The Dance: What does it mean to really love God?

May 16, 2021
Series: Loved By Jesus
Speaker: Philip Miller
Here in Jesus’ last night before He goes to the cross, we encounter some of the most tender words in all the Scriptures. In the upper room, Jesus pours out His heart to His disciples, and teaches us how to live in the love of God, because living in the love of God is everything.
These verses form John 14:15-31 are notoriously difficult to outline because Jesus keeps circling back time and again to the same central theme as he invites us to live deeply in the love of God. We’ll approach this passage from three angles:
1) Our Love of God: What does it mean to really love God? Our love of Jesus naturally and necessarily flows into an obedience to Christ’s law. This fundamentally boils down to loving God and loving people. So, if you really love Jesus, you’ll grow in love for one another. But that’s not always an easy thing to do. We desperately need direction, wholeness, and courage from Jesus to do that well. We cannot do it on our own; which brings us to the next point.
2) God’s Love of Us: The only way we’ll ever be able to obey Christ’s law of love is through the enabling work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit enables through us what the Son commands of us so that Father delights in us. You want to know how hard love is? It takes all three persons of the Triune God to form us into people of love.
3) The Life of Love: There’s an important progression here: Love God --/ Obey God --/ Love People --/ God’s Presence. Here’s the logic: to love Jesus is to obey Jesus; to obey Jesus is to love one another; as we live in loving obedience, Jesus asks the Father to send the Spirit; God’s indwelling Spirit is His presence in us. Perichoresis is the Divine dance of eternal loving embrace, each person of the Triune Godhead lovingly self-giving unto the others, and welcoming and receiving one another into themselves with unrestrained, overflowing intimacy, delight, and everlasting joy! Do you realize what this means? To be united to Jesus by faith is to be “in Christ” and to have “Christ in us.” And if we share a perichoretic relationship with Jesus, and Jesus has a perichoretic relationship with the Father and the Spirit, then to be in Christ means we also have the Spirit and the Father in him. The Triune God is inviting us to share in the Dance.
Takeaways: will you have this Dance?
John 14:15-31
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Thanks to pastors, and all the staff of moody church, love best wishes to you all for the Sunday service we learn from you alot how to love you, others as our god love us by sending his only son to us to save us and forgive us and giving us eternal life without sins in this hard life thanks our Jesus Christ he died to rescue is and get eternal life in the name of our Jesus Christ Amen he is our saviour who loved his father and loved us and so we loved each other and obey our Jesus Christ,s comment ments to love each other and obey the words of our saviour Jesus Christ by our Jesus and wholey spirit we overcome the difficulties of life and the sickness and proverity he gives us what we need amen

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This teaching is very helpful to understand what is real love and how to love. I learned a lot.

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Glad it was helpful!

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T I think to the pastors and all the staff of moody church they are praying, support us spiritualy,we share the praying in wonderful Sunday service,we feel better in our proverity,sickness and continuing to obeying the words of our Jesus Christ,so become stronger than before and concrete the difficulties of our hard life by continuing praying and read the Bible we feel better soon and continue to be able to be with our Jesus Christ for ever in the name of our Jesus Christ Amen