You know, cars of old, especially every once in a while you had to tune them up, you still do.
But things have progressed in technology today so that it doesn't happen as frequently, but
you still need to tune your car. You know that's sort of an analogy I want to use today, because
spiritually many times we need a tune-up. In the Bible we saw how Jesus taught his disciples
to wash their feet. I mean, it was a custom. But I mean he served his
team himself, and washed their feet, and we realized that that foot washing was
a way to relieve the stress, and to minister and bring peace, and blessing to the individual
whose feet were being washed. A time of refreshing, and we need to, we get to tune up our souls, and we
get to tune up our, especially our thinking, as a lot of times we just we gain clutter, and sort
of the dust of this world wants to settle in on our thought life, and our attitude, and our
those are things that we can't allow because we want to be transformed, and renewed through the
word of God, and we don't want to reflect the world, we want to reflect the kingdom of God at all times.
Jesus took time to separate himself, and to go into the mountains and pray. Jesus knew what it was like,
in a sense, to have a spiritual tune up, to get away from everything and to renew himself, like
the eagle renews itself, and we're taught that in scripture. I want you to look with
me in Ephesians chapter 3, verse, I have verses 14 through 19 marked off.
But we may not get through all of them, but it's that passage that I want you to look at with me.
Actually verse 17 is what we'll start with, it says that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,
I want to encourage you to get your communion elements, because I want to break bread with you.
I want God to break bread with us, and then we're going to have a tune up here, concerning the love
of God in our lives. Because there's so much hatred in the world, there's so much division in the world,
there's so much violence in the world, but that's not the kingdom of God, and that's not how God
expects, or has called us to walk. That's not how Jesus walked, and it's certainly not
how we walk, or going to walk. We are going to find ourselves in him today,
hide ourselves in him today we're going to allow God to fill us, but
it says here that you might be filled with all the fullness of God, and how are we filled with
all the fullness of God? He says that you would be able, that you would be rooted, and grounded in love.
You know love is the key, because we know obviously that God is love, the key to this
study today, and to our communion today, and to our relationship with God today. First God loved us,
and hence now we love him. It's not religion, it's not have to do anything, it's want to.
Our lives are shaped by those who love us.
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, but loving has to come before living.
To live forever is to love forever, love transforms from selfishness, to being a servant. That's how
servants are made, they're touched by the love of God. Prior to that it's me, me, me, and I, I, I.
The three most profound words you will ever hear
is that God is love. He doesn't have to try to love us, it's who he is.
Love surpasses all the knowledge of man.
We cannot adequately describe love, I mean you could preach a sermon on every one of
these, we don't have time for that, but I want you to think about these words.
There's the if kind of love, if you do something for me i'll love you. There's the because
kind of love, I love you because you're rich. But then there's the in spite of kind of love,
he loves us through all of our faults, and through all of our failures.
Are you getting tuned up with the love of God right now? I certainly am, I need this, how about you?
People will stop loving you, people will.
Man's love fails, but the love of God, everybody say it never fails.
You're loved, and I'm loved with an everlasting love. He says I am with you always.
Listen the mark of Christianity
is to love the unlovable, that's the love of God, the mark of Christianity is our loving everyone.
Let the love of God fill you now.
Love isn't what we say, but love is what we do, it's action. We're not living until we discover
the love of God. Now, let's let God baptize us shall we, with his love so that we can,
as Ephesians says, live in the fullness of God. Someone's hurt you, someone's left you,
someone's talked about you, someone's stepped on your toes so to speak, someone's rejected you.
God will never reject you,
and the enemy wants to use humans to separate us from the love of God.
Jesus even though he was persecuted, loved those
who despised him.
You say I can't do it, yes you can, because God's going to give you that miracle right now.
The night that Jesus was betrayed he took bread and he broke it, and he said
this is my body, broken for you. This is love my friends, let's enjoy
the fact that we are loved by God unconditionally.
Lord make us one as we partake, as the body, as we partake of your body through faith,
as we partake by believing as Jesus is Lord of our lives, let's partake of the bread.
Receive him, let him be ruler over all that you are, and let him
allow you to become things that you would never become without him. That night he took the cup
and he blessed it,
and he said this cup is my blood, the blood of a covenant that I am making with you forever.
We'll never need a heifer, we'll never need a sacrifice, because the one time, the one sacrifice
that Jesus gave the father for us, on our behalf, his body, his blood, his life
stands in eternity, cleansing us from all of our unrighteousness.
God wants to deliver someone from the habits of sinfulness, we all sin.
But believers don't sin habitually, in other words don't practice sin, because God delivers
us from the practice of sin, God delivers us from the stain of sin. We become the righteousness of
God as you drink with us now by faith, and you say Jesus cleanse me eternally by that blood.
You're going to experience that in practice, you're going to experience that
in your daily walk. The grace that the blood of Jesus bestows upon our lives.
Let's drink the cup, and receive all that Jesus is, in forgiveness, and power now, in Jesus' name Amen.
Now we pray for you, and we bless you, and we honor God, and we thank you for God giving
strength, and power, that we might experience this feeling of the fullness of God, through
the power of his love, God bless you, he loves you so much. He's all we'll ever need, Amen, so be it.
So great to have confidence, and boldness because we have a heavenly father that loves us more than
we can comprehend, who cares for us, and who has a whole plan for our lives, he is and he
calls himself the great provider. There's something, such confidence that God gives us, something about
knowing him. The peace is what it is that passes all comprehension, understanding. As
we're taking this time to sow, and to worship God in our giving, we just want to focus %100 on him,
and remember that it's through your praise that you defeat, and God is allowed to defeat,
on our behalf, our enemy. Because we allow him to, because we give him preference. God wants to bring
great joy in your life, God wants to touch the people that you're praying for, and the people
that you love, and the people that are around you, and we want to thank you so much for partnering
with the House of Destiny. I want to encourage you all to go to our website and
make sure that you join our online church, and online community, and become partners with us.
The apostles had partners, Jesus had partners, and we have partners just like you, that are
blessing the gospel throughout the world. So we pray now that God would strengthen you, that God
would encourage you, that God would speak to your hearts, and that he would reveal the depths of
his love to you, in Jesus name, as we put him first, and we do right now, and everybody said so be it.
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