Light Shines - Part 12

You can't separate your love from God with your love for people. Now, the reality is most of us will say that we love god but it's it's the people that we struggle with. And here's the beautiful thing is that when you're in right relationship with god, when you're abiding in him, god does something supernaturally in you that you can't do for yourself that you're able to love people. You're able to see people the way that god sees them and you're able to love and care for them and so it's important that we pass this test of love. Verse one, it says, and everyone who loves the father loves his children too. [00:15:43] (41 seconds)  #AbideLovePeople

You can't do enough good good deeds for yourself to be acceptable before God. The bible says that no one is righteous. There's only one that is righteous, that is Jesus. And he lived a perfect life, a life that we could not live, and he pay and he died a death that we deserve to die so that way we can live a life that we don't deserve to live. He loves us so much, and he he gave us, his son, Jesus, to die on the cross so that way we can have life and so John says, whoever has the son has life. [00:07:16] (32 seconds)  #GraceNotWorks

If you have Jesus in your life, if he is your lord and savior, then you have life. If you don't, then you don't have eternal life with him. And I pray that you would make the greatest decision you could ever make in your life to recognize who Jesus is. And from this day forward, say, God, I want to follow you. That you would ask Jesus to be your Lord and savior. We see throughout the bible that salvation is through Jesus alone. And that he is truly more than enough. You can't work yourself into heaven. [00:06:41] (34 seconds)  #SalvationThroughJesus

And this is a a battle that we find throughout scripture where where oftentimes people would would rely on themselves or they would rely on other things, and God wants you to rely on him, to trust in him. Don't let anything take the place that only god deserves in your life. Here's another way of looking at this. If you'll do for something else what you won't do for God, it may have become an idol in your life. If if there are things in your life that you are willingly making a sacrifice for but you won't do it for God, then likely it's become an idol in your life. [00:27:09] (41 seconds)  #GuardAgainstIdols