, the Lord, our God. The Lord 136 00:05:18,591 --> 00:05:21,214 is 1. And that was that whole passage 137 00:05:21,214 --> 00:05:22,964 in D64 138 00:05:22,964 --> 00:05:23,464 through 139 00:05:24,014 --> 00:05:26,754 about 10 is the creed of judaism. 140 00:05:27,295 --> 00:05:30,095 Most orthodox Jews would and still do today, 141 00:05:30,495 --> 00:05:31,634 recite that passage 142 00:05:32,109 --> 00:05:34,986 have it memorized and recite it out loud 143 00:05:34,986 --> 00:05:36,344 at least twice a day. 144 00:05:37,782 --> 00:05:39,620 And then Jesus adds to that, 145 00:05:40,273 --> 00:05:42,500 Levi vi 19 verse 18. 146 00:05:43,375 --> 00:05:44,512 And he tells them 147 00:05:45,125 --> 00:05:47,845 all of this list of commands every single 148 00:05:47,845 --> 00:05:49,913 1 of them that you've read, hang on 149 00:05:49,913 --> 00:05:51,288 these 2 peg of 150 00:05:51,822 --> 00:05:53,413 love god with all you have. 151 00:05:54,144 --> 00:05:56,367 And love your neighbor as yourself. All of 152 00:05:56,367 --> 00:05:57,662 the commands flow 153 00:05:58,035 --> 00:06:00,259 out of out of those that command to 154 00:06:00,259 --> 00:06:02,324 love God and love your neighbor. 155 00:06:03,850 --> 00:06:04,889 I don't know if you like me. 156 00:06:05,529 --> 00:06:07,529 If you have a a short attention span 157 00:06:07,529 --> 00:06:08,009 sometime, 158 00:06:09,129 --> 00:06:09,870 long act 159 00:06:10,329 --> 00:06:11,449 explanations where you out, 160 00:06:12,182 --> 00:06:13,955 anybody relate to that just a little bit 161 00:06:14,091 --> 00:06:15,466 or how about 162 00:06:15,841 --> 00:06:16,341 tedious 163 00:06:17,272 --> 00:06:17,670 rules, 164 00:06:18,386 --> 00:06:19,977 rules for just rules sake? 165 00:06:20,786 --> 00:06:23,665 I'm probably breaking those rules. If they don't 166 00:06:23,958 --> 00:06:26,099 have love behind it, and it's just a 167 00:06:26,099 --> 00:06:27,130 rule to have a rule, 168 00:06:27,685 --> 00:06:28,185 it's 169 00:06:28,732 --> 00:06:28,971 It's 170 00:06:29,687 --> 00:06:31,516 those those wear me out as well You 171 00:06:31,516 --> 00:06:32,232 ever read the book of. 172 00:06:35,509 --> 00:06:37,824 Fall asleep, man, it's a tough book to 173 00:06:37,824 --> 00:06:40,878 read because there's all these different tedious 174 00:06:41,655 --> 00:06:43,491 commands and things told to do. 175 00:06:44,225 --> 00:06:45,904 So what I love about what Jesus has 176 00:06:45,904 --> 00:06:47,504 done for us here is he gave us 177 00:06:47,504 --> 00:06:48,485 the cliff notes 178 00:06:48,944 --> 00:06:50,785 on all 613 179 00:06:50,785 --> 00:06:51,105 commands. 180 00:06:51,598 --> 00:06:54,621 The cliff notes are... Everything flows from your 181 00:06:54,621 --> 00:06:56,552 love for God and your love 182 00:06:56,927 --> 00:06:57,723 for your neighbor. 183 00:06:58,692 --> 00:07:00,915 If you look at the 10 commandments. Right? 184 00:07:01,312 --> 00:07:02,050 The first 185 00:07:03,217 --> 00:07:05,440 4 of the 10 commandments are about loving 186 00:07:05,519 --> 00:07:08,161 God. The second 6 are about loving your 187 00:07:08,161 --> 00:07:08,400 neighbor. 188 00:07:09,037 --> 00:07:11,985 Don't lie. Don't steal, don't murder, etcetera. 189 00:07:12,940 --> 00:07:14,852 And so for us to get the most 190 00:07:14,852 --> 00:07:17,179 out of this, we have to see... What 191 00:07:17,179 --> 00:07:18,078 what is Jesus 192 00:07:18,455 --> 00:07:21,007 telling us today? How does this apply to 193 00:07:21,007 --> 00:07:23,399 you and I in the year 20 24 194 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:25,828 in the season of life that you find 195 00:07:26,126 --> 00:07:27,024 yourself in 196 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,816 because the gauge of disciples ship 197 00:07:30,831 --> 00:07:31,491 and our 198 00:07:31,948 --> 00:07:33,325 transformation is our ability 199 00:07:33,703 --> 00:07:36,826 to love God be loved by God and 200 00:07:36,826 --> 00:07:39,774 love our neighbor as ourselves. That... That's the 201 00:07:39,774 --> 00:07:41,766 gauge. That's what we're looking for. The... The 202 00:07:41,766 --> 00:07:43,678 measure of maturity is love. 203 00:07:44,650 --> 00:07:46,189 And the root of sin 204 00:07:46,650 --> 00:07:47,850 is a failure to love. 205 00:07:48,569 --> 00:07:51,050 Sometimes sin is defined as breaking god's law. 206 00:07:51,210 --> 00:07:53,529 Yeah. I get that. Sometimes it's missing the 207 00:07:53,529 --> 00:07:53,770 mark. 208 00:07:54,582 --> 00:07:57,442 Defined as, but ultimately, when when we send, 209 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,269 it's a failure to trust God, 210 00:08:00,381 --> 00:08:01,016 obey God, 211 00:08:01,652 --> 00:08:04,767 and I'm doing something against my neighbor. Somehow 212 00:08:04,767 --> 00:08:05,985 some way. That's ultimately 213 00:08:06,681 --> 00:08:07,559 the root of sin. 214 00:08:08,356 --> 00:08:09,973 And I think it begs the question 215 00:08:10,350 --> 00:08:12,902 on this greatest command, why would god command 216 00:08:12,902 --> 00:08:13,402 us 217 00:08:13,952 --> 00:08:14,429 to love him. 218 00:08:15,145 --> 00:08:16,099 It's a fair question. 219 00:08:16,576 --> 00:08:17,928 What? He doesn't need our love? 220 00:08:18,643 --> 00:08:20,631 Why would he command us to love. This 221 00:08:20,631 --> 00:08:21,426 is so important. 222 00:08:22,158 --> 00:08:23,854 Anything God commands 223 00:08:24,471 --> 00:08:26,965 of us to do or not to do 224 00:08:27,342 --> 00:08:29,815 it's out of love. He wants what's best 225 00:08:29,815 --> 00:08:30,612 for you and I. 226 00:08:31,824 --> 00:08:34,381 Because God loves us too much to let 227 00:08:34,381 --> 00:08:34,881 us 228 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:36,639 share our hearts 229 00:08:37,658 --> 00:08:40,295 and our worship with a lesser joy than 230 00:08:40,295 --> 00:08:40,455 him. 231 00:08:41,108 --> 00:08:43,820 Because the ultimate joy is found in loving 232 00:08:43,820 --> 00:08:45,995 god and being loved by God 233 00:08:46,612 --> 00:08:47,329 and love God. 234 00:08:48,526 --> 00:08:50,302 Let's talk about this. What does it mean 235 00:08:50,855 --> 00:08:52,375 to love God. What does it mean? Let's 236 00:08:52,375 --> 00:08:54,055 it? Try to answer that question. 