As You Love Yourself (4 of 6)
Sun 16 Aug 2009 AM « Back to Top
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Now God's calling the church, calls every person, to serve. Love always serves others, but if you're not happy about who you are, you'll use the serving as a way of fulfilling an unmet need inside, so God wants us to place value on ourselves. So I want to focus on 'as you love yourself.' So what do you believe about yourself? When you look in the mirror and you look there, you look at that person the re, what do you think?
I want you to have a look in your Bible in Matthew, Chapte r 22. We we re sharing a series on the Extravagant Love, and we started off with the love of God. We looked into it, and we'll just start up whe re I was at, then I want to pick up and just do something to get you to think about your own inner life, and how to actually change on the inside.
In Matthe w 22, Ve rses 36 to 40, we read this. Jesus was asked, Teacher, what's the great commandment in the law? He said you will love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And so for three Sundays, we share d first of all on God's extravagant love for us, and how we can connect by faith to that; the second one, we began to share on how to ex press love to God, various ways we can do that, a numbe r of ways we can express our love to God. Love nee ds to be expressed. You can't just have it, and not give it away. Doug was talking about that today, about having lived in a family where the re was love in the heart, but no expre ssion, and this is alwa