Motivated by Love: The True Path to Holiness

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. And it's based on the premise of that quote that she mentioned, that God goes where he is most wanted. And the end goal of the series is to expose you to a number of spiritual practices, disciplines that will help all of us position our hearts and open up our lives to the Spirit of God so that he can transform us from the inside and do amazing things among us." [03:19] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "How would you love to be a people of depth and love? What I'm hoping for, and I'm trusting for, that by the end of this message, that we'll get to the heart. To the motivation behind what it means to be hungry. So that we can guard against what I referred to in my message two weeks ago, and Jolene mentioned it as something she struggled with when she was first exposed to the disciplines. The danger of becoming legalistic and religious about just doing stuff." [05:17] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "The conclusion led me to a single word. And if you've been paying attention through the service from the very first song, that word is love. I believe that this word gives us the motivation behind a hunger and a thirst for righteousness. This one word is the heart behind hungry. And we will only be found guilty of being righteous if our motive for the crime is love." [22:08] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "If we want to get the order right, starting with the heart, starting with the motivation, it starts with God. God loves us. We sang it in the first song. God so loved the world that he gave his son. And so his son came and died for us so that you and I could be saved from death, from sin, and from judgment. When we receive, that with the fact that he's done it in our place for us, we receive immediately his forgiveness and his Holy Spirit. And then our response in gratitude for all of that is holiness." [25:26] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I'm convinced, Paul says, that nothing can ever separate us from God's love, which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can't be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces or powers in the world above or in the world below or by anything else in creation. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Our first response should be love. But our response is always only a response. The response to the love of a God who loved the world so much." [29:17] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "Holiness is both internal and external. It involves putting off and putting on. And why that passage that Jolene read from stood out to me is because I found another pair. Because holiness is both vertical and horizontal. Cornelius prayed to God, but he was regularly giving to those poor Jewish people in his community. And so, from the top, all together, just to be clear, holiness is both internal and external. It involves putting off. Putting on. And it is both vertical and horizontal." [09:35] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "You see, one of the clues or the secrets to holiness and righteousness is obedience. Obedience is the thing that distinguishes true Christians from non-Christians. And there is a difference, a huge difference between compliance based on fear and genuine, authentic obedience. I learned that most notably in my marriage. We've been married for 22 and a half years. And especially in the early days of our marriage, a big issue was dishes." [13:56] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I want to know, which commandments are we supposed to obey? Because in the Bible, there are a lot. For the Jews in their Torah, they counted 613 commandments, what they called mitzvah, that they needed to obey. And those were things that pertain to every aspect of life. Family life, daily life, personal hygiene, diet. 613. And Jesus summarizes, all the commandments of the Bible into two categories." [20:07] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "I'm going to suggest, as we've gleaned from scripture and seen some of the clues, that if you aren't hungry for God, or if I'm not hungry for God, then maybe I don't really love God. Is that a harsh thing to say? I don't know. That's what John says in 1 John. If we don't have that love for others, then we are lying, when we say that we love God. But it all comes back to verse 10 of chapter 4. This is love. Not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the payment for my sin." [27:51] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And so over the next few weeks, we'll be looking at some practical things of doing simple obedience, of spending time in God's word, in prayer, singing songs of worship. You may be encouraged to do practical things like joining a small group, tithing by giving to God through the church, living a holy life, making an attack on the sin in your life. Anyone up for that? What about loving others? Praying for them, showing kindness, forgiving them, giving someone a word of encouragement, maybe a handwritten note, investing energy, time, resources into others." [27:11] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)