Keep Yourself in the Love of God (3 of 6)
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In Jude 20 it says keep yourself in the love of God. Now why do I have to guard or protect or watch over this area of encountering, experiencing, and walking in the love of God? There's an enemy that wants to keep me from it. The devil brings spiritual pressure around us. You've got to guard against isolation and loneliness.
Well we're just in a series now on the Extravagant Love of God, and I want to just do the third in this series. We're sort of breaking it up into three pa rts, so this is the first part, and Jesus was asked reme mbe r in Matthe w 22, what's the great commandment? He said well the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, all your stre ngth. Then the second one is love your neighbour as yourself, and on this is everything of God's re quire ments, the law of love, and so He laid it out. So we're looking at three aspects and three differe nt sections we're going to cove r. The fi rst is loving God passionately, and the first we saw was that God is a passionate lover of people. He expresses His love in a whole variety of ways. You may not have ex perienced it, doesn't mean He hasn't expressed it, and we l ooke d at that and we saw not only that we respond to being loved by loving Him.
The Bible says we love Him, because He first loved us. Our lovi ng God, our passion for God, is an overflow of responding to what He's given us with hunger a nd appreciation and longing for more. So this part of what we're doi ng is the first part, loving the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all