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Title: The Kingdom of Right Relationships


1
The Kingdom of Right Relationships
  • Part 2
  • Loving God the Father
  • Matthew 2234-40

2
Living in Four Relationships
  • Whoever you are
  • Wherever you live
  • Whatever your values or philosophy of life
  • You live in four relationships
  • You must relate in some way
  • To God
  • To Self
  • To your significant others
  • To the world

3
Living in Four Relationships
  • The quality of these relationships
  • Live in the Kingdom of Right Relationships
  • Live in the world
  • The Good News
  • Jesus Christ can enter into a human life and
    redeem it in all four of these dimensions or
    relationships

4
The Most Important Relationship
  • The one which exists between you and God
  • It is impossible to escape this relationship
  • Even for those who deny the existence of a
    Supreme Being
  • People who profess not to believe in God spend a
    great deal of time
  • Denying Him, fighting Him, explaining Him away,
    or attempting to prove wrong those who do believe
    in Him
  • Even this is a relationship!

5
The Most Important Relationship
  • Built into every human being is an instinctive
    sense that there is Someone or Something out
    there that cannot be ignored
  • Ecclesiastes 311
  • He has made everything beautiful in its time.
    Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except
    that no one can find out the work that God does
    from beginning to end
  • Isaiah 5715
  • For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits
    eternity, whose name is Holy I dwell in the
    high and holy place, With him who has a contrite
    and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the
    humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite
    ones

6
The Most Important Relationship
  • A right relationship
  • One has heard the good news that God says to us
    in Jesus Christ
  • I love you. I love you as you are. I love you
    unconditionally. I have already given myself to
    you totally, and now all I ask is that you begin
    to respond to my love and my commitment to you by
    committing to me all of yourself that you are
    able to give.
  • This is what the cross is all about

7
The CommandmentMatthew 2237-38
  • Scribe Which is the great commandment in the
    law?
  • Christs answer was powerful
  • Love the Lord thy God
  • Love God as your very own God
  • Your is a personal relationship, not a distant
    relationship
  • God is personal and we are to be personally
    involved with Him on a face to face basis
  • Loving God is an act that is alive and active
  • We are to maintain a personal relationship with
    God that is alive and active

8
The CommandmentMatthew 2237-38
  • Loving God involves the very same factors as
    loving a person
  • A loving relationship involves commitment and
    loyalty
  • God irrevocably says, You shall have no other
    gods before me - Exodus 203
  • A loving relationship involves trust and respect
    just for who he is
  • He is the Creator and Sustainer of life
  • He is the Savior and Redeemer of our souls
  • He is the Lord and Owner of our lives
  • A loving relationship involves the giving and
    surrendering of oneself
  • A loving relationship involves knowing and sharing

9
Love Commanded Is Controllable
  • Loving God is commanded!
  • It is the greatest of all commandments
  • The importance of a personal relationship with
    God cannot be overstated
  • Is it possible to command somebody to love?
  • Yes! Love is an act of the will
  • We choose to relate to God no matter how we may
    feel

10
Whole LoveMatthew 2237-38
  • Jesus replied
  • Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
    with all your soul and with all your mind. This
    is the first and greatest commandment
  • From Deuteronomy 65
  • A persons total being must be involved in loving
    God
  • Nothing must be held back because God holds
    nothing back in loving us!

11
Our Response to Gods LoveIs To Be Total
  • The total personhood of each individual is to be
    involved in the fulfillment of this commandment
  • Each of these components express your love
  • Heart refers primarily to our emotional
    response
  • Soul includes the willful, decision-making part
    of us
  • Mind refers to the reasoning component of our
    love for God

12
Agape Love
  • The distinctive Christian word for love
    agapao
  • Totally unselfish love
  • We are capable of agape only with the help of the
    Holy Spirit
  • Agape is self-giving love
  • It is love which desires only the highest good
    for its object
  • God loves you and He desires only your highest
    good
  • He cannot desire anything for you that will
    compromise holiness, righteousness, or His very
    best for you
  • Agape is unconditional love
  • It loves no matter what is happening
  • It is a choice that we make, an act of will, no
    matter how we feel
  • This is the kind of love we are commanded to have
    for God and others
  • It is also the kind of love we are expected to
    have for ourselves

13
Loving God the Father
  • The Fathers Highest Good
  • Agape love seeks the highest good for the object
    of its love
  • So what is the highest good for God?
  • John 171-5

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John 171-5
  1. Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to
    heaven, and said Father, the hour has come.
    Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify
    You,
  2. as You have given Him authority over all flesh,
    that He should give eternal life to as many as
    You have given Him.
  3. And this is eternal life, that they may know You,
    the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have
    sent.
  4. I have glorified You on the earth. I have
    finished the work which You have given Me to do.
  5. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with
    Yourself, with the glory which I had with You
    before the world was.

