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“Do You Truly Love God” by Pastor Fee Soliven Matthew 22:34-40 Sunday Morning February 17, 2013

“Do You Truly Love God” by Pastor Fee Soliven Matthew 22:34-40 Sunday Morning February 17, 2013. Matthew 22:34-40

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“Do You Truly Love God” by Pastor Fee Soliven Matthew 22:34-40 Sunday Morning February 17, 2013

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  1. “Do You Truly Love God” by Pastor Fee Soliven Matthew 22:34-40 Sunday Morning February 17, 2013

  2. Matthew 22:34-40 34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37 Jesus said to him, " 'You shall

  3. love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

  4. Matthew 22:37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind”

  5. Misconceptions About Loving God

  6. 1. Mistaking the Fear of the Lord for Love of Him

  7. Matthew 22:37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind”

  8. 2. Confusing our Need with Love

  9. Proverbs 8:17 "I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me"

  10. Psalm 97:10 "You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked"

  11. 3. Equating Serving God with Loving Him

  12. Luke 10:38-42 (New Living Translation) 38 Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet

  13. and heard His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me." 41 And Jesus answered and said to

  14. her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her."

  15. 4. Assuming Giving is always a Sign of Love

  16. Luke 11:37-42 (New Living Translation) 37 As Jesus was speaking, one of the Pharisees invited him home for a meal. So he went in and took his place at the table.* 38 His host was amazed to see that he sat down to eat without first

  17. performing the hand-washing ceremony required by Jewish custom. 39 Then the Lord said to him, “You Pharisees are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and wickedness! 40 Fools! Didn’t

  18.  God make the inside as well as the outside? 41 So clean the inside by giving gifts to the poor, and you will be clean all over. 42 “What sorrow awaits you Pharisees! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb

  19. gardens, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.

  20. 5. Thinking that Religious acts Equal Love for God

  21. Psalm 51:15-17 15 O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise. 16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. 17

  22. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart--These, O God, You will not despise.

  23. Why don’t people love the Lord?

  24. John 14:1-3 1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and

  25. prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

  26. 1. They don’t know Him

  27. Matthew 7:21-23 21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied

  28. in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

  29. 2. They’re afraid of the Lord’s Judgment

  30. John 5:24-25 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life"

  31. 3. They’re Uncomfortable because their Sin doesn’t mix with His holiness

  32. 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial?

  33. Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall

  34. be My people." 17 Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."

  35. 4. They don’t want to Alter their Lifestyles

  36. Romans 2:4-10 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your

  37. impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who "will render to each one according to his deeds": 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in

  38. doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first

  39. and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

  40. 5. They feel uncertain about God and the Future because they have no Assurance about what Awaits them after Death

  41. Hebrews 9:27 (Unbeliever) "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment"

  42. John 3:16 (Believer) "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"

  43. Why should we Love God?

  44. John 13:33-35 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

  45. "The Lord created us"

  46. "He’s given us His Son"

  47. "God has made Commitments to Us"

  48. Hebrews 13:5 "The Lord will never leave nor forsake us"

  49. Philippians 4:19 "He’ll supply all our needs"

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