237 00:08:54,855 --> 00:08:57,654 To love God, first of all, means I 238 00:08:57,654 --> 00:08:58,795 daily choose 239 00:08:59,189 --> 00:09:01,180 to give him the whole of my life. 240 00:09:01,897 --> 00:09:04,366 I daily choose to give him the whole 241 00:09:04,366 --> 00:09:05,083 of my life. 242 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,813 That means you value god 243 00:09:08,761 --> 00:09:09,478 above all else. 244 00:09:10,273 --> 00:09:12,581 Value is the essence of worship. 245 00:09:13,218 --> 00:09:15,605 The word worship that we say in in 246 00:09:15,605 --> 00:09:17,730 modern English today comes from the old 247 00:09:18,248 --> 00:09:21,358 English way of of speaking of the word 248 00:09:21,358 --> 00:09:22,315 worth ship, 249 00:09:23,112 --> 00:09:24,388 the worth of something. 250 00:09:24,866 --> 00:09:26,541 So we worship what we value. 251 00:09:27,830 --> 00:09:29,819 I think this is so important. When you 252 00:09:29,819 --> 00:09:30,558 and I 253 00:09:31,013 --> 00:09:31,513 see 254 00:09:32,445 --> 00:09:33,661 all of our life 255 00:09:34,196 --> 00:09:35,946 as acts of worship to God, 256 00:09:36,519 --> 00:09:38,677 then we will be we will be giving 257 00:09:38,677 --> 00:09:40,434 him the whole of our life. We will 258 00:09:40,434 --> 00:09:43,971 be loving God when he we see everything 259 00:09:45,403 --> 00:09:47,558 that we do from little things to big 260 00:09:47,558 --> 00:09:50,193 things as acts of worship. The apostle Paul 261 00:09:50,193 --> 00:09:52,748 put it this way in Philippians 01:21. He 262 00:09:52,748 --> 00:09:54,025 said to live as Christ, 263 00:09:54,599 --> 00:09:55,715 and to die his gain. 264 00:09:56,432 --> 00:09:58,584 To live as Christ. To live as Christ 265 00:09:58,584 --> 00:10:00,895 is to give god the whole of my 266 00:10:00,895 --> 00:10:02,171 life every day. 267 00:10:02,984 --> 00:10:04,662 Give him the whole of my life, and 268 00:10:04,741 --> 00:10:05,700 I think this is important. 269 00:10:07,298 --> 00:10:09,716 That you and I as followers of Jesus 270 00:10:10,188 --> 00:10:13,234 followers of Jesus that we don't compartment minimize 271 00:10:13,291 --> 00:10:16,019 our lives. We don't compartment minimize him 272 00:10:16,394 --> 00:10:18,383 in our life. What I mean by that 273 00:10:18,383 --> 00:10:18,883 is 274 00:10:19,432 --> 00:10:19,908 I work. 275 00:10:20,623 --> 00:10:22,607 I have a family. I have friends, 276 00:10:23,163 --> 00:10:23,878 I have hobbies. 277 00:10:24,592 --> 00:10:26,577 And I follow Jesus and go to church. 278 00:10:27,464 --> 00:10:28,732 That's compartment minimizing. 279 00:10:29,842 --> 00:10:31,268 What we need to do to live as 280 00:10:31,427 --> 00:10:33,274 Christ is he is the 281 00:10:33,646 --> 00:10:34,146 foundation 282 00:10:34,614 --> 00:10:37,884 And from from him, flow, my work, from 283 00:10:37,884 --> 00:10:41,313 him, flow, my family, my friendships, and my 284 00:10:41,313 --> 00:10:44,679 hobbies. He's the he's the totality of our 285 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:44,918 life. 286 00:10:46,116 --> 00:10:48,510 So spend your life on what matters most 287 00:10:48,510 --> 00:10:49,149 to Jesus. 288 00:10:50,027 --> 00:10:52,523 What matters most to him, spend your life 289 00:10:52,661 --> 00:10:53,140 on that. 290 00:10:54,667 --> 00:10:56,995 See Jesus in the ordinary. 291 00:10:57,846 --> 00:11:01,679 Right? From, like first Corinthians 10:31 says whether 292 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:03,355 you eat or drink due to the glory 293 00:11:03,355 --> 00:11:03,834 of God. 294 00:11:04,552 --> 00:11:06,489 Eating and drinking are pretty ordinary 295 00:11:06,867 --> 00:11:09,341 thanks, and we do that with thankful and 296 00:11:09,341 --> 00:11:09,841 grateful. 297 00:11:10,394 --> 00:11:12,709 Changing a diaper to the glory of God. 298 00:11:13,188 --> 00:11:15,743 Your job turning a wrench. Whatever you do, 299 00:11:16,382 --> 00:11:17,919 see it as an act of worship 300 00:11:18,457 --> 00:11:18,856 to God. 301 00:11:21,893 --> 00:11:22,369 Secondly, 302 00:11:22,925 --> 00:11:24,354 what does it mean to love God? It 303 00:11:24,354 --> 00:11:25,727 means I choose daily 304 00:11:26,417 --> 00:11:27,846 to seek to do his will. 305 00:11:29,053 --> 00:11:29,770 With my life. 306 00:11:31,364 --> 00:11:32,957 Seek to do his will wake up in 307 00:11:32,957 --> 00:11:34,152 the morning and say God, 308 00:11:34,869 --> 00:11:35,825 I give you my will. 309 00:11:36,478 --> 00:11:38,390 Because the do God's will, you're gonna have 310 00:11:38,390 --> 00:11:39,984 to let him be in charge of your 311 00:11:39,984 --> 00:11:42,056 will. You're gonna have to turn your will 312 00:11:42,056 --> 00:11:42,556 over 313 00:11:42,933 --> 00:11:43,331 to him. 314 00:11:44,064 --> 00:11:45,742 And I got good news. If you want 315 00:11:45,742 --> 00:11:47,900 to do the will of god, you will. 316 00:11:48,619 --> 00:11:50,377 Because if you want to do God's will, 317 00:11:50,457 --> 00:11:52,295 it means your heart is in position. 318 00:11:53,028 --> 00:11:53,687 For him 319 00:11:54,142 --> 00:11:56,528 to move your life in the right direction 320 00:11:56,528 --> 00:11:58,119 that's best for you and that you're gonna 321 00:11:58,119 --> 00:11:59,494 have an impactful life 322 00:12:00,124 --> 00:12:00,682 on others. 323 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,553 And as Brian said earlier, 324 00:12:04,112 --> 00:12:06,664 his will is love that we love him 325 00:12:06,664 --> 00:12:08,339 and that we love 1 another and that 326 00:12:08,339 --> 00:12:09,376 we obey his commands. 327 00:12:10,347 --> 00:12:12,280 Jesus said his commands are not burdensome. 328 00:12:12,736 --> 00:12:15,762 He said, follow me, and you'll find rest 329 00:12:15,762 --> 00:12:17,934 for your soul. Jesus said this in John 330 00:12:17,992 --> 00:12:18,151 15, 331 00:12:18,883 --> 00:12:19,997 This is my command, 332 00:12:20,554 --> 00:12:23,021 love 1 another. The way I have loved 333 00:12:23,021 --> 00:12:23,260 you. 334 00:12:23,897 --> 00:12:25,966 This is the very best way to love. 335 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:28,540 Put your life on the line for your 336 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:28,940 friends. 