Ordinary People, ExtraOrdinary Obedience (3 of 4)

RESTORING YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE

Ordinary People, ExtraOrdinary Obedience

Mark 12:30-31

Introduction

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  [And] Love your neighbor as yourself.  There’s no greater commandment than these.”  Mk. 12:30-31; Matt 22:40 

With all your heart…

SEEK God passionately!  Deut. 4:29

LOVE God passionately!  Deut. 6:6

SERVE God passionately!  Deut. 10:12

OBEY God passionately!  Deut. 30:2

TRUST God passionately!  Pr. 3:5

Do everything passionately!  Col. 3:23

“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor!”  Romans 12:11 

SEVEN PASSION-KILLERS  

1.  AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE Isa. 49:4

2.  AN UNEMPLOYED TALENT 1 Cor. 7:17

3.  AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE 1 Timothy 4:7b 

4.  AN UNCONFESSED SIN Ps. 38:4, 6; 1 John 1:9

5.  AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT Job 5:2; 18:4 

6.  AN UNSUPPORTED LIFESTYLE Eccl. 4:9-10 

7.  AN UNDERNOURISHED SPIRIT Col. 2:6-7; Ex. 34:14;
Rev 3:15-16 

Which items do you need to work on?

“You have forsaken your first love.  Remember the height from which you’ve fallen!  Repent and do the things you did at first.”  Rev. 2:4-5