CrossPoint Fellowship Messages

This is the greatest commandment given to us - to love God with literally all of who we are. What does that look like and how do we accomplish that?

• The entirety of Christian living can be summed up in two things - loving God and loving others.
• We can’t love God wholly and completely if we have placed something before him. 
• Obedience is the only thing we have to offer in return for all he has done for us.
• Real love stands the test of time.

The way we love our family shows how God loves His Church. There are various passages throughout both the Old and New Testaments teaching us how to love our spouse, children, and parents. These are important relationships both selfishly for our own wellbeing, but also to show the world the type of life God desires for us all to have and what God’s relationship with His Church looks like, one abundant with love and respect.

- A hardened heart closes reasonable ears. 

- Serve the Lord by supporting your husband's God-given place of authority.

- Husbands are called to sacrifice for their wives in the same way that Christ did for the church. 

- The goal, husbands, is to live, love, and lead in such a way, that our wives don’t have to plug their noses as they serve the Lord by submitting to our leadership. 

- God hates abuse.

- We teach our children how to treat us based on how we treat our parents. And we teach our children how to raise their children by how we raise them.

This is how people will know we are of God. Jesus calls His followers to love each other at a higher standard, the way He loves us. This encompasses everything that Jesus did and does for us, even going to the cross on our behalf.

• Christ's love begins at the cross.
• Our ability to love one another is a sign of our salvation.
• Christ lived in a way that refused exaltation. This allowed him to love in a way that made exaltation possible for others.
• He lived a life that was not his own, so that we might reap what we could not sew - the righteousness of God.

This is the first way people will know God’s love. This is also considered the second greatest commandment by Christ Himself, so it should be important to us. This is the foundation, the baseline for how we love everyone, and everything else is built upon it.

• A single question has the power to change the world.
• Our neighbor is the one who loves us when others would leave us. 
• Too many of us are concerned with others receiving what they deserve, when Christ ensured that we would never have to be in that situation. 

A humble believer sees God’s provision in all things and can find contentment regardless.

• Humility allows us to show appreciation for the love of others. 
• Paul had needs. What he had lost was his anxieties. 
• Anxiety says "What am I going to do about this situation"? Faith says "I know God is working in this situation."
• It’s one thing to say that God is in control. To live that way is an accomplishment.
• Humility allows Christians to find equilibrium in the imbalance of life.

A humble Christian never sees him or herself as a completed work. They continue to push forward towards the Lord.

• The pinnacle of spiritual maturity can only be obtained when humility is perfected.
• Humility allows us to find joy in the pursuit of Christ while refusing to rest on past accomplishments or be discouraged by past failures.
• To rest on what we have done well is to rely on our own merit. To allow past failures to consume us and slow our progress is to ignore God's grace. 

A humble believer's affection for Christ doesn’t waiver due to their circumstances.

• Circumstances should never influence our influence on others.
• An attitude of humility allows a believer to experience a faith of longevity.
• In our humility, we know that no human accomplishment is worthy of boasting.
• All of us can find something to boast about. But humility will not allow us to misjudge our own righteousness. 
• Humility recognizes that Christ is greater than anything we ourselves can provide.

Lights shine, and our job as Christians is to shine light on what is right and good.

• We live in a world shrouded with darkness.
• We are to be lights in this world of darkness.
• What is light for the believer? Jesus.
• We follow and obey Jesus because that’s the only way to reflect the light of Christ.
• We are to stand strong and unyielding in our faith and devotion to Christ so that the world might not be swallowed by darkness.

Humble Christians seek to imitate Christ in the way they live their life. Christ himself was the perfect example of humility, even denying his own Godliness.

• Humble Christians seek unity with the body of Christ.
• By definition, a Bible believing, God-fearing, Christ-loving Christian is humble. 
• A spirit of pride in human relationships indicates a lack of humility before God.
• Christ wasn’t held to the cross by the nails in his hand and feet. It was his humility that kept him there in your place.

A humble believer seeks to exalt Christ rather than themselves regardless of their own circumstances.

• Humble Christians are more concerned with spiritual deliverance than physical deliverance. 
• It seems that humility exists in us because we are faithful. And that because we are faithful, we are able to approach life with humility.
• A humble Christian’s purpose for living isn’t to glorify themselves, but to ensure that Christ be glorified in and through them.
• Humble Christians put others' needs before their own desires.
• As Christians, living for Christ and one another only succeeds if we see the other as more significant than ourselves.