337 00:12:29,820 --> 00:12:31,820 You are my friends when you do the 338 00:12:31,820 --> 00:12:33,419 things I command you. 339 00:12:35,355 --> 00:12:39,035 In Matthew's gospel, Matthew 5, 6 and 7 340 00:12:39,035 --> 00:12:39,855 is a very 341 00:12:40,554 --> 00:12:43,195 long descriptive version of the sermon on the 342 00:12:43,195 --> 00:12:43,355 mount. 343 00:12:44,326 --> 00:12:45,280 In Luke's Gospel, 344 00:12:45,677 --> 00:12:47,109 in Luke chapter 6, 345 00:12:47,984 --> 00:12:51,005 it's a condensed version of the sermon on 346 00:12:51,005 --> 00:12:51,324 the mount. 347 00:12:52,214 --> 00:12:53,729 And you know the sermon on the mount 348 00:12:53,729 --> 00:12:55,961 has some some tough things in there. 349 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,114 Like love your enemies. 350 00:12:58,832 --> 00:13:00,586 Pray for those who per you. 351 00:13:01,318 --> 00:13:02,830 If they ask you to go 1 mile, 352 00:13:03,069 --> 00:13:04,342 go 2 miles. 353 00:13:05,217 --> 00:13:06,888 Anybody see, better not spoil it for you 354 00:13:07,127 --> 00:13:08,264 Anybody wants the chosen 355 00:13:09,212 --> 00:13:11,206 Alright. You know what I'm talking about there 356 00:13:11,286 --> 00:13:13,360 I'm going the this extra mile. I'm not 357 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,636 gonna spoil it for you, but thank you. 358 00:13:15,514 --> 00:13:17,508 You should watch it. It's free, download the 359 00:13:17,508 --> 00:13:18,225 app. Very cool. 360 00:13:19,272 --> 00:13:20,224 Life giving for sure. 361 00:13:21,254 --> 00:13:22,997 But at the end of the sermon on 362 00:13:22,997 --> 00:13:24,503 the mount in Luke 6, 363 00:13:26,501 --> 00:13:27,001 Jesus 364 00:13:27,376 --> 00:13:29,604 says this. He says, now, why do you 365 00:13:29,604 --> 00:13:30,979 call me Lord Lord 366 00:13:31,592 --> 00:13:32,865 and do not do what I say. 367 00:13:34,233 --> 00:13:35,187 He's puzzled by that. 368 00:13:35,983 --> 00:13:38,290 You're gonna call me Lord, but then you're 369 00:13:38,290 --> 00:13:39,643 gonna not do what I say. 370 00:13:40,533 --> 00:13:43,392 Any good father or mother has experienced that 371 00:13:43,392 --> 00:13:44,743 before with your kids. Like, 372 00:13:45,537 --> 00:13:46,729 I'm your dad. I'm your mom. I love 373 00:13:46,729 --> 00:13:48,238 you. I have your best interest at heart. 374 00:13:49,286 --> 00:13:51,534 But how much more the perfect god 375 00:13:52,385 --> 00:13:53,894 in heaven says, why do you call me 376 00:13:53,974 --> 00:13:55,960 Lord and not do what I say. Why 377 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,152 do you not put into practice? 378 00:13:57,644 --> 00:13:59,473 Why do you not forgive those who wrong 379 00:13:59,473 --> 00:14:00,587 you? And so forth. 380 00:14:02,735 --> 00:14:04,030 And I think we summarize 381 00:14:04,739 --> 00:14:06,497 if if to love God is to give 382 00:14:06,497 --> 00:14:08,335 him the whole of my life and my 383 00:14:08,335 --> 00:14:08,655 will, 384 00:14:09,214 --> 00:14:10,972 then what we're gonna have to do is 385 00:14:10,972 --> 00:14:11,472 is 386 00:14:12,171 --> 00:14:12,970 answer this question. 387 00:14:15,371 --> 00:14:17,380 In any given circumstance, 388 00:14:18,310 --> 00:14:21,486 ask yourself what does love require of me? 389 00:14:22,697 --> 00:14:25,191 What does love require of me in these 390 00:14:25,488 --> 00:14:28,200 relationships or I wrong somebody or they wrong 391 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:28,700 me 392 00:14:29,078 --> 00:14:31,572 or I'm frustrated or what... What's love 393 00:14:32,122 --> 00:14:32,622 require 394 00:14:33,076 --> 00:14:33,552 of us, 395 00:14:34,427 --> 00:14:35,301 then we'll love God. 396 00:14:36,413 --> 00:14:37,367 How do I love God? 397 00:14:38,002 --> 00:14:40,005 How do we love God? Like, what... How 398 00:14:40,005 --> 00:14:41,698 is that tangible to love 399 00:14:42,948 --> 00:14:44,618 a being that we don't see? 400 00:14:46,304 --> 00:14:48,856 You know, who doesn't need me? He doesn't 401 00:14:48,856 --> 00:14:51,249 need any of us. How do we love 402 00:14:51,249 --> 00:14:51,568 him? 403 00:14:52,445 --> 00:14:55,077 And I'm gonna kinda go a reverse way 404 00:14:55,077 --> 00:14:55,556 on this? 405 00:14:56,128 --> 00:14:59,087 Is the the first thing to love God 406 00:14:59,539 --> 00:15:00,967 is I need to know that I'm loved 407 00:15:00,967 --> 00:15:01,681 by the father. 408 00:15:03,282 --> 00:15:05,425 You need to know if you're gonna love 409 00:15:05,505 --> 00:15:05,822 God, 410 00:15:06,537 --> 00:15:08,045 give him your life, give him your will. 411 00:15:08,283 --> 00:15:11,323 You need to know that you are infinitely 412 00:15:12,190 --> 00:15:12,509 loved. 413 00:15:13,549 --> 00:15:14,370 First John 414 00:15:14,829 --> 00:15:16,669 puts it this way. John, the apostle says 415 00:15:16,669 --> 00:15:18,990 we love him because he first loved us. 416 00:15:20,118 --> 00:15:22,499 It's gonna be hard to love God if 417 00:15:22,499 --> 00:15:25,539 you don't know or believe that the father 418 00:15:25,674 --> 00:15:28,154 truly loves you. If you don't know and 419 00:15:28,154 --> 00:15:30,008 believe that it's gonna be hard for you 420 00:15:31,340 --> 00:15:34,309 to love him. People who have had difficult 421 00:15:34,367 --> 00:15:35,243 earthly fathers. 422 00:15:36,372 --> 00:15:39,626 Who maybe were abusive or absent or whatever. 423 00:15:40,420 --> 00:15:42,960 It's not easy to love someone who doesn't 424 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:43,674 love you back. 425 00:15:45,039 --> 00:15:47,600 But in our situation with our heavenly father, 426 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:49,539 he loves us 427 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:50,720 eternally. 428 00:15:52,173 --> 00:15:53,918 How do I know he's loved you? Eternally. 429 00:15:54,155 --> 00:15:55,186 Go to Ephesians 1. 430 00:15:55,820 --> 00:15:58,912 From eternity pass, before he ever created the 431 00:15:58,912 --> 00:15:59,388 universe, 432 00:15:59,958 --> 00:16:02,185 created Adam and eve his love was put 433 00:16:02,185 --> 00:16:04,490 upon you and set upon you. You were 434 00:16:04,490 --> 00:16:06,876 on his mind in eternity past. 435 00:16:08,084 --> 00:16:09,043 Let that sink in. 436 00:16:09,763 --> 00:16:10,802 His love is perfect. 