15
Loving God the Father
  • Westminster Shorter Catechism
  • Mans chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy
    him for ever
  • To glorify God forever
  • 1 Corinthians1031 - Whether therefore you eat,
    or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the
    glory of God
  • Whatever you do, do all to Gods glory!
  • We will glorify God forever with our praise, with
    our words, with our works, and with our whole
    life
  • The second end of man is to enjoy God forever
  • God has put us on this earth for a purpose
  • It is a purpose bigger than us
  • We are here to live for Gods glory and to enjoy
    God, starting today and continuing throughout
    eternity

16
Loving God the Father
  • Contrast the philosophy of the world
  • The chief end of man is to glorify himself, and
    to enjoy the good life as long as he can
  • Your Choice
  • Put God at the center of all things
  • Puts man at the center
  • The philosophy you choose to live by will
    literally determine everything in your life
  • It will set your priorities
  • It will determine your values
  • In the end, it will determine your eternal destiny

17
Loving God the Father
  • There is no higher calling than to live for Gods
    glory
  • But just how do we accomplish this?
  • How do we love God?

18
Have Faith - Trust Him! Hebrews 116
  • And without faith it is impossible to
    please Him, for he who comes to God must believe
    that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who
    seek Him
  • One of the great verses of Scripture
  • Should be memorized and held within the heart of
    every believer
  • It is impossible to please God without faith!
  • A living, active faith
  • A faith that knows and follows God
  • A faith that communes with and fellowships with
    God

19
Have Faith - Trust Him! Hebrews 116
  • The person who comes to God must believe 2 things
  • He must believe in God that God is that God
    exists
  • A person must look at the worlds (heaven and
    earth) and at himself - at the existence, design,
    order, and end of all things and believe in God
  • A person must look at the Word of God, and
    believe in God
  • A person must look at Jesus Christ, who reveals
    God to man, and believe in God

20
Have Faith - Trust Him! Hebrews 116
  • The person who comes to God must believe 2 things
  • He must believe in God that God is that God
    exists
  • He must believe that God rewards those who
    diligently seek Him
  • diligently means to diligently seek out God to
    find Him and to follow Him
  • Be in earnest and persevere and endure to the end
  • What is the reward to those who diligently seek
    God?
  • Righteousness and Gods care in this life and
    deliverance from death unto eternal life

21
Have Faith - Trust Him!
  • Trials that test our faith
  • A great issue in the life of faith
  • The only way to find out if faith is real is to
    go through a trial

22
Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest
  • Faith must be tested, because it can only become
    your intimate possession through conflict. What
    is challenging your faith right now? The test
    will either prove your faith right, or it will
    kill it. Jesus said, "Blessed is he who is not
    offended because of Me" Matthew 116
  • The ultimate thing is confidence in Jesus. "We
    have become partakers of Christ if we hold the
    beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end
    . . ." Hebrews 314.
  • Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that
    challenges you will strengthen your faith.
  • There is continual testing in the life of faith
    up to the point of our physical death, which is
    the last great test.
  • Faith is absolute trust in God trust that could
    never imagine that He would forsake us.

23
Have Faith - Trust Him!
  • Trials that test our faith
  • A great issue in the life of faith
  • The only way to find out if faith is real is to
    go through a trial
  • Loving God means to have faith in Him and to
    trust Him no matter what is happening in your life

24
Worship Him
  • John 423-24
  • But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true
    worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
    truth for such people the Father seeks to be His
    worshipers.
  • God is spirit, and those who worship Him must
    worship in spirit and truth.
  • God seeks and desires true worship!
  • Christ has opened the door into Gods presence so
    we can worship Him!
  • True worshippers worship God in spirit and in
    truth

25
Worship Him in Spirit and Truth
  • To worship God in spirit means to worship God...
  • Seeking the most intimate communion and
    fellowship with God
  • Trusting and resting in Gods love and care
  • To worship God in truth means...
  • Approach God in the true way, through His Son
    Jesus Christ - John 421 John 146
  • Worship God sincerely and truthfully, not
    half-heartedly or with a wandering mind
  • The reason for worship
  • God desires worship, for He created man to
    worship and fellowship with Him
  • Loving God means that we will worship Him no
    matter what is happening in our lives!

