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Love All Series
Contributed by Damien Saylor on Jul 6, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: In the constant battle to keep up our Spiritual Health, one of the greatest uplifts comes from loving all. As part of Father’s Day being a loving father brings great responsibility & great reward.
Sermon series - 6 qualities for spiritual health part 3 (Love All)
Sermon Father’s Day 2019
- Today we are celebrating Father’s Day, but I also am going to continue our 6 qualities
for spiritual health too.
- You’ll Get Why in a minute.
- The call to be a dad, is a big undertaking, & I’ll admit some guys just can’t handle it.
- But Listen to this,
> If both father and mother go to church, 72% of the children will also go to church when they grow up.
If only the father goes to church, the percentage drops to 55%.
However, if only the mother goes to church, only 15% of those children will go to church when they are grown.
- I know the numbers are a little skewed, because there are a lot more women who
attend church than men.
- Up until 2012 38% of women attended church regularly & 25% of men attended
regularly.
Q- Why is that a big deal?
- Listen closely!
- In 2012 the pew research conducted the same survey & found only 28% of women
& 22% of men attend church regularly.
- 10% of women stopped going to church & 3% of men stopped!
- Our society is changing.
- Our Spiritual Health is declining!
- I want to fight that!
- So, I started putting our sermons on YouTube, & they’ve been broadcast on the
radio for some time now.
Q- Why is that important?
- It’s because people will never know anything’s wrong unless they see a Physician.
- I hope that up until this time you have seen a way to a healthy spiritual life.
- Think about it with me. It begins with,
1. The love we share with our Father - We Love God totally
2. The talks we have Him- Prayer time
- This third quality encompasses not just dads, but all of us.
- We need to Love All
- That’s a big order, but if you take it from a fatherly, or even motherly view, you
would agree that even though they’ve done wrong, you still love them.
- Here’s the Godly view, & where we’re going to begin with this morning.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
- There are a lot of ideas about love in this day, but not very many are about a love that
can keep somebody from an eternity from Hell.
- Prayer
>True love. www.jokes.christiansunite.com/
If you love something, set it free.
If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours.
If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
If it just sits in your living room,
messes up your stuff,
eats your food,
uses your telephone,
takes your money,
and never behaves as if you actually set it free in the first place,
you either married it or gave birth to it!
- One of the most troubling “true” statements is, often times your family will do you
wrong more often than a stranger.
- Also a Christian business man will do you wrong more often than a lost business
man!
- The numbers of the church are falling off, because of statements like these!
- Our Health is flatlining & not too many people want to hang around a sick
person.
Q- Have you ever heard the statement of, “I’ll avoid them like the plague”?
- Right now, people are avoiding the church, because they say we’re not loving.
Q- Do you know why they say we’re not loving?
- It’s because we tell them God’s views about sinning!
- After that they make up the rest of the reasons.
- Look at what John said though,
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- The whole purpose of God sending Jesus was to save us from Hell!
- That’s a whole lot different form of love than, “oh let’s love everybody” of today.