437 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,158 Perfect love, casts out all fear. 438 00:16:14,957 --> 00:16:16,017 His love is 439 00:16:16,476 --> 00:16:16,715 unconditional. 440 00:16:17,769 --> 00:16:19,920 He doesn't put conditions on his love. He 441 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,833 loves you because he created you. 442 00:16:23,586 --> 00:16:24,782 And his love is personal. 443 00:16:26,550 --> 00:16:28,543 We all say God is love, God loves 444 00:16:28,543 --> 00:16:31,333 people, but we don't often personalize it for 445 00:16:31,333 --> 00:16:33,268 ourself. I think it was a augustine 446 00:16:33,980 --> 00:16:36,139 He said that god loves each of us 447 00:16:36,139 --> 00:16:37,980 as if there was only 1 of us. 448 00:16:38,540 --> 00:16:40,620 He loves you with that kind of love. 449 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:42,720 I'm on a Facebook group 450 00:16:43,354 --> 00:16:46,070 theological group, people talk about scripture and their 451 00:16:46,070 --> 00:16:48,227 walks with Jesus. There's thousands of people on 452 00:16:48,227 --> 00:16:49,345 this Facebook group. 453 00:16:49,998 --> 00:16:51,906 The other day I just kinda scrolling through 454 00:16:51,906 --> 00:16:53,996 some of the comments and this guy 455 00:16:54,529 --> 00:16:56,358 had said, I think I'm done with this 456 00:16:56,358 --> 00:16:59,004 whole faith thing. He said my dad 457 00:16:59,474 --> 00:17:01,552 is filled with cancer. My dad was a 458 00:17:01,552 --> 00:17:03,709 pastor and serve god all his life and 459 00:17:03,709 --> 00:17:06,446 now he doesn't even recognize me sometimes. 460 00:17:07,558 --> 00:17:09,789 And he'd had had some other people die 461 00:17:09,789 --> 00:17:12,180 and, like freak motorcycle accidents recently. 462 00:17:13,933 --> 00:17:14,491 And he was like, 463 00:17:15,381 --> 00:17:17,549 God can't be good if he's gonna allow 464 00:17:17,685 --> 00:17:18,876 this kind of stuff to happen. 465 00:17:20,227 --> 00:17:21,180 And we've all been there. 466 00:17:22,308 --> 00:17:24,142 Something bad happens in your life and you 467 00:17:24,142 --> 00:17:25,895 start thinking, God trying to teach me a 468 00:17:25,895 --> 00:17:26,213 lesson. 469 00:17:27,568 --> 00:17:27,807 No. 470 00:17:28,525 --> 00:17:29,855 The father doesn't 471 00:17:30,212 --> 00:17:32,678 abuse people to try to teach them a 472 00:17:32,678 --> 00:17:32,997 lesson. 473 00:17:34,349 --> 00:17:35,224 Life happens. 474 00:17:36,576 --> 00:17:38,816 Bad things happen because we're in a fallen 475 00:17:38,816 --> 00:17:41,120 and broken world, and I love the honesty 476 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:41,756 of Jesus. 477 00:17:42,471 --> 00:17:44,140 In John 16 33, 478 00:17:44,696 --> 00:17:45,093 he said, 479 00:17:46,064 --> 00:17:48,461 In this life, you will have trials and 480 00:17:48,461 --> 00:17:49,739 sorrows of many kind. 481 00:17:50,378 --> 00:17:52,455 But take courage. I've overcome the world. 482 00:17:53,667 --> 00:17:56,451 This we we want this life on this 483 00:17:56,451 --> 00:17:58,997 earth to be heaven, and it's not, and 484 00:17:58,997 --> 00:18:01,145 it never will be. As good as life 485 00:18:01,145 --> 00:18:01,623 can be, 486 00:18:02,594 --> 00:18:04,668 This is not heaven. The best is yet 487 00:18:04,668 --> 00:18:06,823 to come. In the new heavens and in 488 00:18:06,823 --> 00:18:09,057 the new Earth where there will be no 489 00:18:09,057 --> 00:18:11,619 more sin, no more Sorrow, all wrongs will 490 00:18:11,619 --> 00:18:14,001 be rite by Jesus. We're not there yet. 491 00:18:14,955 --> 00:18:18,211 So make margin in your life for trials 492 00:18:18,211 --> 00:18:19,402 and Sorrows, but no. 493 00:18:20,053 --> 00:18:22,279 That that doesn't change the love of God 494 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:24,211 for you because we look at our circumstances. 495 00:18:24,426 --> 00:18:26,653 The other thing, we we look at our 496 00:18:26,653 --> 00:18:28,880 circumstances and try to base God's love on 497 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:30,484 that or our feelings. 498 00:18:31,597 --> 00:18:34,695 And feelings are roller coaster right. Sometimes you 499 00:18:34,695 --> 00:18:36,682 have doubts. Sometimes you want God feels a 500 00:18:36,682 --> 00:18:37,715 million miles away. 501 00:18:38,843 --> 00:18:42,048 What determines his love for you is the 502 00:18:42,264 --> 00:18:45,151 incarnation of Jesus Christ. That God the son 503 00:18:45,606 --> 00:18:47,459 came into this fallen broken 504 00:18:48,168 --> 00:18:49,226 endemic world 505 00:18:50,001 --> 00:18:51,138 became 1 of us 506 00:18:51,595 --> 00:18:53,587 entered into a body like ours, 507 00:18:54,623 --> 00:18:55,123 and 508 00:18:55,833 --> 00:18:57,585 lived a perfect life, 509 00:18:58,222 --> 00:19:01,090 died to brutal death, sac death, but rose 510 00:19:01,090 --> 00:19:01,329 again. 511 00:19:02,126 --> 00:19:02,500 That's 512 00:19:03,096 --> 00:19:05,801 cross right there is what determines God's love 513 00:19:05,801 --> 00:19:07,630 for you and I. What he was willing 514 00:19:07,630 --> 00:19:08,426 to do for us. 515 00:19:09,714 --> 00:19:11,472 The second thing on how do I love 516 00:19:11,552 --> 00:19:12,692 God kinda goes 517 00:19:13,071 --> 00:19:14,669 with the first 1 and it's this. I 518 00:19:14,669 --> 00:19:17,067 need to abide in Jesus and walk in 519 00:19:17,067 --> 00:19:17,546 the spirit. 520 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:21,497 And I believe abiding in Jesus 521 00:19:21,876 --> 00:19:23,714 and walking in the spirit are the same 522 00:19:23,714 --> 00:19:25,552 thing. It's just saying it a little bit 523 00:19:25,552 --> 00:19:26,032 differently. 524 00:19:27,390 --> 00:19:27,890 Jesus 525 00:19:28,762 --> 00:19:31,474 tells us this, he says, abide me and 526 00:19:31,553 --> 00:19:32,372 I and you 527 00:19:32,989 --> 00:19:35,621 as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, 528 00:19:36,339 --> 00:19:37,477 fruit of itself 529 00:19:37,949 --> 00:19:39,388 unless it abide in the vine. 530 00:19:40,186 --> 00:19:40,746 So neither, 531 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:43,303 can you unless you abide in me? 532 00:19:44,022 --> 00:19:45,700 I am the vine. You are the branches. 