HOW TO LOVE JESUS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE--IS OUR GOAL IN LIFE
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- HOW TO LOVE JESUS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE--
IS OUR GOAL IN LIFE
Want to get there?
Start using these Three Powerful Habits--
The heart of the message Paul taught in Ephesus, that prompted Acts 18, is captured in the words of Ephesians 4:22-24.
That same message of Christ’s Lordship must fill our lives, leading to the removal of any part of our lives that displeases God. There are three clear choices we must make!
Look again with me at Ephesians 4:22-24:
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Start the Habit of
Grace-prompted Shedding
Ephesians 4:22
First, Paul is asking believers to start a habit of grace-prompted shedding. This is “putting off” old habits like old clothes are so comfortable and fit us so well, that we often forget that we even have them on again-until the Spirit of God convicts us. Paul is reminding us that those who will live a life holy to the Lord must repeatedly put off the old ways.
If we struggle with anger, anger must be shed daily; and if we struggle with pride, pride must daily be shed. This is also the choice we must make for lust, greed, fear and any other byproducts of our flesh. Often believers fail to grow in their spiritual lives because they don’t understand the life-long need to shed or “put off” our old sins on a daily basis.
Start the Habit of
Grace-prompted Thinking
Ephesians 4:23
Second, in v. 23 Paul is asking them to start a habit of grace-prompted thinking. Choices to put off old ways flow from our renewed minds. Just as Romans 12:2 says we are “transformed by the renewing of our minds”. When we think godly, we behave godly; or when we believe right, we behave right.
God’s plan for our minds always starts with us personally reading and studying His Word. Then from that flows our personal request to God’s Spirit, asking Him to renew our minds. As we prayerfully read we have in our minds God’s thoughts. As we submit to God’s desires through His Word-He infuses His mind into ours. Paul said that we can have the mind of Christ by this constant renewal process. A grace-energized mind comes as believers regularly, hopefully daily get God's Word into their hearts and minds.
A simple goal would be to listen to God’s voice all the way through His Word once each year. This is imperative for us, reading the Bible expectantly and asking God to speak to us by His Spirit each day in His Word.
Start the Habit of
Grace-prompted Wearing
Ephesians 4:24
Lastly, in v. 24 Paul is asking them to start a habit of grace-prompted wearing. This is the putting on: “… and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (v. 24).
God makes it clear that it is not enough to merely put off old fleshly habits, they must be replaced with the newness of Christ in wearing His love, wearing His peace, etc. (Galatians 5:22). If I lose my temper with my wife or children, and repent and put it off-that is not enough unless I also put on Christ's love and patience also!
God is at work in us His children, and energized by His grace we must work at living out this new life (Phil. 2:12-13). Our daily task is getting dressed in our divine clothes-spiritually speaking clothes do make the man, and the woman.
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• HOW TO LOVE JESUS MORE...
Thank you for your precious message and valuable teaching John B
I have to feel Jesus love before I can love him. If I don't feel His love, how can I love him.
@@PsalmsFiftyOne-10-12 next.
We love HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US!!! YES. some bible versions leave "HIM" out, which always astounds me.
Setting clear boundaries as to what is in scope and what is out of scope is how you get to a clear scope definition.
Thank You Sir
🐕🦺🐾🐕🦺🐾🐕🦺🐾🐕🦺🐾🐕🦺🐾🐕🦺🐾🐕🦺🐾Please 🙏🏻pray for salvation for Chris, Pete and Nick.
Hello! Praise JAH! Psalm 68;4 KJV and his name alone is the most high Psalm 83;18 KJV
❤
Spread the gospel to everyone especially your family and friends
Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in us in doing so. 🙏
@@destinfarr😂 so what’s the gospel? It means good news so please enlighten me.. if you say 1corinth 15.4.. then you do not understand what it means.. because it’s not literal.. it’s spiritual
Jesus words: 'The Kingdom of God is in you'... Luc.17:20-21
Hello! God Almighty Exodus 6;3 KJV
I've listened to many of his sermons on this channel and I've found many things in all of them which do not line up with scripture.
There was one posted just a few days ago where he was telling people what states are best to be in for riding out "the soon to arrive" armagedon so as to save your life, or at least for a little longer - some states had more water, food or other material world resources than do other states - he provided a list.
There are going to people riding out the Armageddon but not believers. There are states who have more resources than others.
@@tracychaversTLC Matthew 10-39
If you believe your word about "The guy", then, as a good Christian - pray for him.
Oh my goodness! Pastor Barnett is very Biblically sound. I certainly hope that you are ready to be judged with the measure with which you are judging him.
@@shalomsister He preaches to the world about his opinions on what will happen very soon as if the end-times are imminent. Jesus Said to not follow those who do that. If he can give his opinion with a global microphone to the world, I am not allowed to give mine on a tiny sliver of the comment section? I asked him to stop it, I did not judge him, so why do you try and judge me? Judgement is the word you used (twice) - Judgement and discernment are two very different things.
You can’t overcome your stronghold sins on your own.
You need God and godly people to be your best.
Replace sin with good works.
Help the single parent and elderly with their chores; then fellowship with them.
Help the addicts get over their addictions.
