LOVE TO GOD

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Topic 10: Its Importance

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POINT 10: To love God with all the heart and with all the soul, and all the mind is the first and great commandment.

Matthew 22:37-38 [37] Jesus replied: " `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' [38] This is the first and greatest commandment.

Mark 12:29-34 [29] "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: `Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. [30] Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' [31] The second is this: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." [32] "Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. [33] To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices." [34] When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

Deuteronomy 10:12 [12] And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, [13] and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

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Topic 20: How Love to God is Manifested.

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POINT 10: The supreme manifestation of love to God is keeping His commandments.

Exodus 20:5-6 [5] You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, [6] but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

2 John 1:6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

1 John 5:3 [3] This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, [4] for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

This is love to God. Keeping God's commandments is more than merely obeying God's commandments. THe word translated "keep," expresses watchful care. It means to "attend to carefully," "take care of," "guard." So also the Old Testament word.

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POINT 20: Love to God is manifested by serving Him with all the heart and all the soul.

Paul in writing to the Thessalonians speaks of their "labor of love." The word for "labor" denotes "intense" labor, "toil." The one who loves God will labor intensely for Him. An easy-going Christian life proves an absence of love for God.

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POINT 30: Love to God manifests itself in a hatred of evil.

Psalms 97:10 Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

The man who loves God cannot regard sin with favor or indifference. He hates it. All sin. THere is no small sin to him.

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POINT 40: Love to God manifests itself in not loving the world.

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

The man who loves God cannot set his affections upon the world with its gain and its honor, and its pleasure, and its gratifications. All that is in the world is not of the Father, it draws away from Him, and a lover of God cannot love it.

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POINT 50: Love to God is manifested by a love to God's children, our brethren.

1 John 4:20-21 [20] If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. [21] And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

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Topic 30: Results of Love to God under the Old Covenant.

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POINT 10: The blessings and promises under the Old Covenant were for those who loved God.

Deuteronomy 5:9-10 [9] You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, [10] but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.

Psalms 69:34-36 [34] Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them, [35] for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it; [36] the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.

Psalms 91:14 "Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name."

Psalms 145:20 The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Isaiah 56:6-7 [6] And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD to serve him, to love the name of the LORD, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant -- [7] these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations."

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Topic 35: Results of Love to God Under the New Covenant

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POINT 10: God knows those who love Him.

1 Corinthians 8:3 But the man who loves God is known by God.

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POINT 20: The Crown of Life is for those who love God.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

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POINT 30: The Kingdom is promised to those who love God.

James 2:5 Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?

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POINT 40: God has prepared for those who love Him things greater than those which man has seen or heard, or which have entered into man's heart -- deep things which the Spirit alone searches and reveals.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 [9] However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" -- [10] but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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POINT 50: All things work together for good for those who love God.

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

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POINT 60: Those who love God are "the called according to his purpose", "foreknown", "foreordained to be conformed to the image of His Son", "justified", "glorified."

Romans 8:28-30 [28] And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. [29] For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. [30] And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

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Topic 40: How to Get Love to God.

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POINT 10: We got love to God by being born of God.

1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

We are not saved by loving God, we are saved to loving God.

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POINT 20: We get love to God by believing in and meditating upon His love to us.

1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.

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POINT 30: God, in answer to prayer, directs our hearts into the Love of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

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