Pastor Elio Marrocco's "Restoring Your Passion For Life" sermon at New Life Christian Church on March 11, 2012. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca

1. RESTORING
YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
Text: Mark 12:30-31

2. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
Mark 12:30-31
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your
mind and with all your strength and love
your neighbor as yourself. There is no
greater commandment than these.”

3. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
• Love God
• Love other people

4. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
(MSG)
“Love the Lord your God will all your
passion, all your prayer, all your
intelligence, all your energy.”

5. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
• Seek God passionately! Deut. 6:6
• Love God passionately! Deut. 10:12
• Serve God passionately! Deut. 30:2
• Obey God passionately! Deut. 30:2
• Trust God passionately! Prov. 3:5

6. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
Colossians 3:23
“Whatever you do, do it with all your heart
as unto the Lord and not as unto men.”

7. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
Romans 12:11
“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your
spiritual fervor.”

8. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
Isaiah 49:4 (NIV)
“I have labored to no purpose. I have spent
my strength in vain and for nothing.”

9. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
Hobbs says:
“Passion is waking up in the morning,
wherever you are, however old or
young and bounding out of bed
because you know there’s something
out there that you love to do, that you
believe in, that you’re good at,
something that’s bigger than you are
and you can hardly wait to get at it

10. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
Hobbs says:
…It’s something you’d rather be doing
more than anything else in the whole
world. You wouldn’t give it up for
money; it means more to you than
money. And hopefully it’s something
that makes the world a better place
and it lasts for eternity.”

11. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
1 Corinthians 7:17
“Each one of you should live his life with
the gifts that the Lord has given him.”

12. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
1 Timothy 4:7
“Take the time and the trouble to keep
yourself spiritually fit.”

13. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
• The purpose of worship – thinking,
loving, serving God.
• The purpose of fellowship – loving other
people and making a difference in their
lives.
• The purpose of Bible study – letting the
message of the Bible make a difference
in our lives.

14. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
• The purpose of ministry – ministering to
other people.
• The purpose of outreach – telling other
people the good news of who God is.

15. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
4. AN UNCONFESSED SIN
Psalm 38: 4-6
“My guilt has overwhelmed me like a
burden too heavy to bear. I am bowed
down and brought low.”

16. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
4. AN UNCONFESSED SIN
1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, God can be trusted
to forgive you our sins and to cleanse
you from all unrighteouness.”

17. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
4. AN UNCONFESSED SIN
5. AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT

18. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
PASSION KILLING EMOTIONS
• Resentment,
• Jealousy, and
• Prolonged anger.

19. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
4. AN UNCONFESSED SIN
5. AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT
Job 5:2
“Resentment destroys the fool and jealousy
kills the simple.”

20. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
4. AN UNCONFESSED SIN
5. AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT
Job 18:4
“You are only hurting yourself with your
anger.”

21. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
4. AN UNCONFESSED SIN
5. AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT
6. AN UNSUPPORTED LIFESTYLE
Ecclesiastics 4:9-10
“Two are better than one, because if one falls
down his friend can help him up. But pity the
man who falls down and has no one to help

22. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE
2. AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT
3. AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE
4. AN UNCONFESSED SIN
5. AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT
6. AN UNSUPPORTED LIFESTYLE
7. AN UNDERNOURISHED SPIRIT

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7. AN UNDERNOURISHED SPIRIT
Colossians 2:6-7
“Just as you trusted Christ to save you,
trust Him, too, for each day’s
problems; live in vital union with Him.
Let your roots grow down into Him and
draw up nourishment from Him. See to
it that you go on growing in the Lord
and become strong and vigorous.”

24. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
7. AN UNDERNOURISHED SPIRIT
Exodus 34
“You must worship only the Lord, for He is
a God who is jealous (passionate)
about His relationship with you.”

25. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
7. AN UNDERNOURISHED SPIRIT
Revelation 3:15-16 (CE)
15
‘I know everything you have done, and
you are not cold or hot. I wish you were
either one or the other. 16
But since you
are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot,
I will spit you out of my mouth.‘’

26. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
Lukewarmness!
C.S. Lewis
“The only thing Christianity cannot be is
moderately important.”

27. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
Revelation 2:4-5
5'
Think about where you have fallen from,
and then turn back and do as you did at
first...

28. RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE
1. Think about where you have fallen
from.
2. “Turn back, Repent”
3. “…do as you did at first...”