Loving the Church
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Our Scripture for today comes from John 13:35, and today's worship is Days of Elijah by Charles Jenkins.
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | Jesus says that we will be known by the way we love each other. |
| 0:16.0 | Would people know that you're a Christian by the way that 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. |
| 0:28.6 | How can you mimic that same love today as you seek to love His church? |
| 0:33.6 | Today, we'll look at the perspective and affections of Jesus for His people. |
| 0:38.3 | May our hearts and minds be transformed as a result. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | Our verse today comes from John 1335. |
| 1:00.0 | Jesus says, |
| 1:02.0 | By this, all people will know that you are my disciples, |
| 1:05.0 | if you have love for one another. |
| 1:08.0 | The words of Jesus in Matthew 6.9 radically changed the way that God's people are to relate to Him. |
| 1:16.6 | Scripture says, pray then like this, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. |
| 1:23.6 | Through Jesus, we now come before God as His child. And because God is our Father, fellow believers are now our spiritual family. |
| 1:32.3 | Other disciples of Jesus are our brothers and sisters. |
| 1:37.3 | And Church is now a spiritual family reunion, designed to be centered around the love and goodness of our Father. |
| 1:46.4 | 1st Psalm 3 1 says, |
| 1:48.5 | See what kind of love the Father has given to us, |
| 1:51.4 | that we should be called children of God, and so we are. |
| 1:56.3 | We've been brought into fellowship with one another because God loves us. |
| 2:01.3 | We're children of God because he longs to have the relationship of a father and his children with us. |
| 2:08.1 | In fact, God created the family unit to be an earthly reflection of God's heavenly family. |
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