Man's Love In Response To God's: Keeping His Word
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings...
Last month we studied God’s amazing love for each and everyone of us.
We saw how God’ loves us even when we sin.
We studied God’s great love for us in salvation through His “protection, procreation, and production.”
Proclamation
Procreation
Production
We then examined God’s amazing love for us in salvation by way of the promised Holy Spirit’s seal that protects us and guarantees our salvation ().
This amazing love of our God should invoke a response from His creation.
The promised Holy Spirit’s seal and the protection and guarantee
Last week saw “Man’s first response” which should be to “remove sin from our lives i.e. seek purity.”
Today, I want us to focus on “man’s second response” which should be “keeping God’s Word.”
Let us examine our lesson for today.
However, many struggle with understanding how one
God’s Word
God’s Word
God’s Word is...
God’s Word is...
You wouldn’t think this would be a difficult sentence to finish, “God’s Word is the Bible.”
After all you can go down to almost any store that sells books and find several “Bibles” just waiting for you to pick up and buy, many of which have the heading “God’s Word.”
Add to that the Bible is the best selling book every year hands down and the idea of finishing the phrase “God’s Word is...” seems silly almost.
However, God’s Word is more than “The Bible” in which I mean it isn’t just a “best selling book” or a bunch of “words on paper.”
God’s Word is...
The mind of God.
Paul, in defending his apostleship, would declare how the Holy Spirit searched the mind of God to deliver to him what God wanted written down to the Corinthians.
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Paul then declared this written letter to the Corinthians was “the mind of Christ.”
16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
The synergy between the physical and spiritual of man.
There is a war going on between the physical and spiritual sides of man.
Rom 7:22-23
22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
The “God’s breathed” Word is that which marries the two together into harmony.
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Summery
Summery
Knowing this helps us better understand Jesus’ comment in “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
Man’s Love In Response To God’s Love Means we understand what Jesus was saying when He said...
Keep My Commandments
Keep My Commandments
You will keep my commandments
You will keep my commandments
Jesus
Jesus is the Word of God manifested.
Jesus is the Word of God manifested.
Jesus is God in
God in the flesh was the manifested “mind of God.”
A lack of understanding this has led to so much confusion it is scary.
The problem is that a faith that is rooted in the Scripture alone is not sustainable. It will dry up and wither on the vine. While the Bible is an important and authoritative guide for Christian faith and practice, it isn’t the foundation or center of our faith- Jesus is. ~ Brandon Robertson 1
Jesus was the Bible manifested physically.
The Bible is clear that He is the Word of God in the flesh.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus only did and taught the “Word of God.”
This is exactly what Jesus taught over and over.
49 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
Jn 12:
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
This is why faith comes through the Word of God and not some feeling of “communing with the Spirit of Christ.”
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Rom
When Jesus said “keep My commandments” what He was saying was “keep God’s Word.”
48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Keeping God’s Word isn’t...
Keeping God’s Word isn’t...
A suggestion.
Some have it in their mind that the “mind of God” i.e. the “Holy Scripture” is something that can be taken as one pleases. This usually is formed in sentences like...
Participants in the new covenant are expected to obey the single command Jesus issued as part of his new covenant: as I have loved you, so you must love one another. 2
This is clearly refuted by Jesus when He stated in .
38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Just about listening to the parts of the Bible you like.
Just about listening to the parts of the Bible you like.
Some have tried to suggest that the only thing we must follow are the “red letters” in the Bible and that anything else is “corrupted” or “less important.”
However, this forgets one important fact, for example, those red letters were written by men that wrote other books of the Bible also.
John also wrote 1, 2, & 3 John.
Luke also wrote the book of Acts and spoke, in the book of Acts, of Paul’s apostleship.
Also, Jesus Himself, quoted from passages “not in red letters” and deemed them authoritative.
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
Jn 10:
Here Jesus clearly states is Scripture though not in “red letters.”
When Jesus said “Keep My commandments” it meant “keep God’s Word.”
Keeping God’s Word is...
Keeping God’s Word is...
Our response to God’s love for us.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 Jn 5:
Making captive every thought and action according to the knowledge of Scriptures and not just zeal.
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Summery
Summery
When we respond to God’s love for us it will always be manifested in obedience to God’s Word.
Conclusion
Conclusion
God’s love is clearly demonstrated to us throughout Scripture, are we responding to that love as we should?
Let us strive for purity in our lives through “keeping God’s Word.”
48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
4 Teachings of Jesus That His Followers (Almost) Never Take Seriously (http://bit.ly/2USscWf)
Andy Stanley from North Point Community Church (http://bit.ly/2GjNOba)