Free To Love

Summary:

How does one become “Free to Love”?

There are guidelines in God ’s love to follow

“ Love the Lord your God with all of your heart.....”

Show Notes:

• Without guidelines, life will be destructive

• Eliminate our negative responses to differences

• God put something of Himself in us

References:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey 1989 page 98

Proverbs 22:6 

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverb 29:18 

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Matthew 7:16 

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Matthew 5:45 

So that you will become the children of your Father who is in Heaven, for his sun rises on the good and upon the evil and his rain descends on the just and on the unjust.

Mark 12:30, 31 

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

Luke 23:34 

But Jesus was saying, “ Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.

Quotes:

• God’s love is not human love

• We are seeing chaos, destruction, and a mess in the world

• We want to lift the limitations of appearances

• There is a lot to learn from people not sitting in pews

Take Away:

Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”

John 14:21 NLT