533 00:19:46,354 --> 00:19:48,828 He who abide in me, and I and 534 00:19:48,828 --> 00:19:50,345 him he bears much fruit. 535 00:19:51,063 --> 00:19:52,978 For a apart from me, you can do 536 00:19:52,978 --> 00:19:53,298 nothing. 537 00:19:55,860 --> 00:19:56,360 God 538 00:19:56,733 --> 00:19:57,233 is 539 00:19:57,686 --> 00:19:59,910 people say, well, what is God? God is 540 00:19:59,910 --> 00:20:00,727 an eternal 541 00:20:01,259 --> 00:20:03,483 relationship between the father's son and spirit. 542 00:20:04,372 --> 00:20:06,783 1 God, 3 persons. They've existed 543 00:20:07,318 --> 00:20:10,902 eternally. From eternity paths to eternity future. God 544 00:20:10,902 --> 00:20:12,390 is a relationship 545 00:20:13,539 --> 00:20:13,777 Now, 546 00:20:14,491 --> 00:20:17,108 Jesus, God the son, when he came into 547 00:20:17,108 --> 00:20:17,901 this world, 548 00:20:18,377 --> 00:20:21,174 he took on an additional nature. A human 549 00:20:21,174 --> 00:20:22,313 nature that he will have 550 00:20:23,251 --> 00:20:25,169 you know, for the rest of eternity as 551 00:20:25,169 --> 00:20:25,409 well. 552 00:20:26,208 --> 00:20:28,526 But in in this fall world in a 553 00:20:28,526 --> 00:20:29,085 body like, 554 00:20:29,978 --> 00:20:31,645 in a mind like you and I have, 555 00:20:33,313 --> 00:20:35,297 he perfectly abide in his father. 556 00:20:36,091 --> 00:20:38,894 His life demonstrated what it means to be 557 00:20:39,283 --> 00:20:41,589 connected to the father at all times and 558 00:20:41,589 --> 00:20:44,374 to do his will to love his father 559 00:20:44,374 --> 00:20:45,431 with all he has 560 00:20:45,965 --> 00:20:47,078 and love people. 561 00:20:48,287 --> 00:20:50,855 So as we abide and Jesus, we're abiding 562 00:20:50,912 --> 00:20:51,627 in the father. 563 00:20:52,184 --> 00:20:54,332 And then the holy spirit produces the fruits 564 00:20:54,332 --> 00:20:56,580 of the spirit, which is love, joy, peace, 565 00:20:56,980 --> 00:20:58,815 patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, 566 00:20:59,294 --> 00:21:00,752 self control, faithfulness. 567 00:21:01,848 --> 00:21:04,100 Those things are produced by the spirit as 568 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:04,920 we abide 569 00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:07,539 in Jesus and walk in the spirit. 570 00:21:08,660 --> 00:21:10,259 Alright. Let me make this practical. How do 571 00:21:10,340 --> 00:21:10,900 I love God? 572 00:21:12,669 --> 00:21:15,952 This is important. This is where we totally 573 00:21:16,088 --> 00:21:16,588 participate 574 00:21:17,598 --> 00:21:19,189 with the Lord in this. I need to 575 00:21:19,189 --> 00:21:19,689 practice 576 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:21,839 integrated disciples shit. 577 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,359 Integrated disciples ship. I'm not trying to throw 578 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:26,240 out big words there. 579 00:21:26,799 --> 00:21:29,039 It's something I I came up with years 580 00:21:29,039 --> 00:21:29,200 ago, 581 00:21:29,933 --> 00:21:30,433 that 582 00:21:30,810 --> 00:21:32,882 we need the... To to love god, heart 583 00:21:32,882 --> 00:21:34,395 soul mind and strength. I need to love 584 00:21:34,395 --> 00:21:36,547 him with my head, my mind, I need 585 00:21:36,547 --> 00:21:38,379 to love him with my heart and love 586 00:21:38,379 --> 00:21:39,176 him with my hands. 587 00:21:39,908 --> 00:21:41,899 Head, heart and hands. You've heard that if 588 00:21:41,899 --> 00:21:45,164 you've been around here for any time that 589 00:21:45,164 --> 00:21:48,111 that the our model of integrated disciples ship 590 00:21:48,111 --> 00:21:50,525 is head, heart and hands. 591 00:21:51,244 --> 00:21:52,464 Now when you think of, 592 00:21:52,765 --> 00:21:54,464 you know, some people are more wired 593 00:21:55,244 --> 00:21:58,372 in the mind area, you know, intellectually as 594 00:21:58,372 --> 00:22:00,862 as you read scripture as you 595 00:22:01,317 --> 00:22:04,103 see a new truth as the dots are 596 00:22:04,103 --> 00:22:04,421 connected, 597 00:22:04,914 --> 00:22:08,102 You're like, whoa, God you're amazing. That's totally 598 00:22:08,102 --> 00:22:10,573 me. Like, I love studying and scripture and 599 00:22:10,573 --> 00:22:12,326 and loving god with my mind. 600 00:22:13,058 --> 00:22:14,729 But that doesn't mean I don't get to 601 00:22:14,729 --> 00:22:16,558 love him with my heart and my hands 602 00:22:16,558 --> 00:22:18,945 either. And you're gonna find as I describe 603 00:22:18,945 --> 00:22:19,502 this to you, 604 00:22:20,154 --> 00:22:21,773 that you're probably wired 605 00:22:22,152 --> 00:22:24,070 in 1 of those to to lean more 606 00:22:24,070 --> 00:22:25,828 heavy on either of the head, the heart 607 00:22:25,828 --> 00:22:27,825 or the hands. It's just the way god 608 00:22:27,825 --> 00:22:28,225 wired you. 609 00:22:30,230 --> 00:22:32,379 Years ago, we studied a book together called 610 00:22:32,379 --> 00:22:35,243 the sacred pathways by Gary Thomas. And if 611 00:22:35,243 --> 00:22:37,508 you've never read that book. A I highly 612 00:22:37,565 --> 00:22:39,974 recommended. I'll say the in sacred pathways, 613 00:22:40,349 --> 00:22:43,227 Gary Thomas. It's a life changing book, to 614 00:22:43,227 --> 00:22:45,055 your disciples ship to Jesus. 615 00:22:45,770 --> 00:22:48,313 Because in there, he came up with 9 616 00:22:48,313 --> 00:22:48,813 different 617 00:22:49,266 --> 00:22:50,005 spiritual temperament 618 00:22:50,634 --> 00:22:53,665 And a spiritual temperament is, when and where 619 00:22:53,665 --> 00:22:55,181 do you feel closest to god? 620 00:22:56,059 --> 00:22:57,829 When and where do you feel closest? To 621 00:22:57,829 --> 00:22:59,823 god. Some of the temperament where I just 622 00:22:59,823 --> 00:23:02,934 mentioned the intellectual part. When my mind is 623 00:23:02,934 --> 00:23:04,609 moved, I feel close to God. 624 00:23:05,965 --> 00:23:07,161 But for somebody else, 625 00:23:07,894 --> 00:23:08,930 when you're out in nature. 626 00:23:09,887 --> 00:23:12,120 You're on a hike and you're praying or 627 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:14,193 you're by river and you have your bible. 