Founded on Love, Built by Faithfulness
Founded on Love, Built by Faithfulness
Sermon Synopsis
Jesus is busy building. By the Spirit, He is active establishing a dwelling for Himself. At the center of it all, He is seated upon the Throne. What it is has not been fully realized. It is a coming Kingdom that cannot be thwarted, a dwelling of God in the midst of His people.
As in the days of Haggai, the need today to recognize, humbly re-commit, and practically dedicate ourselves to His building is paramount (Psalm 132). Haggai and his people were commissioned to rebuild a Temple once destroyed. We have been commissioned to be built together in love to become a House of living stones ready to offer spiritual sacrifices to God the Father through Jesus (1 Peter 2:5). The building is in us and through us, together.
As we unite our hearts with that of the Great Master Builder, we become the hands and feet walking out His eternal, master plan to bring His Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.
Jesus is coming soon. Are you down for what He is building up?
Malachi 1:2-5
2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” 4 If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’” 5 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!”
Jeremiah 31:3-4
3 the Lord appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.
John 13:1
13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 13:26-31
26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” 28 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. 29 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. 30 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
John 13:36-38
36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.” 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” 38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.
John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”