The Heartbeat of Love

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The Heartbeat of Love

• Victorious Living series part 2
• Mark 1228-31 Selected

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
Feb 12, 2006
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• Human Heart beats 75 times / minute or 2.5
  billion times over a 70yr lifetime. Pumping 3000
  gallons of blood per day or 650,000 per year
  filling 81 RR tank cars.

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• Heart in Scripture is our innermost being, its
  your feelings, desires, passions, thoughts,
  understanding and will. Its the place of
  conscious and decisive spiritual activity

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The Battle Belongs to the Lord

• Proverbs 423 Above all else, guard your heart,
  for it is the wellspring of life.

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The Greeks used various words to describe
Love...

• Eros Erotic, Sensual Love
• Storge Caregiving, Compassionate Love
• Philio Friendship, Brotherly Love
• Koinonia Mutual, Giving Receiving Love
• Agape Self-giving, Sacrificial Love

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1. God is Love...

• 1 John 47-8 Dear friends, let us love one
  another, for love comes from God. Everyone who
  loves has been born of God and knows God. 8
  Whoever does not love does not know God, because
  God is love.

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Gods...

• Wondrous Love!
• Psalms 177 Show the wonder of your great love,
  you who save by your right hand those who take
  refuge in you from their foes.
• Psalms 10311 For as high as the heavens are
  above the earth, so great is his love for those
  who fear him

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Gods...

• Wondrous Love!
• Everlasting Love!
• Jeremiah 313 The LORD appeared to us in the
  past, saying "I have loved you with an
  everlasting love I have drawn you with
  loving-kindness.
• ...His love endures forever (seen 41 times)

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Gods...

• Wondrous Love!
• Everlasting Love!
• Sacrificial Love!
• 1 John 49-10 This is how God showed his love
  among us He sent his one and only Son into the
  world that we might live through him. 10 This is
  love not that we loved God, but that he loved us
  and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our
  sins.

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• Romans 58 But God demonstrates his own love for
  us in this While we were still sinners, Christ
  died for us.
• 1 John 316a This is how we know what love is
  Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.

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Teardown Some Barriersto Love...

• Unresolved Anger
• Unforgiveness
• Bitterness
• Self-centeredness
• Worldly Interests
• Busyness

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Love

• 1 Corinthians 134-8a Love is patient, love is
  kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is
  not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not
  self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps
  no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in
  evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always
  protects, always trusts, always hopes, always
  perseveres. 8 Love never fails..

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3. Requires A Choice to Be Loving...

• God Supremely!
• Each Other Sincerely!
• Mark 1230-31 Love the Lord your God with all
  your heart and with all your soul and with all
  your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The
  second is this 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
  There is no commandment greater than these."

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• Love... Thoughtfully, Passionately, Practically!

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John 1334-35 "A new command I give you Love one
another. As I have loved you, so you must love
one another. 35 By this all men will know that
you are my disciples, if you love one another."
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• The loneliest place in the world is the human
  heart when love is absent.

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Experience Victory with the Heartbeat of Love!

• Romans 835-39 Who shall separate us from the
  love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
  persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or
  sword? 36 As it is written "For your sake we
  face death all day long we are considered as
  sheep to be slaughtered...

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Experience Victory with the Heartbeat of Love!

• 37 ...No, in all these things we are more than
  conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am
  convinced that neither death nor life, neither
  angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
  future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor
  depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
  able to separate us from the love of God that is
  in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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The Heartbeat of Love is Jesus!
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• Victorious Living is when we Allow Christs Love
  to flow through us!