A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:34-35 A. A Chief Evidence of New Birth and Revival 1. New Birth: The Giving of God’s…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
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JOHN 17:24-26: Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I…
The Christian life is one of constant conflict between desire to please the Lord by obedience and falling short in practice of pleasing the Lord. Aren’t we glad the Lord loves us anyway?
Where is your satisfaction? We are going to seek it in something or someone. We are either going to pursue it in the many pleasures of this world and human relationships, or in a holy relationship with the living God.
JOHN 19:18 – There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. THEME OF THE DAY. DEFEATING TEMPTATION: FOUR WORDS TOWARD VICTORY. God’s Word tells us a couple things about temptation to sin. They are found in the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church – No temptation has overtaken you that is…
JOHN 5:39–42 – You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from people. But I know that you do not have the love of God within you. THEME OF THE…