The Extraordinary King's Love
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
0 likes•45 views
We are starting a new series that will help us to live as sons and daughters of the King. We begin by looking at our extraordinary King and I trust your hearts will be arrested by His love.
Recommended
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to The Extraordinary King's Love
Similar to The Extraordinary King's Love (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
The Extraordinary King's Love
- 3. Rom 8:15-17 NIV The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
- 4. Rom 8:15-17 NIV Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
- 5. 1 John 4:7-19 NIV Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us:
- 6. 1 John 4:7-19 NIV He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 7. 1 John 4:7-19 NIV Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
- 8. 1 John 4:7-19 NIV And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
- 9. 1 John 4:7-19 NIV God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love.
- 10. 1 John 4:7-19 NIV But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us.
Editor's Notes
- The series title is Kingdom Living Up IN Out. In this series we will talk about what Kingdom Living is or put another way what it means to be a disciple. Let me use a parable to illustrate why we think this is worth talking about. Ron and Karen Morlan had 3 children that included a set of twins of which one had serious health issues and actually had to have a kidney transplant, despite this they felt God lead them to adopt a child. It was first Karen that felt convinced but Ron struggled having witnessed some of the difficulties associated with adoption. But eventually they agreed that this was God was saying. They applied for adoption but a year went by with no opportunities until they were informed that a 12 year old girl was available for adoption. They discussed as a family, the kids were very excited to get an older sister and they felt it was a yes from God. They were invited to meet the girl, interview her and then decide if they would take her but felt if God said yes then they can’t go and decide after an interview, they didn’t want the girl to feel rejected so they decided they would take her before even meeting her. They met Lauren who grew up with her gran in bars, her mom was a drug addict and alcoholic as was all her family. Her grandpa took her but he was also an alcoholic and after he suffered an heart attack she lived with a friend for a while. They however moved away so she bounced around between friends’ homes for about a year. When she got to 7th grade she was back with her grandpa but took his car for a joy ride and got pulled over the police. She was taken into the system for foster care but ended up in a youth detention center. This was traumatic for her as it was like a prison with rooms like cells and she felt very scared, and stayed in her room as much as possible. After three days she was told people are coming to pick her up and take her home with them. She took all her belongings that were in a garbage bag and went with the people. While they were very warm and welcoming she said it was the scariest day of her life, to be in a new home and not knowing who the people were very unsettling. She did begin to warm up to them but it was a struggle as there were structure and chores and they went to church and these were things she didn’t know. After a few months her lawyer started talking with her about being adopted with the Morlans but she felt uncertain. Her mom as an addict couldn’t raise her nor her grandfather who had dementia and when she realized that she accepted that the Morlans loved her and wanted her. Since then she has stayed with them and was going to college, the first from her biological family. She is so thankful for the path God took her on and that she ended up with the Morlans. The Morlans also are thankful that they were given a teenager and that she was the greatest gift from God
- The kingdom is like this, you and I are adopted into a family with a loving father. We come from a scary place but God opened His home for us and wants to make us children with full rights. The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture. But adoption is not just about being a child with rights but also how to live in a family. Like Lauren found it challenging to learn what it means to be a Morlan. By accepting forgiveness offered in Christ’s death we are adopted into God’s family and through discipleship we learn how to live in God’s household. We learn who He is, what love is and how to respond in love.
- We have been adopted in the household of a Father that is also a king, like Moses we are not just son’s and daughters but princes and princesses in a kingdo that is reclaiming it’s territory. We have to learn how to live in our Father’s household and how to represent His kingdom. In order to know how to do this we look at Him and it is then that we make an astonishing discovery. Our Father’s kingdom is built on love because that is who He is. God is love. He defines love because He is love within the Trinity we see love, Agape love. Throughout the ages we have wrestled with the concept of the Trinity. In the 5th century, St. Augustine struggled to understand the Blessed Trinity: How one God can be revealed to us as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While this reality is a mystery, it is the way God has revealed Himself to us. There is only one God who created the heavens, the earth and all that is in them. God created humanity in God’s own image and likeness, as man and woman capable of uniting in love to bring new life into the world and an image of the creative love of the Holy Trinity. St. Augustine’s model of the Blessed Trinity identifies love as being the uniting force in God. Augustine wrote: “And the Holy Spirit, according to the Holy Scriptures, is neither of the Father alone, nor of the Son alone, but of both; and so intimates to us a mutual love, wherewith the Father and the Son reciprocally love one another”. The love of the Father for the Son and the Son for the Father, from all eternity, is so intense that it is manifest in the personification of the Holy Spirit. All three persons are united as in mutual love. (https://voiceofthesouthwest.org/understanding-the-trinity-love-is-the-uniting-force-in-god/) But let’s be careful. God is love but love is not God. People often worship love instead of God, we love, love. If we make love God we make God a force an impersonal energy and we also make the love we know divine instead of allowing God to show us the love we don’t know. Love is real it is not some abstract force of good feelings. Love requires three things a subject, an object and a relationship between them. It is something felt and expressed by one who loves to the one that is loved. God loves me and I love God. This is why the trinity is so important, if God is not a trinity then God cannot be love. If God was only one person he could be a lover but he could not be love. The Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father, and the Spirit is the love proceeding from both, from all eternity. If that were not so, then God would need us, would be incomplete without us, without someone to love. Then his creating us would not be wholly unselfish, but selfish, from his own need. (http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/love.htm) God is not just kind, He is love. Real love that sometimes disciplines, withholds and corrects. Love that makes us real by giving us strength and glory.
- Because our King is a Loving Father we who live in His Kingdom do so out of love.
- He first loved you. He lost you but wants you back, so much so that he died on a cross to buy you back so he could adopt you. 11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his propertybetween them. 13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate. 31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
- He first loved you. He lost you but wants you back, so much so that he died on a cross to buy you back so he could adopt you. 11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his propertybetween them. 13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate. 31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”