The eWORD – Unconditional
14 August 2011 @ Galilee / S T C
Dr Stanley L Scott
Introduction: When we consider God’s love as UNCONDITIONAL, then WE must put CONDITIONS on ourselves so that we can reap the fullest benefit from His blessing by being DISCIPLINED!!!
We choose to LOVE Him and follow His commandments because we LOVE Him!
Definitions:
Webster’s 1828 Definition
UNCONDI’TIONAL, a. Absolute; unreserved; not limited by any conditions.
DISCIPLINE, n. [L., to learn.]
1. Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending instruction in arts, sciences, correct sentiments, morals and manners, and due subordination to authority.
3. Rule of government; method of regulating principles and practice; as the discipline prescribed for the church.
4. Subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts or regulations;
CONDITION, n. [L., to build or make, to ordain; properly, to set or fix, or to set together or in order; con and do, to give; properly, to send.]
1. State; a particular mode of being; applied to external circumstances, to the body, to the mind, and to things. The word signifies a setting or fixing, and has a very general and indefinite application, coinciding nearly with state, from sto, to stand,
2. Quality; property; attribute.
3. State of mind; temper; temperament; complexion.
4. Moral quality; virtue or vice.
Main Text:
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Support Texts:
John 15:9 ¶ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Teaching Point: Strong discipline brings our bodies, will and emotions under the control of the WORD of God and therefore holds us in the place of walking/living in the blessing!!!
Action Point: Starting today, as quickly as possible, push to the limit your sense of conditions for putting “hard nose” limits into your life!
Determination Point: Be determined to get to the place where God our Father and His Word ARE absolute authority to YOU!!!
God Bless,
The Rev Dr
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