628 00:23:14,433 --> 00:23:16,586 You just feel closer to God when you're 629 00:23:16,586 --> 00:23:18,039 outdoors. Nurture that. 630 00:23:18,919 --> 00:23:19,419 You 631 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,880 somebody else you feel closest to god as 632 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,480 you're just serving somebody. 633 00:23:24,039 --> 00:23:27,486 You're literally just serving somebody that's gonna talk 634 00:23:27,486 --> 00:23:29,479 about the hands part to that. Somebody else, 635 00:23:29,718 --> 00:23:32,587 it's enthusiastic worship. Now, I feel close to 636 00:23:32,667 --> 00:23:35,819 God when when we're experiencing him and and 637 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,539 enthusiastic worship. Somebody else, it's 638 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,839 it's when you're by yourself, 639 00:23:41,974 --> 00:23:42,474 contemplating 640 00:23:42,933 --> 00:23:43,433 Jesus 641 00:23:43,892 --> 00:23:44,392 in 642 00:23:45,011 --> 00:23:47,088 prayer. Somebody else, it's tradition. 643 00:23:48,048 --> 00:23:50,785 It's the traditions of of the sac 644 00:23:51,898 --> 00:23:53,734 It's the tradition of the Creed. 645 00:23:54,373 --> 00:23:57,406 It's the tradition of Him in reading Him. 646 00:23:58,045 --> 00:23:59,184 Traditions is my second, 647 00:23:59,801 --> 00:24:00,201 temperament. 648 00:24:01,013 --> 00:24:02,386 And we're in a, 649 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:05,961 you know, non denomination church where we don't 650 00:24:06,017 --> 00:24:06,517 really 651 00:24:06,970 --> 00:24:08,797 have a whole lot of opportunities for that. 652 00:24:08,956 --> 00:24:09,989 So I have to do it on my 653 00:24:09,989 --> 00:24:10,148 own. 654 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,160 I read from a little h. 655 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,640 I recite the Creed. I feel close to 656 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:15,299 God 657 00:24:15,759 --> 00:24:17,359 in that as well. And if that's you, 658 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:19,679 that's good, because that's how God wired you. 659 00:24:20,333 --> 00:24:22,965 Learn how to practice these things. So let's 660 00:24:22,965 --> 00:24:25,039 go through this real quick. Number 1, the 661 00:24:25,039 --> 00:24:25,278 head, 662 00:24:26,634 --> 00:24:29,745 head is loving god with your mind. 663 00:24:31,274 --> 00:24:33,346 It's thinking about God. 664 00:24:34,303 --> 00:24:36,056 Thinking about God. I read a book 1 665 00:24:36,056 --> 00:24:38,543 time where a guy said that Another form 666 00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:41,180 of prayer is thinking about God. I was 667 00:24:41,180 --> 00:24:43,497 like, sometimes I feel like I got spiritual 668 00:24:43,656 --> 00:24:44,775 Ad when I'm praying, 669 00:24:45,428 --> 00:24:47,254 I'm like drift off and oh, squirrel, you 670 00:24:47,254 --> 00:24:49,637 know, and you you start mine starts going 671 00:24:49,637 --> 00:24:50,192 somewhere else. 672 00:24:50,907 --> 00:24:53,210 But I think about god all the time. 673 00:24:53,448 --> 00:24:55,370 So Was like, okay. And I I can 674 00:24:55,529 --> 00:24:58,234 I can receive that? Learning to control your 675 00:24:58,234 --> 00:24:58,791 thought life. 676 00:25:00,779 --> 00:25:01,177 Thoughts, 677 00:25:01,749 --> 00:25:04,621 Are the lead to worship, thoughts lead to 678 00:25:04,621 --> 00:25:06,078 sin because thoughts 679 00:25:06,854 --> 00:25:09,964 lead to feelings and feelings lead to behavior. 680 00:25:10,523 --> 00:25:11,615 Everything starts 681 00:25:12,448 --> 00:25:13,083 in the mind, 682 00:25:13,718 --> 00:25:16,021 even moving the heart. The apostle Paul put 683 00:25:16,021 --> 00:25:18,244 it this way. He said, don't copy the 684 00:25:18,244 --> 00:25:20,308 behavior in the customs of this world, 685 00:25:20,958 --> 00:25:23,337 but let God transform you into a new 686 00:25:23,337 --> 00:25:23,837 person 687 00:25:24,210 --> 00:25:25,796 by changing the way you think. 688 00:25:26,510 --> 00:25:28,335 Then you will learn to know god's will 689 00:25:28,335 --> 00:25:31,206 for you, which is good and pleasing and 690 00:25:31,206 --> 00:25:31,603 perfect. 691 00:25:32,714 --> 00:25:34,699 So to love god with our mind, and 692 00:25:34,699 --> 00:25:35,969 we all need to do this, 693 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:38,940 is have a have a daily intake of 694 00:25:38,940 --> 00:25:39,099 scripture, 695 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:40,539 scripture intake. 696 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:43,180 We... It made it so easy in our 697 00:25:43,180 --> 00:25:45,660 world to to to listen to the bible. 698 00:25:46,074 --> 00:25:48,312 On the the U version app. If you 699 00:25:48,312 --> 00:25:50,869 don't like to read, you can listen to 700 00:25:50,869 --> 00:25:53,127 scripture. But daily, flood your mind 701 00:25:53,666 --> 00:25:54,785 with scripture study. 702 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:55,839 Scripture. 703 00:25:56,799 --> 00:25:57,839 Learn scripture. 704 00:25:59,039 --> 00:26:01,599 Discuss scripture with other people. That's a way 705 00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:03,039 of loving God with your mind. 706 00:26:03,934 --> 00:26:06,651 And then learning to understand better and to 707 00:26:06,651 --> 00:26:07,151 interpret 708 00:26:08,329 --> 00:26:10,806 scripture better. Second thing is the heart. 709 00:26:13,532 --> 00:26:16,549 Head, heart and hands. To love God, with 710 00:26:16,549 --> 00:26:18,852 my heart is taking what Jesus said was 711 00:26:18,852 --> 00:26:20,996 the greatest command, and it's learning to love 712 00:26:21,076 --> 00:26:24,278 God with that in most first part of 713 00:26:24,278 --> 00:26:26,910 me. That seat of affection is what, 714 00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:30,100 when the bible talks about heart, it's not 715 00:26:30,100 --> 00:26:32,667 talking about the thing beating, right? Now. It's 716 00:26:32,667 --> 00:26:34,979 talking about that in most part of who 717 00:26:34,979 --> 00:26:36,973 you are, the seat of affection. 