26
Enjoy Him
  • Psalm 7325
  • Whom have I in heaven but You?And there is none
    upon earth that I desire besides You.
  • All our delight is in God, and in nothing else
  • This is enjoying God forever
  • Psalms 1087
  • God has spoken in His holiness I will rejoice
  • When you hear somebody speak, whom you love, and
    in whom you find joy you will rejoice.
  • Psalm 924
  • For You, O LORD, have made me glad by what You
    have done, I will sing for joy at the works of
    Your hands
  • Our response to enjoying Him is always praise and
    worship and singing!

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Enjoy Him
  • We find joy in the things of God
  • In His Word - when we read the Scripture, we
    experience joy
  • Jeremiah 1516 Your words were found, and I ate
    them, And Your word was to me the joy and
    rejoicing of my heart
  • There is great joy in seeking fellowship with God
    through prayer and sharing with Him
  • Loving God means that we enjoy fellowship with
    Him, especially when things are not going well in
    our lives!

28
Obey Him
  • Loving God with all your heart and soul and mind
    means obeying Him
  • Ezekiel 2019
  • I am the LORD your God walk in My statutes and
    keep My ordinances and observe them
  • Psalm 335
  • He loves righteousness and justice
  • 1 Thessalonians 41-3
  • Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you
    in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us
    instruction as to how you ought to walk and
    please God (just as you actually do walk), that
    you excel still more.
  • For you know what commandments we gave you by the
    authority of the Lord Jesus.
  • For this is the will of God, your sanctification
    . . .

29
Obey Him
  • Obedience honors God
  • Disobedience always dishonors God
  • Jesus said that men would see our good works and
    glorify God
  • That is the highest good for God!
  • The one who truly loves God is the one who truly
    obeys God, no matter what it costs him to do so!

30
Be Holy
  • 1 Peter 115-16
  • but as He who called you is holy, you also be
    holy in all your conduct,
  • because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy
  • Being Holy means
  • To be righteous, pure, sinless, and godly
  • To be complete, and fulfilled in every possible
    sense
  • To be separated and entirely different from all
    other beings and things

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Be Holy
  • 3 reasons why believers are to live holy lives
  • God is holy
  • He is the very embodiment and perfection of
    absolute holiness
  • Amos 33 Can two walk together, unless they
    are agreed?
  • God has called believers to be holy in all of
    life
  • Gods very purpose in saving us is to have a
    people who can live with Him eternally
  • Scripture demands holiness
  • Be holy for I am holy - Leviticus 1145
    192 207, 26

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Be Holy
  • What about the times when we are not holy?
  • Romans 715 For that which I am doing, I do not
    understand for I am not practicing what I would
    like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate
  • Paul is saying
  • Even though he did not always do what was right,
    he always loved what was right and longed to do
    what was honoring to God
  • He was like David, A man after Gods own heart
  • True love of God desires to be holy
  • If we love God, then we must desire to live Holy
    as God is Holy, no matter what is happening in
    our lives!

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Love Others
  • 1 John 420
  • How can you love God, whom you have not seen, if
    you cannot love your brother whom you have seen?
  • There is a direct connection between our
    relationship with God and our relationship with
    man
  • This is affirmed and reaffirmed many times in
    Scripture!
  • Missionary in a Middle Eastern country
  • Some people say it is our love for these people
    that keeps us here, but they arent THAT
    loveable! It is because of HIS great love for
    these people that keeps us here were being
    obedient to Him. 
  • They love others because they love God
  • If we love God, then we must love others no
    matter what they are like and no matter how they
    treat us!

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How do we know that we really love God?
  • By responding to His love no matter what
  • 1 John 31-3
  • By seeking on Gods glory no matter what
  • Psalm 1813
  • By loving what God loves no matter what
  • Psalms 11972, 97, 103
  • By hating what God hates no matter what
  • Psalms 9710
  • By grieving over sin no matter what
  • Matthew 2675
  • By our love for one another no matter what
  • 1 John 419-21
  • By loving whom God loves no matter what
  • 1 John 51
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