His Love Ministries
Episodes
Thursday Oct 23, 2014
EPHESIANS 5:2-6 IMITATE GOD BY WALKING IN LOVE
Thursday Oct 23, 2014
Thursday Oct 23, 2014
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as
Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice
to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 3 But fornication and all uncleanness or
covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4
neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not
fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know, that no fornicator,
unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in
the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for
because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
1. Walk in Love
Because You are Beloved (highly valued by) of God v1
Sonship is the motive and the means of
imitating God
Look at verse 1 now, it's a command, be imitators of God,
it's not a suggestion, it's a command.
This verse
explains how we are to imitate God, namely, by loving. The measure and model of
our love should be Christ's love for us.
Godlikeness is
godliness; godliness is godlikeness.
First of all the depth of your love is indicated by how much you
forgive. Now think about it. Do you hold a grudge against
somebody in your house? It isn't their problem that's your problem. Your
inability to forgive belies your love, and I say to you if this is
characteristic of your life you're not a Christian, because if you don't have
love you're not God's child. Think about it.
Secondly the depth of your love is
indicated by how much you know you've been forgiven.
2. Walk in Love
Because You were Bought at a great price v2
3. Walk in Love
Because You are a saint (holy, set-apart by God) v3
Christian Love Hates Immorality
Where God establishes true love, the world comes along and
establishes the phony, the counterfeit.
· Walking in Love
Means avoiding immorality …or sexual
immorality (lust of the flesh (sexual) and the lust of the eyes (covetousness))
"'Immorality'
(RSV) and sexual perversion of almost every kind might be included under the
[Greek] word porneia, translated fornication in NKJV; it involves all that
works against the life-long union of one man and one woman within the sanctity
of the marriage bond.
Love is both positive and negative:
“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good”
(Romans 12:9). Christian love is demonstrated by acts of sacrifice, to God and
to men. Christian love never expresses itself in immorality.
· Walking in Love
Means avoiding impurity (sins of the tongue) or sensual talk v4
Paul
proceeded from immorality to vulgarity
Clean up your life, clean up your talk.
· Walking in Love
Means giving Thanks v4
God's love is unselfish
and faithful and the world's love is faithless and selfish.
4. Walk in Love
Because You are a King and are part of the Kingdom v5
From the time you were converted there's going to be a change. Because
salvation is based on repentance. If you ever learned anything when you were
saved you learned that. Titus 2:11 listen to this, "For the grace of God
that brings salvation has appeared to all men." Now when you got salvation
it says this, "Teaching us," did you know your salvation teaches you
something? It teaches you "denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present age."
v6 there are some
people who want to deceive, there are people who want to deceive by selling a
counterfeit kind of love, and the world's counterfeit love involves fornication
and adultery and covetousness and uncleanness and all of that stuff. But we are
not to buy the counterfeit, if we're true Christians our lives will be not
characterized by the counterfeit but real love.
This is the punishment now. They're not going to enter the Kingdom." don't you
let anybody tell you, you can do this and be a Christian, don't you let anybody
tell you, you can live like this and God will forgive you, don't you let
anybody tell you you're going to be all right, you're going to get in the
Kingdom, it'll be okay you made a decision, you did your religious thing, it's
all right to live like this. Don't let anybody deceive you with those empty
words, they're empty, they're meaningless, they're useless. "For because
of these very things," what things? Fornication, uncleanness,
covetousness, filthiness, foolish talk and coarse jesting, "the wrath of
God comes on the sons of disobedience." Do you see? These are the very
things for which God damns people to hell. Don't let anybody deceive you. These are not characteristics of children
of God, they are characteristics of children of disobedience. Do you see the
contrast? Verse 6 ends with the children of disobedience, verse 1 began with
the dear children of God. There's a difference.
Lessons:
We avoid immorality because it is not love, and
because it satisfies our physical desires at the expense of others.Let us leave this text with a clearer grasp of what
Christian love is all about. It is not about self-gratification, but about
self-sacrifice and the glory of God
Wednesday Oct 08, 2014
HIS LOVE MINISTRIES ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2014 ANNUAL BANQUET
Wednesday Oct 08, 2014
Wednesday Oct 08, 2014
1.
Billy
Miller - Pastor of Isle of Hope Baptist Church Speaking about His Love
Ministries over at John Wesley Assisted Living Facility and the part the
ministry played in his life
2.
Shelly
McKenzie - Reading a letter from a Resident at Habersham House Assisted Living
3.
Martha
Jenkins - Speaking about her role as a Bible Teacher to the girls at the Youth
Detention Center
4.
Erik
Lacanilao - Speaking about his role as a fill in Bible teacher in for the
Prison, the ministry he does at Coastal Men’s Transitional Center with the Substance
abuse Program, and as a Bible Teacher to the boys at the Youth Detention Center
5.
Ronnie
Nichols - Speaking about his role as Bible teacher in for Coastal Harbor
Treatment Center Adult and Youth Facilities
6.
Marty
McKenzie - Speaking about his role as head of His Love Ministries
7.
James
Rody and the Hope Band - Playing 2 Songs – Worship His Holy Name and I’ll Fly
Away