We have plans to build an Online Fellowship Hall for you and all of the subscribers of Free Bible Email. In this message you will discover how vital it is to love one another. Learn how to live a life of love and you will live a life you love. You will love your life by being firmly rooted and grounded in love.
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Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV) 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
God's plan for the body of Christ is that we would meet together.
To spur one another to do love and good deeds we need to spend time with each other.
God made man after his own image and likeness. Since God is love then we are designed for love.
Love requires a relationship.We were designed to Love others.
Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV) 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
God wants to strengthen your inner being with the power of love
To be rooted and established in love requires that you love others.
To understand the love of Christ you have to love other people
By developing your love walk you are developing your knowledge of God
To be filled with the fullness of Godrequires knowledge of the love of God, which comes through loving others.
Read the verse again
We love God because He loved us first. To keep the first commandment we have to become experts in love.
Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV) 37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
The second commandment is to love one another. To do that we have to build relationships with each other.
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We are going to build an online fellowship hall.
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Acts 9:1-5 (NKJV) 1 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?" 5 And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads."
Saul (Later to be known as Paul and wrote most of the new testament) was persecuting the Church.
Notice what Jesus said "Why are you persecuting me".How you treat Christians is how you treat Jesus.
You have Jesus on the inside of you. That is not something to take lightly.Whathappens to you happens to Jesus.
Matthew 25:31-46 (NIV) 31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' 37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' 40 "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' 41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' 44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' 45 "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' 46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
When you love and server other Christians you are loving and serving God.
An online fellowship Hall will give us an opportunity to serve each other.
Whatever your do/don't for another Christian is what you have done/not done for Jesus.
We have to change our way of thinking - Christians are not strangers, they are your brothers and sisters in Christs.
We have to develop a deep personal Godly love for one another
We need a place where we can develop pure relationships rather then worldly relationships.
Love is not an emotion. Godly love is an action.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV) 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails...
Patience is an action, kindness is an action, not envying is an action...
An online Fellowship Hall will help us to develop Patience, love, kindness...
We can build relationships with each other even though we are spread all over the world.
Matthew 18:20 (NASB) 20 "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."
Jesus is present when you are fellowship with Christians
When you spend time with other Christians you give God a chance to move in your life
Christians relationships help one another to grow in Christ
Seek out strong Christians. Seek out Christians that can help you get to the next level
Revelation 21:3 (NASB) 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,
Notice that God was among "them". God ishanging out with groups of Christians.
You will find that God will give other Christians the words, insight, information for what you need. You just need to spend time with other Christians in order to give God room to move and be among you.
Acts 4:13 (NASB) 13 Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.
As you spend time with Christians and the Lord other people will recognize that you have been with Jesus.
1 Corinthians 1:9 (NASB) 9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
We have been called into fellowship with Jesus and the body of Christ.
We have been called to fellowship with one another.
1 John 4:19-21 (NIV) 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
If we love God we MUST love one another
This is the true test of our love for God, our relationships with other Christians.
We need to make Christian relationships one of our highest priorities in life
This was not a suggestion - It is a commandment to love our brothers and sisters
Hebrews 3:13 (NASB) 13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
encouraging one another needs to be a daily thing
when you encourage others you help them and you to stay soft and pure before God
A lack of encouragement leads to hardness by the deceitfulness of sin
Sin deceives
Sin will kill you
Sin can be a slow death
During the process of death by sin, hardness sets in
Acts 2:42 (NASB) 42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Notice that the early Church devoted itself to being taught, to fellowship, to breaking of bread, and to prayer
We can't break bread online, but we can fellowship, pray, and devote ourselves to the teachings of Christ.
Romans 12:4-16 (NIV) 4 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. 7 If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; 8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully. 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Many members - hands do not have the same function as the feet, as the eyes, as the ears, as the heart, etc
Each of us is a part of the body. The body is not whole if one of us is missing.
each member belongs to all of the others - I am not my own. I have been bought with a price and I belong to Christ.
In others words I belong to the body of Christ - Christians.
Each of us have been given different gifts. My gifts are not for me. My gifts are for others.
When each of us is playing our part then none of us will lack any good thing
If we are not giving our supply then not only do our needs go unmet but the needs of others will go unmet as well.
It is by serving others that I make myself available to receive what God has planned for me
Romans 15:1-4 (NIV) 1 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2 Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." 4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 12:15-16 (NIV) 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Hebrews 13:16 (NIV) 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Revelation 7:9 (NIV) 9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV) 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
