Part 8 In The Series: Do You Love Me? Message Title: LOVE: The Overflow of Abundance Review of the Do You Love Me Series Thus Far: Part 1 WHEN ALL WAS STRIPPED AWAY: Main Text 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 The Priority of Love, The Qualities of Love, The Permanence of Love When all was Stripped From Christ? His Love (Agape) was what was Left! Part 2 A LOVE THAT IS FREE TO FAIL: Main Text Galatians 5:13-21 When Love (Agape) Fails, Love Must Be Free & Able to Fail, Let Your Freedom Be Turned Into Action, I Get To Do, Everything I wish!, There is Total Freedom In Agape Love Part 3 A LOVE THAT IS FREE TO FAIL: Main Text 1 John 4:7-21 The DNA of God is Agape/Love, He Paid All of It, God Reveals Agape & Agape Reveals God, Don t Fail to Love First, Let the Big Love in You Never Fail to Love Part 4 The Love Triangle How To Love Him : Main Text John 21:15-19 What Cannot be Known: God has Great things prepared for you, The Impossible Command, Do You Love Me? Can You Agape/Love Me: When You have Loved them, You are Loving me: Part 5: Answering Your Question: Only You Can Answer Your Question, John 21:15-17 IS GOD LOVE? ARE YOU LOVE? WHO IS LOVED BY YOU? Matt 25:31-46, LOVE: Not Just My Neighbor, We have Received Grace So We Can Be Merciful, John 10:8, 1 Timothy 1:12-17 Part 6: Loving In Confidance Without Fear: Our Fear of Rejection - Gn 3:7-13, Jn 13:33-35, 1 Jn 4:18, Rom 8:15 Our Confidence in Gods Love, Actively Build Confidance Among The Rejected Cast Out Fear, Just As Christ, Has Loved, LOVE, Unconditional Love/Agape Casts Out Fear Part 7: Loving, Loving Brings Forgiveness: Texts: Matthew 18:1-35, 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, Matthew 6:9-13 Love Never Keeps Score, Rejoices in Truth Not Facts, Love Has No Limits, Blow The Lid Off, isn t Fair, Learn to Receive, Who ve We Imprisoned w/ Un-Forgiveness?, Waiting, Freedom, Set free Galatians 5:22-23 (NKJV) 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 1 Corinthians 13 (NKJV) 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [b]puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, [c]thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is [d]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Page 1,
1. Are You Full To Overflowing, Out To Others w/ Fruit? Jesus Fills Us To Overflow with Joy, Peace & Hope Romans 15:13 Joy, Peace & Hope - Romans 15 (NKJV) 1 We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples [Failings] of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to [HIS]edification. 3 For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me. 4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the [c]patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. 5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. 8 Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, And sing to Your name. 10 And again he says: Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people! 11 And again: Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! 12 And again, Isaiah says: There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope. 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. - The Tree Grows Before the Fruit Does! Fruit Production Takes Some Time but They will Know You By Your Fruit! - I can have salvation Righteousness without good fruit that bring about overcoming lifestyles 2. AbIde/Remain In Love, John 15:9-17 9 As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father s commandments and abide in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. Page 2,
3. Stagnation Brings Death, Declares Death To Everyone, Barrenness Overflow Defines the Overflowing Heart of Agape/Love, Joy, Peace Proverbs 4:18-23 Out of Your Heart Springs the Issues of Life 18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. 20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil. 4. Abundance/Surplus of the Heart Speaks Out Matthew 12:33-37 33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 Brood[f] of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure [g]of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. Luke 6:43-45 43 For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil [i]treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. 5. Out Flow Is Dependent On Inflow! John 7:37-39 37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes (DEPENDS/TRUSTS) in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Page 3,
6. Let Love Be The Overflowing Theme of Your Life Palms 45:1 Psalm 45:1 My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 7. God Wants To Be Your Provider (Lord, Father, Husband, King) Is 40:28-31, 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, 31 But those who wait on the Lord, Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. MOUNT UP: I Need To Do More Than I Can, Live Supernatural! Mind, Strength, Power JESUS NEEDS TO SHOW 8. Live Stressless Doesn t Mean Stop, It Means Peace in the Storm Doesn t mean no activity, It Means Peace, Not Worrying, During the Storm. Jesus in the Storm Luke 8:22-25 22 Now it happened, on a certain day, that He got into a boat with His disciples. And He said to them, Let us cross over to the other side of the lake. And they launched out. 23 But as they sailed He fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in [j]jeopardy. 24 And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, Master, Master, we are perishing! Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm. 25 But He said to them, Where is your faith? And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him! Confession of Faith (Dependance) In Christ! 9. Dependance, Must I Really Sell All and Follow Jesus? (Beware of False Love, False Security Wrong Direction) - When You have Riches You has a quandary, You don t need to Love anyone because you can buy your Friends, Security, Future, & Direction Etc. Matthew 19:16-22 (Rich Young Ruler), LUKE 18: 18-29 Page 4,
Mark 10: 17-31 Jesus Counsels the Rich Young Ruler 17 Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, Good (NICE) Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? 18 So Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and your mother. a. WE CAN LOVE OTHERS BUT WE CANNOT LOVE JESUS W/O AGAPE b. PERFECT OBEDIENCE BRINGS ETERNAL LIFE if we truly could keep them 20 And he answered and said to Him, Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth. 21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me. 22 But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! 24 And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, Children, how hard it is [b]for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. 26 And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? 27 But Jesus looked at them and said, With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible. 28 Then Peter began to say to Him, See, we have left all and followed You. 29 So Jesus answered and said, Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother [c]or wife or children or [d]lands, for My sake and the gospel s, 30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first. - Money Isn t the Problem, It s the Power We Desire By It. - Really We Want To Not Be Dependent. - Yet In The Kingdom it s All About Entering Into Full Dependance On Our Father and His Eternal Kingdom. - Do You Have Money or Does It Have You? Do You Love Your Money? Page 5,
10. Who is the Rich Young Ruler? Jesus Was The Rich Young Ruler! Choose to Follow Him Who Gave It All For You! He gave it all Up For You. 2 Corinthians 8:8-9 8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. Jesus Has/Is The Overflow of Abundance What did I LEARN most? How will I LIVE out what I Learned? How can I GIVE it, or help someone else with what I have learned? I Choose to be a Life-Giver, This Week In This Way? Page 6,