Loving God and Loving Each Other

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LOVING GOD
LOVING EACH OTHER
Sharon Riekenberg September 12, 2017
Theme: “Interests of Others”
Theme verse: Phil. 2:3-5 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus
How should we describe a mind apart from the Word of God and before salvation?
God says: naïve/foolish/wayward thinking; Proverbs 1:22b “fools hate knowledge”
Wisdom says: (Proverbs)

1st and foremost commandment: Mtt. 22:37, 38
2nd commandment like it: Mtt. 22:39, 40
Worthiness of our God in His commandments: Job 38:4, 12; 39:19, 26; 40:12; 42:11
Commands from the OT: Deuteronomy 6:5, 6; Leviticus 19:18
Commands from the NT: Mtt. 22:34-40
Significant words in the commands:
1) God
2) Love
3) Heart
4) Soul
5) Mind
How do I know I am meeting the mark?
1 John 2:3-6 Keep His commandments!
Hosea 6:6; Ephesians 5:29a; Romans 13:8
LOVE DOES NO WRONG TO A NEIGHBOR!


1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
1. Love is patient.
2. Love is kind.
3. Love is not envious.
4. Love does not brag.
5. Love is not arrogant.
6. Love does not act unbecomingly.
7. Love does not seek its own.
8. Love is not provoked.
9. Love does not take into account a wrong suffered.
10. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness.
11. Love rejoices with the truth.
12. Love bears all things.
13. Love believes all things.
14. Love hopes all things.
15. Love endures all things.
Love never fails!
Cultivating a Biblical Mind-set”*
The redeemed mind achieves great gains. Ps. 119:97-104
We are to love God with our mind (Mtt. 22:37) and with our walk (2 John 6)
The ruin of man’s intellectual capacity:
(see additional handout – “The Dirty Dozen”)
The unregenerate mind is “always learning and never able to arrive at the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7);
The unregenerate mind has “a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge” (Romans 10:2)
Our minds can be reclaimed! (see addition handout)
Richard Mayhew: “The ultimate form of idolatry would be to reject the mind of God in Scripture and worship at the altar of one’s own independent thinking.”

*”Cultivating a Biblical Mind-Set” by Richard Mayhue from John MacArthur’s book,
THINK BIBLICALLY