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Pure Motives, Love, & The Good News of Jesus Christ

 




In Philippians 1:15-18, we see some people share The Good News with pure motives and others from selfish ambition, jealousy, and with no sincerity. But, Paul still rejoiced because, The Good News was still being shared.

The reality Paul was faced with is the same reality we're faced with today. Since there are so few set free and willing to walk in love rightly. He rejoiced in the fact that Something is better than nothing!

Ultimately, we know we should have pure motives and love others with no agenda because this is the example Jesus set.

In order for others to truly experience the love of Christ through us,

We must represent Him well by setting our selfish motives and agenda's aside.

In this way, people will see that you genuinely love and care about them.

We must arrive at the place in our walk with Jesus that we fully understand this simple gesture.

“We will do a lot for love”

What does this mean?

Here's an Example: If my wife decided that I don't vocally express my love for her enough and the only way for me to prove my love for her is to stand in the middle of a packed mall on Saturday and scream at the top of my lungs to everyone. Listen up everyone I have an announcement to make,

I Love my wife! I Love my wife! I Love my wife!

Then guess what? If this is really what is took, then I would be more than willing to set my self aside and prove my love for my wife.

Why?

Because we must be willing to do a lot for love.

This is the same perspective we must have and more with Jesus.

We're His Bride The Church and He's The Bride Groom!

So when we think about our life lived and sharing The Good News,

We must be willing to do a lot for love!

Are you willing to do a lot for love?

Better yet, would you do a lot for love?

Would you stand in a crowded mall and scream out. I love Jesus! He's my Lord and Savior!

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you should do this. I'm asking, would you do this?

Becoming Love

1 John 4:15-19, HCSB, says, 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God—God remains in him and he in God.

16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

17 In this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, for we are as He is in this world.

18 There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.

19 We love because He first loved us.


Colossians 3:14, NLT, says, 14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.

1 John 3:16, NLT, says, 16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.


1 John 4:8-10, NLT, says, 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

9 God showed how much He loved us by sending His One and Only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him.

10 This is real love not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.


In John 13:34-35, NLT, Jesus says, 34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.

35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”


In John 14:21, NLT, Jesus continues by saying, 21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love Me.

And because they love Me, My Father will love them.

And I will love them and reveal Myself to each of them.”


In John 15:12, NLT, Jesus proclaims a bold and powerful Truth when He says, 12 This is My Commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

I love this!

There is so much freedom found right here in such few words.

You mean to say that Jesus says we're capable of loving each other in the same way that He loves us.

Well, that takes things up a notch, sets the bar a little higher, and calls us to another level.

May we all have a revelation of what it is to Love each other in the same way that Jesus loves us.


Luke 6:27, NLT, says 27 “But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies!

Do good to those who hate you.


Romans 5:5, NLT, says, 5 And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because He has given us The Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love.


Romans 5:8, NLT, says, 8 But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.


Romans 8:35-37, NLT, says, 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love?

Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?

36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”)

37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.


Romans 12:9-10, NLT, says, 9 Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them.

Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.


Titus 3:4-5, NLT, says, 4 But when God our Savior revealed His kindness and love,

5 He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.

He washed away our sins, giving us a New Birth and New Life through The Holy Spirit.


Ephesians 5:1-2, NLT, says, Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are His dear children.

2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ.

He loved us and offered Himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.


And, Matthew 5:43-48, NKJV, says, 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

47 And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?

48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.


OK, so we know this is important. But, what is something we can take away from all this?

In order to have pure motives and love others with no selfish agenda, we must know what love is.

And, 1 Corinthians 13 is the substance of love itself.

1 Corinthians 13, NLT, says,

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind.

Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude.

It does not demand its own way.

It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless.

But love will last forever!

9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!

10 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child.

But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.

All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

Notice: Love is Patient and Love is Kind.

The first thing love is. Is patient.

Yet, so many of us have prayed for patience before and for some of us, it didn't go as planned.

Maybe we got stuck in every long line at the store or maybe one too many red stop lights.

Then, right when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, it did. And, finally when your patience had been tried and pushed to the limits.

You decided, I'm not praying for patience anymore and I'm never falling for that again.

Maybe you thought you'd be wiser and took a more peaceful approach.

Like, Lord,

I'm going to try and pray for patience again. But, please don't let me learn the hard way and so on.

All this may seem like no big deal on the surface.

But, that's all part of the enemies plan.

The last thing the devil wants.

Is for us to have a revelation of love and become, LOVE!

Listen, if we are going to love.

Which is the main focal point of The Great Commandment and The Great Commission.

Ultimately, everything hangs on love because love last forever.

It should be an honor to humble ourselves and pray for patience,

Because patience is the first attribute on the list of what love is.

Then, because we yield to patience, genuine kindness will follow and so on.

It is in this way, we are able to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.

By understanding, we are held accountable and called to be perfect, even as our Father in Heaven is perfect.

In this way,

We will not act as the pagans do,

But, As true Children of God who find great joy

and

Know we're called to love others in the same way that Jesus Christ loves us.

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