Jesus Is: Faith, Baptism, and Victory in Christ

And we do that a lot of times too. We we we go, well, Jesus is just love. He just Yes. Jesus is love. He loves everyone but you gotta understand, you know, Romans five eight says, God commended his own love towards us that while we were yet what? Sinners. Sinners. The greatest act of love was that while we were totally the opposite direction of God, God intervened anyway and built a bridge where we could be saved and not face eternal death. That's the kind of love he has for us. [00:57:51] (32 seconds)  #LoveThatSaves

it should not be a burden. It should be a privilege to follow our Lord. Amen? Come on. Amen. It should be a privilege every day to stand up and to follow our Lord because that's who he is. That's what he does. I I love this. Romans Romans eight thirty one to 39 talks about this. He uses the phrase, been born of God who conquers the world. That conquers is this idea of continuing to conquer, not just once but it continues. That same power that raised Jesus will continues to work in our lives. That's what it's about. [01:05:53] (37 seconds)  #ConquerInChrist

The kind of love which says, will give my life for you. I won't even think a second time about it. I will do that because that's what it takes. So God intervenes, sends himself in the person of Jesus who Jesus do that for us. It matters how we see Jesus. It matters guys how we see Jesus, how we understand who Jesus is. If you remember last week the the final point of the message was be willing to surrender. [00:58:23] (33 seconds)  #SeeJesusSurrender

How about this? You are who you love. I thought I like that even better. Don't you? Come on. If because our relationship with Christ is a who not a what. It is that we have an enduring living daily relationship with who? With him. We've talked about this when Jackson preached a while a few weeks ago and and when we talked about this all the way through this abiding in Christ, we are who we love. Do you love God? Yes or no? Yes. [00:59:45] (28 seconds)  #AbideInChristDaily

Guys, is a connection between love and obedience. Jesus said, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. It's what he tells us. You love me, they're connected together, but we have to surrender to that. I heard someone this week make this phrase in a sermon. They say you are what you love. Is that true? Yeah, I think it can be. I think you can literally become what you love. You allow that to become your idol. [00:59:16] (28 seconds)  #YouBecomeWhatYouLove

Then we cannot not love others. If we love God, we cannot refuse to obey him. We love him. We represent him. He's filled us with his spirit. This is what he has done. You know, make no mistake, love for God is revealed to our complete surrender to him. Now right guys, I could stop right now and give an invitation because we know who Jesus is. Right? He's our savior. He's our Lord. He's the one and only. [01:00:13] (35 seconds)  #LoveRequiresSurrender

I go, well, this is the way John wrote it. You know why? Because John knew how divided the church was and he and he needed the church. He needed God's people to stop for a moment. Come on, look across the aisles. It blessed my heart to watch you going across last week, praying for others because we cannot do this alone. We can't. We were meant to do this in community, to hold each other's arms up, to love each other in that way. It'd be foolish for us to try to do it alone. [01:02:22] (38 seconds)  #WeWereMadeForCommunity

His health declined rapidly due to severe heart issues leaving him unable to continue doing his work. Facing death at the age of 30, Carter vowed to fully trust God's promises leading to a complete recovery and a life consecrated service, just like the song we just sang. Facing a hopeless prognosis, Carter returned to prayer and a deep and active commitment to God's promises, choosing to walk by faith not by feeling. He experienced dramatic healing which inspired the lyrics for this song. [01:04:28] (32 seconds)  #WalkByFaithNotFeeling