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Being L oved & Being Like Jesus

Discover the transformative power of God's love and how it shapes us to become more like Jesus. Explore biblical teachings, personal growth, and the importance of community in this journey.

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Being L oved & Being Like Jesus

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  1. Being Loved & Being Like Jesus 2 Cor. 3:17-18

  2. What is life all about? What do I know?

  3. Bible Scholar Deep thinker Many, many thick books

  4. “Can you sum up all you have learned in in a sentence?”

  5. “Yes. In the words of a song I learned at my mother’s knee: ‘Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so’.”

  6. Deut. 4:31 The LORD your God will have mercy — he won’t destroy you or desert you. The LORD will remember his promise, and he will keep the agreement he made with your ancestors.

  7. Psalm 86:15 But you, the Lord God, are kind and merciful. You don’t easily get angry, and your love can always be trusted.

  8. 1Tim. 1:15   “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” This saying is true, and it can be trusted. I was the worst sinner of all! 16 But since I was worse than anyone else, God had mercy on me and let me be an example of the endless patience of Christ Jesus. He did this so that others would put their faith in Christ and have eternal life.

  9. Loved.

  10. He is at work in you and I…

  11. Heb. 12:4-11 (The Message Bible) In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children?

  12. My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline,     but don’t be crushed by it either. It’s the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects.

  13. God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God?

  14. We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God’s training so we can truly live? While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best. At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.

  15. 11 It is never fun to be corrected. In fact, at the time it is always painful. But if we learn to obey by being corrected, we will do right and live at peace.

  16. God’s Design for us: That we will be more and more like Jesus

  17. 2 Cor 3:17 The Lord and the Spirit are one and the same, and the Lord’s Spirit sets us free. 18 So our faces are not covered. They show the bright glory of the Lord, as the Lord’s Spirit makes us more and more like our glorious Lord.

  18. Change isn’t easy…The truth: We don’t change by ourselves

  19. Eph. 4:14   We must stop acting like children. We must not let deceitful people trick us by their false teachings, which are like winds that toss us around from place to place. 15 Love should always make us tell the truth. Then we will grow in every way and be more like Christ, the head 16 of the body. Christ holds it together and makes all of its parts work perfectly, as it grows and becomes strong because of love.

  20. Why do we gather together? To grow to be more Like Jesus.

  21. Heart Surgery…

  22. Luke 6:45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

  23. Is your house church, triad, team a place where people share their struggles and feelings?

  24. Rom. 6:17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.

  25. Our God loves us. He is patient, merciful, and giving. • He is patiently working in us, helping us be more like Jesus inside and out. • We gather to help each other become more like Jesus. • We have to look at what’s going on inside us. Our groups need to help us do that. Is God talking to you about any of this? Share that.

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