TWO MINUTE MESSAGE - FREE TO LOVE

WATCH THE TWO MINUTE MESSAGE HERE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuLi7m_OA4

 

Everyday we hear someone saying, “I should be free to love who I want to love, anyway I want to love, and anytime I want to love them .”

I HAVE A THREE MINUTE MESSSAGE  I’d like you to think about.   Hi, I’m Pastor Rick Jones, Faith Community Church, St. Louis.

We often hear people saying that as Americans they should be free to love who they choose to love.  The truth is, that is not uniquely American—that’s Human!  We are all free moral agents, gifted by our Creator with freewill. We are free to love who we choose to love.  There’s no arguing that point.

So if God made us free to love who we choose to love, does God care who we love? I mean He created us all.  So why would he care who we love?

It turns out that who we love defines who we are. 

The first and greatest of God’s commandments is, “ ^“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: ⁵ And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

Godly people love God.  Worldly people love the world.  Sensual people love pleasure.  Materialists love things.  Prideful people love themselves.  

LOVE DEFINES US.

LOVE DETERMINES US… HOW JOYFUL WE ARE.

 

If we love people more than God we will be, sooner or later, disappointed.  If we love things more than God we will be sooner or later dissatisfied.  If we love pleasure more than God we will be tormented by our insatiable cravings.  Some loves are fatal attractions!

Simply because we have a attraction to a particular person or experience or possession does not mean that we should love that person, or experience, or possession. 

 Love and Lust are not the same.  Love is spiritual, self-less, and eternal.  Lust is physical, selfish, and temporal. 

Finally, LOVE DECIDES OUR DESTINY.

Scriptures teach us that while we are free to love who or what we want to love, we are not free to determine the consequence of our choice.   I may chose to love myself more than I love God, but when I stand before the Lord, He will say “depart from me.”  To those who chose to love Him, He will say, “enter into the joys of the Lord.” 

You know, whether or not we make it to heaven is not determined by God’s love—that’s a settled fact—God loves the world.  Our destiny hinges on this question, “Do we love God?”