Lo Vest Thou Me

Developing Love for Jesus to be an Effective Evangelist as a Student and Professional

March 21, 2009  

 

 

 

 

A worker in God's Vineyard  

Many are called...

 

 

...but few are chosen

 

 

A seaside interview

 

 

John 21:17

He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? Peter was

grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me?

 

 

and he said to him, Lord, you know

everything ; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep.

 

 

 

Do you love me?  

Do you love Me? YOU

Who are you?  

 

Who am I?

 

 

What is man that thou art mindful of him?

 

 

Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.  

 

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

 

 

Do you Love Me?

 

 

Do You Love Me?

Are you willing to give up everything for me?

 

 

Luke 14:33

So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple

 

 

Give up our wealth If you would be perfect,  go, sell what you  possess and give to the  poor, and you will have  treasure in heaven Matthew 19:21ESV

 

 

Give up your plans By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. Hebrews 11:8  

 

Give up your Ambitions By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin

 

 

Give up your talents And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more. Matthew 25:22  

 

Give up your relationships Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matthew 10:37  

 

He said, Take your  son, your only son  Isaac, whom you  love, and go to the  land of Moriah, and  offer him there as a  burnt offering on  one of the  mountains of which  I shall tell you.  

 

Genesis 22:2

Give up your life For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matthew 16:25

 

 

Do you love Me? Will you take up your  cross and follow me?

 

 

This is our Job description And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me Luke 9:23

 

 

How do we do that? And the King will answer them, Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. Matthew 25:40

 

 

I am hungry ... you gave me food...

 

 

I am naked... you clothe me...

 

 

I am homeless... you took me in..

 

 

I am sick ... you visited me...

 

 

I am in prison... you came to me

 

 

...if we are the Body Why aren't His arms reaching Why aren't His hands healing Why aren't His words teaching And if we are the Body Why aren't His feet going Why is His love not showing them there is a way  

 

How do we qualify for God's work? The question that Christ had put to Peter was significant. He mentioned only one condition of discipleship and service. "Lovest thou Me?" He said. This is the essential qualification.  

 

How do we love God?

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

 

 

How do we show we love God?

You shall love your neighbor as yourself

 

 

I love you ...

 

 

Do you love me?