This last Sunday, Pastor Mark preached through James 2:8–13, part seven of our James: Jesus’ Bold Little Brother series. Catch up on the sermon below and share the following quotes and images with your friends and family on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Christianity begins with God’s love for you. Before God asks you to love him or love anyone else, he loves you first, and he gives you his love to love him back and to love others. King Jesus left his throne in heaven, lived as a man under the law, went to the cross, suffered and died in our place, paying the penalty for all of our sin—all because he loved us.
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The Bible says that God loves his people like a husband loves his wife & like a father loves his children. #boldJames
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When u see a dad holding a newborn, protecting them bc he cherishes them, God loves his people like that. #boldJames
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When you see a dad holding a toddler’s hand, helping them to walk safely, God loves his people like that. #boldJames
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Before God asks you to love him or anyone else, he loves you, & gives you his love to love him & others. #boldJames
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Before the Bible is principles to live by, it’s a person to live for—Jesus, who is the love of God. #boldJames
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The answer to all the problems is always the same. It’s the love of Jesus. #boldJames
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Love starts upstream with God & it flows through his people back in worship to him & in help to others. #boldJames
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There’s no right understanding of love apart from God’s love, which is only to be found in the God’s word. #boldJames
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To understand love, we begin with the Scriptures. The Scriptures reveal to us who God is & how God loves. #boldJames
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We’re worse than we feared & more loved than we hoped. And it’s only made possible through Jesus. #boldJames
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When we put ourselves as the center of the universe, we’re miserable bc that’s not what we’re created for. #boldJames
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Every time the Bible speaks of God’s love, it’s pointing to Jesus’ cross. #boldJames
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The holiness of God & the love of God intersect at the cross of Jesus & he calls that mercy. #boldJames
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There’s no understanding of love, there’s no demonstration of love, apart from the cross of Jesus. #boldJames
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It’s one thing to love your beloved. It’s another to love your enemy & make them your beloved. #boldJames
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You can’t receive the love of Jesus & not become more like Jesus. #boldJames
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God loves us so much that he doesn’t just tolerate us, he transforms us. #boldJames
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Recommended resources
For those who would like to delve deeper into the topics covered by the sermon, we’ve found a few good places to start.
I am loved
Sermon from the Ephesians series
Jesus loves the church the way a groom loves his bride. He acts as her head, giver, sanctifier/cleanser, and nourisher/cherisher. This relationship provides a picture of what a marriage between a husband and wife should look like. The following sermon explores what it means for wives to submit to and respect their husbands and for husbands to love and lead their wives, the way Jesus would.
How to love people well
By Pastor Dave Bruskas
As Paul wrote to Timothy, the missionary’s charge is love that comes from a pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith. So what does each of those look like?
There is no love without wrath
By Tim Keller
Fairly often, I meet people who say, “I have a personal relationship with a loving God, yet I don’t believe in Jesus Christ at all.”
That idol you love doesn’t love you back
By Justin Buzzard
Everyone has to live for something and if that something isn’t the one true God, it will be a false God—an idol.
