Chosen To

Be A People
Demonstrating
Love
John Isaacs
KingsWay Community Church

January 13, 2008

Created For Glory
Isaiah 43:7
Everyone who is called by My
name, Whom I have
created for My glory;
I have formed him, yes, I have
made him."
Chosen For Glory
1 Peter 2:9-12
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, His own special
people, that you may proclaim the praises
of Him who called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light; 10 who once were not
a people but are now the people of God,
who had not obtained mercy but now have
obtained mercy.
1 Peter 2:9-12 (cont.)
11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and
pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which
war against the soul, 12 having your
conduct honorable among the Gentiles,
that when they speak against you as
evildoers, they may, by your good works
which they observe, glorify God in the
day of visitation.
 Chosen by God
to be His people -
Created to fill the
earth with His
Glory!
Our Church Covenant
• Glorify God as a Loving People.
• Glorify God as a United People.
• Glorify God as a Prophetic People.
• Glorify God as a People of Praise.
• Glorify God as a People of Prayer.
• Glorify God as a People of Light.
• Glorify God as a People of Blessing.
 GOD

Prophetic (Listen)
Praise Prayer

Loving CHURCH United

God’s Chosen
People

Light Blessing
Prophetic (Speak)

THE WORLD
Jude 1:20-21
But you, beloved, building yourselves
up on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Spirit, keep
yourselves in the love of
God, looking for the mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Ephesians 5:1-2
1 Therefore be imitators of God as
dear children.
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.
Definition
of Love
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another; as I
have loved you, that you also love
one another. By this all will know that
you are My disciples, if you have love
for one another.
Jesus Love
Selfless
Humble
Sacrificial
Obedient
 Agape Love
It Is Not …
1. Envious 5. Self-seeking
2. Boastful 6. Easily Angered
3. Proud 7. Keeping Records
4. Rude 8. Enjoying Evil
 Agape Love
It Is …
1. Patient 4. Optimistic
2. Kind 5. Hopeful
3. Protective 6. Enduring
 Love Fervently
1 Peter 4:8-10
8 And above all things have fervent
love for one another, for love will cover
a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to
one another without grumbling. 10 As
each one has received a gift, minister it
to one another, as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God.
Love Fervently
Greek: Ektenes

“Stretched Out” Love

 Love Fervently
1. Looking beyond faults, quirks,
failures, and mistakes. 1 Peter 4:8
2. Offering hospitality – investing
my resources relationally. 1 Peter 4:9
3. Serving (ministering to) each
other. 1 Peter 4:10
4. Stewarding grace – dispensing
God’s mercy and grace. 1 Peter 4:10
Direction
of Love
1. Love God
2. Love Each Other
3. Love All People
• Love God
Matthew 22:37-38
37 Jesus said to him, " 'You shall
love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all
your mind.'
38 "This is the first and great
commandment.
2. Love Each Other
1 John 5:1
Whoever believes that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God, and everyone
who loves Him who begot also loves
him who is begotten of Him.
2. Love Each Other
John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to
you, that you love one another; as I
have loved you, that you also love
one another.
35 By this all will know that you are
My disciples, if you have love for
one another.
3. Love All People
John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might
be saved.
3. Love All People
Matthew 9:35-36
35 Then Jesus went about all the
cities and villages, teaching in their
synagogues, preaching the gospel
of the kingdom, and healing every
sickness and every disease among
the people.
3. Love All People
Matthew 9:35-36 (cont.)
36 But when He saw the multitudes,
He was moved with compassion for
them, because they were weary and
scattered, like sheep having no
shepherd.
3. Love All People
Matthew 5:46-47
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?
Demonstration
of Love
1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not
love in word or in tongue,
but in deed and in truth.
• Love God
John 4:23-24
23 But the hour is coming, and now
is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and
truth; for the Father is seeking such
to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit, and those who
worship Him must worship in spirit
and truth."
• Love God
John 14:15
If you love Me, keep My
commandments.
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love, just as I
have kept My Father's
commandments and abide in His
love.
• Love God
Psalm 97:10
You who love the Lord, hate evil!
He preserves the souls of His saints;
He delivers them out of the hand of
the wicked.
 Demonstrate Our
Love For God
1. Worship
2. Keeping His Commands
3. Hating Evil
2. Love Each Other
2 Corinthians 2:7-8
7 so that, on the contrary, you ought
rather to forgive and comfort him,
lest perhaps such a one be
swallowed up with too much sorrow.
8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm
your love to him.
2. Love Each Other
Galatians 5:13
For you, brethren, have been called
to liberty; only do not use liberty as
an opportunity for the flesh, but
through love serve one another.
2. Love Each Other
Hebrews 10:24-25
24 Let us think of ways to motivate
one another to acts of love and good
works. 25 And let us not neglect
our meeting together, as some
people do, but encourage one
another, especially now that the day
of his return is drawing near. (NLT)
 Demonstrate Our
Love For Each Other
1. Forgiving
2. Serving
3. Fellowshipping
3. Love All People
Matthew 28:19-20
19 Go therefore and make disciples
of all the nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all
things that I have commanded you;
and lo, I am with you always, even
to the end of the age. Amen.
3. Love All People
Matthew 9:37-38
37 Then He said to His disciples,
"The harvest truly is plentiful, but the
laborers are few.
38 Therefore pray the Lord of the
harvest to send out laborers into His
harvest."
3. Love All People
Romans 10:14
How then shall they call on Him in
whom they have not believed? And
how shall they believe in Him of
whom they have not heard? And
how shall they hear without a
preacher?
3. Love All People
Matthew 25:31-40
31 When the Son of Man comes in
His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then He will sit on the
throne of His glory. 32 All the
nations will be gathered before Him,
and He will separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divides his
sheep from the goats.
3. Love All People
Matthew 25:31-40 (cont.)
33 And He will set the sheep on His
right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then the King will say to those
on His right hand, 'Come, you
blessed of My Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world:
3. Love All People
Matthew 25:31-40 (cont.)
35 for I was hungry and you gave
Me food; I was thirsty and you gave
Me drink; I was a stranger and you
took Me in; 36 I was naked and you
clothed Me; I was sick and you
visited Me; I was in prison and you
came to Me.'
3. Love All People
Matthew 25:31-40 (cont.)
37 Then the righteous will answer
Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see
You hungry and feed You, or thirsty
and give You drink? 38 When did we
see You a stranger and take You in,
or naked and clothe You? 39 Or
when did we see You sick, or in
prison, and come to You?'
3. Love All People
Matthew 25:31-40 (cont.)
40 And the King will answer and say
to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you,
inasmuch as you did it to one of the
least of these My brethren, you did it
to Me.'
 Demonstrate Our
Love For All People
1. Personal Evangelism
2. Praying For & Supporting
Christian Ministries
3. Acts of Compassion
Chosen by God to
be His people -
Created to fill
the earth with
His LOVE.