Sermons Notes

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength….Love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:30, 31

1. Let Jesus determine your worth.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want…he restores my soul… I will fear no evil for you are with me…you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies…and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23

No matter what anyone else thinks or says of us, we are loved by the one who counts most.

What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. Psalm 8:4, 5

No person is an accident. Every person can be a child of God.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:13, 14

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12

2. Let Jesus direct your will.

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10

My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will…My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done. Matthew 26: 39, 42

Benjamin Franklin: He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Loving yourself is not about you but about finding God alive in you.

John Piper: Make your self-seeking the measure of your self-giving.

3. Let Jesus design your way.

I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. John 5:30

Just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to live in obedience to him. Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him, so you will grow in faith, strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Colossians 2:6, 7 New Living Translation

How would I like to be treated here?

Love God with all you are. Love your neighbor with all you are.

John Piper: The root of our sinfulness is the desire for our own happiness apart from God and apart from the happiness of others in God.

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Romans 12:3

How are you showing God’s love to your unlikely neighbors?

Alexander Smith: Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The New International Version is used unless otherwise noted.