FALL in love with Jesus Part 3
I Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
- When we Fall in love with Jesus
- Noah – Wife, Ham – Sham – Japheth (And their wives).
Genesis 6: 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent[d] of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6: 22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
- How does a man, hear the voice of God, take his wife and children, and SAVE the Human Race? * Because his relationship with God.
- What if the entire Human Race was contingent on your faithfulness, this morning?
Notice: His house was in order: He didn’t do this alone, His LOVE of God carried over to his wife – not only his wife, but his boys, not only his boys but his daughters-in-laws.
- Have you fallen in love with JESUS enough that everyone around you sees it, wants it, and will give everything they have to LIVE IT!
Abraham - Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
- Leave your town! Leave your daddy! Leave your family!
Even the examples of Noah and Abraham give us examples of human failure.
- Noah gets drunk, lies naked.
- Abraham was told to leave his family but took Lot (his nephew) and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Plus, lies and acts like Sarah is his sister… about gets killed.
- Then, there’s Ismeal, which we are still paying for today!
God doesn’t need you to be perfect, He needs you to be YOU!
- Not only do we need to FALL in love with Jesus, we need to understand God’s love for us: Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Mary Magdalene
Luke 7: 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil,
38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.
39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
The widow
Mark 12: 41 Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much.
42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two [a]mites, which make a quadrans.
43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;
44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”