March 10 2013 Letting Love Change Your Life
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LETTING LOVE CHANGE YOUR LIFE
John 13:1
John 13:1 - Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the word, He now showed them the full extent of His love.
Full extent: Love to the end.
Three Ways To Let God’s Love Change Us
1. Remember God’s love will cancel your past.
Colossians 2:14 - He has forgiven all our sins and canceled every record of the debt we had to pay. He did it by allowing Christ to be nailed to the cross.
Jeremiah 31:34 - I will remember their sins no more.
How Does This Happen?
I John 1:9 - If we confess our sins He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins.
Why Can God Cancel the Past?
John 19:30 - “It is finished.”
Romans 8:1 - Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14 - I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
2. Allow God’s love to conquer your problems.
Romans 8:35 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Verse 37 - Know in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the spirit is love.
Romans 8:28 -God works for the good of those who love Him.
3. Understand that God’s love will change your life.
Three Steps:
* Ask Christ to be a part of your life.
II Corinthians 5:17 - If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone, the new has come!
* Completely devote yourself to Christ.
Mark 12:28-29 - Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
* It’s a lifetime process.
Romans 12:2 - Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its mold, but let God remake you so that your whole attitude of mind is changed. Thus you will prove in practice that the will of God is good, acceptable to Him and perfect.
One More Thing To Consider:
* Don’t put it off.
John 13:1 - He now showed them the full extent of His love.