718 00:26:37,611 --> 00:26:40,481 As Proverbs says, from the heart flow, all 719 00:26:40,481 --> 00:26:42,890 the... Wells springs of life. 720 00:26:44,966 --> 00:26:46,084 Ephesians 05:18 721 00:26:46,084 --> 00:26:46,903 through 20 722 00:26:47,281 --> 00:26:49,356 be filled with the holy spirit, 723 00:26:50,888 --> 00:26:51,388 singing 724 00:26:51,924 --> 00:26:54,817 songs and h and spiritual songs 725 00:26:55,433 --> 00:26:56,230 among yourselves, 726 00:26:56,868 --> 00:26:58,942 and making music to the Lord in your 727 00:26:58,942 --> 00:26:59,260 hearts, 728 00:27:00,231 --> 00:27:02,460 and give thanks for everything to God the 729 00:27:02,460 --> 00:27:04,529 father in the name of our Lord Jesus 730 00:27:04,688 --> 00:27:05,006 Christ. 731 00:27:06,121 --> 00:27:07,257 That's a that's how 732 00:27:07,567 --> 00:27:09,790 what we do is we sing from our 733 00:27:09,790 --> 00:27:12,171 heart. When we come to worship together corporate. 734 00:27:12,647 --> 00:27:14,949 It's not watching the worship team or listening 735 00:27:14,949 --> 00:27:15,822 to Christy singh. 736 00:27:16,393 --> 00:27:19,655 It's us entering in in and contemplating the 737 00:27:19,655 --> 00:27:21,746 words and singing psalms and Him 738 00:27:22,121 --> 00:27:22,757 from our heart. 739 00:27:23,409 --> 00:27:25,164 Now you don't need to be a church 740 00:27:25,164 --> 00:27:27,556 to worship. You know that. Right? You can 741 00:27:27,556 --> 00:27:29,630 worship in the shower, worship the car. 742 00:27:30,348 --> 00:27:31,943 I say belt it out. I'm a terrible 743 00:27:31,943 --> 00:27:33,952 singer, but man, I like to saying when 744 00:27:34,032 --> 00:27:37,062 I'm listening to worship songs, and and I 745 00:27:37,062 --> 00:27:38,817 don't sing very good, but God doesn't care 746 00:27:38,817 --> 00:27:40,731 right? Like, he's he's looking at my heart. 747 00:27:41,847 --> 00:27:45,357 Prayer thing pray from the heart, learning to 748 00:27:45,357 --> 00:27:47,205 pray in a relational 749 00:27:48,768 --> 00:27:49,268 way 750 00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:50,433 to God. 751 00:27:51,004 --> 00:27:51,882 He's our father, 752 00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:54,513 and we we talk to him, and we 753 00:27:54,513 --> 00:27:57,226 listen for the holy spirit to speak back 754 00:27:57,226 --> 00:27:57,624 to us. 755 00:27:58,502 --> 00:28:00,437 Loving God with your heart is ado. 756 00:28:02,027 --> 00:28:03,464 Jesus I adore you. 757 00:28:04,981 --> 00:28:08,334 It's humbling ourselves, giving him our best of 758 00:28:08,334 --> 00:28:08,653 factions. 759 00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:12,329 Head, heart and then hands. 760 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,423 Head heart and hands. And to love God 761 00:28:15,423 --> 00:28:16,241 with our hands 762 00:28:17,010 --> 00:28:18,279 is to be the hands and feet of 763 00:28:18,438 --> 00:28:20,998 Jesus, Right? It's loving god with all your 764 00:28:20,998 --> 00:28:21,498 strength 765 00:28:21,953 --> 00:28:23,464 by loving your neighbor, 766 00:28:24,021 --> 00:28:25,374 by loving your spouse, 767 00:28:25,931 --> 00:28:27,522 by loving your family. 768 00:28:28,094 --> 00:28:30,554 By loving your friends by loving your community. 769 00:28:30,872 --> 00:28:33,014 It's loving your neighbor as yourself. Next week, 770 00:28:33,173 --> 00:28:35,340 we're gonna look at what does it mean 771 00:28:36,210 --> 00:28:38,369 to love our neighbor in in that question 772 00:28:38,369 --> 00:28:40,369 that was asked of Jesus, who's my neighbor. 773 00:28:40,529 --> 00:28:42,210 We're gonna delve into that next week. So 774 00:28:42,289 --> 00:28:43,029 I'm not gonna 775 00:28:43,585 --> 00:28:45,744 I'm not gonna talk a ton about this 776 00:28:45,744 --> 00:28:46,805 right now, but 777 00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:49,424 I love this verse in Romans 12:11. 778 00:28:50,065 --> 00:28:51,744 Never be lacking in Z. 779 00:28:52,955 --> 00:28:55,739 But keep your spiritual fe, serving the lord. 780 00:28:56,614 --> 00:28:58,682 Keep that fire lit in your heart. 781 00:28:59,731 --> 00:29:02,139 By loving god with your mind 782 00:29:02,513 --> 00:29:04,978 and loving god, with your heart and soul, 783 00:29:05,693 --> 00:29:06,727 and by loving people. 784 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:09,480 That keeps that spiritual fe 785 00:29:10,019 --> 00:29:12,179 in our hearts going that flame at the 786 00:29:12,179 --> 00:29:13,700 every day. Because you know what? If we 787 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:15,859 don't fan it into flame and stoke the 788 00:29:15,859 --> 00:29:16,099 fire, 789 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:19,315 There's so many things vying for our attention 790 00:29:19,315 --> 00:29:21,955 and our affection. Am I right? Every day. 791 00:29:22,434 --> 00:29:24,455 So we need to be mindful of this 792 00:29:24,835 --> 00:29:25,555 relationship that we have. 793 00:29:26,764 --> 00:29:27,399 The other day, 794 00:29:28,591 --> 00:29:29,464 I was on a walk, 795 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:30,600 and 796 00:29:31,053 --> 00:29:33,913 Sea who sings with us on the worship 797 00:29:33,913 --> 00:29:35,502 team often when she's not working, 798 00:29:36,952 --> 00:29:38,868 I saw her car in our neighborhood. 799 00:29:39,586 --> 00:29:41,821 And she has this little yellow kia with 800 00:29:41,821 --> 00:29:43,657 a ovation sticker. I was like secrets in 801 00:29:43,657 --> 00:29:44,295 our neighborhood. 802 00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:46,787 And as I was walking up this hill, 803 00:29:46,947 --> 00:29:48,066 I could hear her talking. 804 00:29:49,664 --> 00:29:51,902 And I walked and I I saw and 805 00:29:51,981 --> 00:29:53,260 I said, hey, Sig. And she said, hey, 806 00:29:53,420 --> 00:29:55,267 Scott. And she's with a, 807 00:29:55,982 --> 00:29:57,119 this little girl 808 00:29:57,573 --> 00:29:59,482 who couldn't be more than 5 or 6 809 00:29:59,482 --> 00:30:00,619 years old that 810 00:30:01,089 --> 00:30:04,622 definitely was handicapped and had some sort of, 811 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,953 you know, down syndrome or something. And secret 812 00:30:07,953 --> 00:30:08,932 as a caregiver. 