Today we continue our series on the fruits of the spirit. Looking tat the fruit that God would like to see produced in our lives, we today are going to again look at love. Today in our world we see so many selfish acts in the church and world that we wonder while we are in the shape that now live end. So I want us to look at selfishness and then will we need to do to have loving in our lives through the years.
- Relationships that last
- Ephesians 2 19 -22 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
- Serving others
- Mark 10: 41-45 And when the ten heard it, they began to be greatly displeased with James and John. But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
- Forget Self
- Luke 9:23 If anyone would come after me, he must deny self, and take up cross daily and follow me.
- Take care of your body
- Physically – Psalm 127:2 (New Living Translation) It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.
- Mentality – Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.
- Spiritually – II Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
You can download the PowerPoint presentation here: Love-that-lasts