Confess temptations and sin to each other and come up with ways to get away from them.
No such thing as a private religion.
If you don’t love God’s children then you’re not loving God.
Dear Pastor,
What is the meaning of the word "NICOLAITANS" in Rev. 2:6, and why must we hate their works, as the Lord says - He hates their works also??? What are their "works"???
Who were the Nicolaitans? Where did they come from? What did they believe?
These are just a few of the many questions that have been repeatedly asked for centuries, and the answers are not quickly or easily perceived, in part, because this group is mentioned by name only twice in the Bible (Rev. 2:6, 15).
The prevailing theory is that it was founded by a man named Nicolaus, the same Nicolaus listed in Acts 6:5 as one of the seven Spirit-filled men chosen to oversee a special ministry in the Jerusalem church.
It was a common practice among early heretics to take the name of an apostle, or one of their associates, in an effort to try and gain respectability for themselves and their doctrines and practices. This is probably the case with the Nicolaitans, as a great many early church writers suggest.
Eusebius, for example, says that “these persons made their boast of Nicolaus.” Ignatius of Antioch (martyred in Rome just twenty years after the time of Revelation) twice makes mention of the Nicolaitans as impostors, saying they are Christians falsely so-called.
Apparently, they were very similar to the Balaamites of the OT, in that they committed acts of immorality (fornication) and they ate meat that had been offered to idols.
In Rev. 2:14-15 the Lord makes this connection plain:
“You have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit acts of immorality. You also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.”
It is also likely that Jezebel, whom Jesus condemns in the epistle to Thyatira, taught the same, for Rev. 2:20 says,
“she teaches and leads my bond-servants astray, so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.”
These are the same offenses earlier condemned as practices of the Nicolaitans.
It is believed that this sect and its teachings died out in the 2nd century, but this is not true.
These practices are alive and well today in the teaching of those who believe that they are saved in their sins, who teach “Once Saved Always Saved”.
The Nicolaitans were a group of professed Christians who believed in a community of wives.
When “Thou shall not commit adultery” was quoted, their favorite reply was “We are not under law, but under grace.”
They claimed they were free from the law and that the Ten Commandments are not binding upon Christians.
The Nicolaitans were persons who excused certain forms of impurity, and made the grace of God a cloak for lasciviousness.
This belief is known as Antinomianism, which means that the gospel frees Christians from required obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil or moral, and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace. All this means that they have no need for ‘Sanctification‘.
The Nicolaitans were the Antinomians of the Asiatic Church.
They didn’t care about how they lived morally daily, and their conduct received little thought. They believed that the faith they professed was everything, that it alone was sufficient for eternal life, and that was all that mattered.
@@watchmanofthenight2700 I read that the Nico-Laitans (Greek), were those who 'lorded over the laity'. Thank you!!!
@@johnbatis9371 Some interpreters hazard a guess based on the construction of the name. The word for "ruler" and the word for "people" comprise the name "Nicolaitans." The Nicolaitans might have advanced the teaching that the clergy should rule the people in the churches, but I have found no evidence to support that theory.
@@watchmanofthenight2700 So what has "once saved always saved " got to do with the Nicolations. ? God has a chosen people: always has and always will. His people aren't religious imitators but truly born again spirit filled Christians whom no one shall pluck out of His hand.
@@watchmanofthenight2700 Thank you. I was born in '44. Attended Catholic schools & churches religiously until '61. At 9 years. of age, I asked a priest - "If God KNEW Adam & Eve would eat of the fruit etc., and if so, why did He let them." The priest responded - "Don't ask, you'll never know anyway." Sorry to say that too many Catholics/Christians fail and are not taught to carry the Word of God, the Bible to church. My eternal THANKS to God in Christ for the answer to the aforementioned question.
Why is this crap coming up on my home page. I don’t get it.
Jesus is calling you:)
Did u just say Muslim evangelicnist.?
He’s talking about Christians who are in the Middle East to witness to Muslims
The title of this video, should be - How to Love God more than anything else. Jesus is only the vocalisation of his father. Jesus is not the father, only the son. Jesus is the representation of his father because Jesus was created by God the Almighty.
Its just lucifers deception but by all means go your way
I do catch you saying things not of God
The Jewish evangist? Did you mispeak or mislead with yours Scofield zionists doctrine
Not big on commercials during Bible study. Sorry.
Unfortunately that's Utube 😢
Ad blockers bro
I haven't seen an ad on pc or Android for over a decade...like, how do people live with themselves?
Just get CZcams Premium. It's not the ministries fault.
Oh stop
Dallas? Are you kidding me. These schools are "Garbage"
In these last 6 days let's keep the Plasma Spiritual Bodies inside the whirlwind of light with the highest spinning speed, breathing with the lower abdomen instead of the thorax to achieve the greatest propulsion on takeoff.😄😁😆
So when we are still here 7 days from now will you repent and go away? I think you won’t. You are two wedded to your beliefs
Hello! Jesus is the son of the highest Luke 1;32 KJV he is not God
God is the Father
God is the Son
God is the Holy Spirit
@carolynflippo6808 Hello! Headship order 1Corinthians 11:3 KJV