813 00:30:09,723 --> 00:30:11,416 And they were she had a coworker 814 00:30:11,791 --> 00:30:13,303 with her and she introduced me. Hey, as 815 00:30:13,303 --> 00:30:14,575 my pastor. Yeah, so forth. 816 00:30:15,211 --> 00:30:17,041 And they were just taking care of this 817 00:30:17,041 --> 00:30:17,597 little girl. 818 00:30:18,490 --> 00:30:21,049 Who... This is what Sig does with people 819 00:30:21,049 --> 00:30:23,049 in giving care. People who can't even give 820 00:30:23,049 --> 00:30:23,549 back 821 00:30:24,089 --> 00:30:24,410 to her. 822 00:30:25,049 --> 00:30:27,059 And she was just loving on this little 823 00:30:27,059 --> 00:30:28,333 girl, and they were gonna take her for 824 00:30:28,333 --> 00:30:30,086 a walk. I've seen this little girl be 825 00:30:30,086 --> 00:30:31,519 walked on our neighborhood a ton. I said, 826 00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:33,829 yeah. I've seen her before. High acuity potato 827 00:30:33,829 --> 00:30:35,619 and she like, hey, and 828 00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:39,295 I saw the hands of Jesus 829 00:30:39,913 --> 00:30:40,553 in sea. 830 00:30:41,751 --> 00:30:42,730 I saw sea 831 00:30:43,123 --> 00:30:44,790 loving God with all her strength. 832 00:30:45,902 --> 00:30:47,807 She have to say anything or do anything. 833 00:30:48,045 --> 00:30:50,212 She was just being the hands 834 00:30:50,919 --> 00:30:52,517 of Jesus to this little girl. 835 00:30:53,396 --> 00:30:54,594 She was loving her neighbor. 836 00:30:55,952 --> 00:30:56,511 Martin Luther, 837 00:30:57,150 --> 00:31:00,191 he said, God doesn't need our good works. 838 00:31:00,668 --> 00:31:01,941 He said, but our neighbors do. 839 00:31:03,850 --> 00:31:05,998 He doesn't need our good works, but people 840 00:31:05,998 --> 00:31:06,157 do. 841 00:31:08,727 --> 00:31:10,746 Let's be a people who 842 00:31:12,164 --> 00:31:13,303 daily, it's 843 00:31:13,842 --> 00:31:14,242 intentionally, 844 00:31:14,881 --> 00:31:16,000 and we wanna love God. 845 00:31:16,654 --> 00:31:17,615 With all that we have. 846 00:31:18,654 --> 00:31:20,335 None of us are gonna do this perfect. 847 00:31:20,975 --> 00:31:23,234 Only Jesus loved God perfectly 848 00:31:24,109 --> 00:31:26,427 in his neighbor as himself perfectly. 849 00:31:27,226 --> 00:31:28,925 But we certainly can strive 850 00:31:29,384 --> 00:31:29,884 to 851 00:31:31,382 --> 00:31:33,700 become like him and let him transform us. 852 00:31:34,352 --> 00:31:35,330 That's what he wants 853 00:31:35,787 --> 00:31:37,300 for each of us. You stand with me. 854 00:31:43,051 --> 00:31:45,360 After we, we're gonna sing a rep prize 855 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,474 of you've always loved me. 856 00:31:48,147 --> 00:31:49,522 After we sing that, I'm gonna 857 00:31:49,834 --> 00:31:52,062 close us in prayer, but I wanna invite 858 00:31:52,062 --> 00:31:54,131 you if you'd like to take comm, 859 00:31:54,768 --> 00:31:56,837 we have comm in the back corner over 860 00:31:56,837 --> 00:31:56,996 there. 861 00:31:57,888 --> 00:32:00,304 And, Vicky and Joe Mona. Be back there 862 00:32:00,363 --> 00:32:01,960 to help lead you if you would like 863 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,636 that. We take comm corporate, 864 00:32:04,035 --> 00:32:05,631 the first Sunday of the month, but we 865 00:32:05,631 --> 00:32:08,058 also offer it for people individually 866 00:32:08,751 --> 00:32:10,977 on a, all the rest of the Sundays. 867 00:32:11,852 --> 00:32:13,204 But as we sing this chorus, 868 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,146 go back to how do I love God, 869 00:32:16,797 --> 00:32:18,070 I need to know I'm love by the 870 00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:18,309 father. 871 00:32:19,025 --> 00:32:21,036 And you are loved infinitely and perfectly. 872 00:32:21,729 --> 00:32:25,030 And from there, everything else flows in learning 873 00:32:25,167 --> 00:32:25,884 to love God. 874 00:32:26,681 --> 00:32:27,717 Let's sing this together. 875 00:32:31,238 --> 00:32:32,695 You have always 876 00:33:46,778 --> 00:33:48,297 May the lord bless you and keep you, 877 00:33:48,457 --> 00:33:50,055 make his face shine upon you, 878 00:33:50,934 --> 00:33:53,332 lift up your count, be gracious to you 879 00:33:53,332 --> 00:33:55,010 and give you his peace this day. 880 00:33:55,980 --> 00:33:56,854 And forever more. 881 00:33:59,556 --> 00:34:00,533 May you know 882 00:34:01,304 --> 00:34:02,734 how loved you are? 883 00:34:04,498 --> 00:34:05,395 May you know 884 00:34:05,930 --> 00:34:08,238 the grace of god through the Lord Jesus 885 00:34:08,397 --> 00:34:08,715 Christ? 886 00:34:10,148 --> 00:34:12,058 May you know the fellowship of the holy 887 00:34:12,058 --> 00:34:12,376 spirit? 888 00:34:14,704 --> 00:34:15,763 And may you know 889 00:34:16,462 --> 00:34:17,841 love for 1 another 890 00:34:18,699 --> 00:34:21,118 in this community and the friendships 891 00:34:21,737 --> 00:34:22,636 that are here 892 00:34:25,343 --> 00:34:28,394 Lord thank you that you created us for 893 00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:28,931 relationship. 894 00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:31,982 You've now redeemed us through the Lord Jesus 895 00:34:32,771 --> 00:34:33,747 for an eternal 896 00:34:34,121 --> 00:34:36,267 relationship with you, and we say yes to 897 00:34:36,267 --> 00:34:36,426 that. 898 00:34:38,969 --> 00:34:39,579 Say yes 899 00:34:40,255 --> 00:34:43,356 to Jesus, agree with him today that he 900 00:34:43,356 --> 00:34:44,730 is the Lord of all 901 00:34:45,343 --> 00:34:46,774 and he's the savior of all. 902 00:34:48,777 --> 00:34:49,969 Where we agree with you? 903 00:34:51,401 --> 00:34:53,309 Cast your burdens upon the Lord. 904 00:34:54,422 --> 00:34:57,780 Cast your heartache and cast your your your 905 00:34:57,780 --> 00:34:58,179 struggles. 906 00:34:59,619 --> 00:35:00,179 On the lord. 907 00:35:00,980 --> 00:35:02,900 Let him sustain and you trust him. 908 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:05,619 Lord, we trust you. 909 00:35:08,187 --> 00:35:09,781 We give you our burdens today. 910 00:35:10,818 --> 00:35:12,492 Thank you for your love in Jesus name. 911 00:35:13,130 --> 00:35:13,289 Amen.