Sunday Sermon – What is True Love?
Sunday, 20th October 2024
Ps Joyce Meyer
2 Timothy 3:1-2, “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”
People are selfish beings, we always thought we need somebody to love us but what we need is somebody to love. Jesus’ Great Commandment for us is to love God and love others. Getting into the society and representing Christ, having the character of God, walking in the fruits of the Spirit, this is what we must do as Christians, walking in love. But what is true love? Love without action is not true love, we need to put it into work in our everyday life. We talk about love a lot in church but there is so little we do about loving others in our lives. The only way to walk in love is to do it on purposes. Our flesh is inherently selfish and self-centred.
1 Corinthians 12:31 and Mathew 5:44-47 teach us how to love. When we reach out to help someone else, we are sowing a seed, this is what God wants us to do. We are reaching out not reaching in, we should learn to live everyday life to make someone else happy, starting at home. So often we are willing to do as a ‘ministry’ but we are unwilling to do at home and to the people closest to us. if we want to be happy, forget about ourselves and make somebody happy. God works in us so we can do things beyond the ordinary, such as loving our enemy.
Are we willing to even ask God to teach us how to love the way He loves? God wants us to be good to people that haven’t’ done anything to us, because that way we can win the battle of the spiritual warfare and leave the devil under our feet. Love is an effort, it will always cost us something.
Zion Bread of Life Christian Church 
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