Look Up

This is a season of reset

Helping people follow Jesus together

• Help people become like Jesus 

  • Luke 6:40

• Walking as He walked

  • 1 John 2:6

Our Up Relationship is Prime

• Mark 12:30

Worship 

• Romans 12:1

• The heart of worship is loving God with our entire being.

• Latreia (Greek: λατρεία) - worship or service. To kiss (in the same way a dog licks its master). To revere, to adore.

• John 4:24 - worship

  • Proskyneo (Greek: προσκυνέω) - to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence

• Revelation 19:4

Our Worship is a Response 

• 1 John 4:19 - we love because he first loved us.

Our Worship Must be Real

• Mark 7:6 - Honoring God with our hearts, not just our lips. 

• 1 Samuel 15:22 - obedience not sacrifice

You are Loved 

• 1 John 3:1 - You are His child!

The Life You Live

• John 14:15 - love results in obedience

• 1 John 5:3a - keep His commands

• Acts 13:22 - a person aligned with God’s heart.

Dave Riddle - 7/19/20

koinōnia (Greek: κοινωνία) - fellowship, association, community, intimacy, joint participation (the share which one has in anything), communion. 

Living in koinōnia = Love 

An Order or Command to Love Others

• Mark 12:31 - love others as much as you love yourself.

• John 13:34 - love others the way Jesus loves us.

• 1 John 3:23 - love others as He commanded us.

Response 

• 1 John 4:11, 19 - our love is a response to the love Jesus has shown to us.

Integral

• Necessary for yielding completeness

• 1 John 4:12 - our faith becomes more complete as we walk in love.

Maturity and Progression

• 1 Peter 1:22-23

  • A sincere love. Not merely pretending to love others.

  • Earnestly, fervently, constantly loving one another.

• 1 Corinthians 13 - love is foundational. Without it, our actions are meaningless.

Confirmation

• John 13:35 - This is how all people will know that we are truly followers of Christ.

Intimacy 

• A relationship that goes deeper than “we go to the same church”.

• Requires vulnerability.

  • Might require taking some risks.

Investment

• Helping people follow Jesus together.

Connected and Contributing to One Another

• Not living in an individual reality, but a “One Another” reality.

  • Love one another

  • Live in harmony with one another

  • Forgive one another 

  • Honor one another

  • ...And many many more 

    • Over 100 occurrences in scripture.

    • Only possible through the power of the Holy Spirit

How is God calling you to take the next step towards koinōnia?

• 1 Peter 1:22-23

This service is split up into multiple segments of teaching, worship, and prayer.

Memorials

“Therefore these stones will always be  a memorial for the Israelites.” Joshua 4:7 CSB

zakar: to pierce, to impress (on the memory), to remember or be remembered, to recollect, to commemorate.

zikrown: a memorial, reminder or remembrance. It is an object reminder or token act by which something is brought to mind. 

Why do we need them?

• We’re prone to forget

  • Deuteronomy 4:9

  • Deuteronomy 6:12

  • Joshua 4:6-7

  • Judges 2:10

What are their features?

• They’re a Statement

  • Joshua 4:24

• They’re Enduring

  • Joshua 4:7

• They’re Distinctive

  • Joshua 4:8

Communion as a memorial

Power Within
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
- We are not ekkakeō (ἐκκακέω) - to be utterly spiritless, to be wearied out, exhausted
- 2 Corinthians 4:7-9
- Galatians 2:20
- Lamentations 3:19-24

Useful Struggle
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
- “incomparable” - hyperbolē (ὑπερβάλλω) - metaphorically, superiority, excellence, preeminence
- James 4:14b
- 2 Corinthians 12:10

Different Point of View
- 2 Corinthians 4:18