Loving the Church - July 22
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🗓️ 22 July 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we wrap up our week on loving people, we look today at how we can love the Church as God does. Jesus says we will be known by the way we love each other. Would people know you’re a Christian by the way you love your brothers and sisters? People are messy, it’s true. We all are. And yet Jesus saw our worth and loved us in the midst of our messiness. How can you mimic that same love today as you seek to love his Church? Today we’ll look at the perspective and affections of Jesus for his people. May our hearts and minds be transformed as a result.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 13:35, and today's worship is Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) by Hillsong Worship featuring Taya Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | As we wrap up our week on loving people, we look today at how we can love the church as God does. |
| 0:11.6 | Jesus says that we will be known by the way we love each other. |
| 0:16.2 | Would people know that you're a Christian by the way that you love your brothers and sisters? |
| 0:21.9 | People are messy. |
| 0:28.0 | It's true. We all are. And yet Jesus saw our worth and loved us in the midst of our messiness. |
| 0:35.2 | How can you mimic that same love today as you seek to love his church? Today we'll look at the perspective and affections of Jesus for His people. May our hearts and minds be transformed as a result. Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 1:00.5 | Our verse today comes from John 1335. |
| 1:08.3 | Jesus says, by this, all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another. |
| 1:17.6 | The words of Jesus in Matthew 6'9 radically changed the way that God's people are to relate to Him. Scripture says, pray then like this, our Father in heaven, Hallad be your name. |
| 1:24.6 | Through Jesus, we now come before God as His child. And because God is our father, fellow |
| 1:31.1 | believers are now our spiritual family. Other disciples of Jesus are our brothers and sisters. |
| 1:38.3 | And church is now a spiritual family reunion designed to be centered around the love and goodness of our father. |
| 1:47.3 | 1.1.1 says, see what kind of love the father has given to us, that we should be called |
| 1:53.4 | children of God, and so we are. We've been brought into fellowship with one another because God |
| 2:00.7 | loves us. |
| 2:01.6 | We're children of God because he longs to have the relationship of a father and his children with us. |
| 2:08.6 | In fact, God created the family unit to be an earthly reflection of God's heavenly family. |
| 2:15.6 | And Scripture is clear that it's incredibly important |
| 2:18.8 | that God's children love one another. |
| 2:22.7 | Colossians 3 12 through 15 says, |
| 2:25.5 | put on then as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, |
| 2:29.7 | compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another, |
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