Good morning and welcome in. Today we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture from Luke chapter 10 but before we do that, I wanted to tell you a little story.
When I was a young child I used to like playing with toy cars. I liked them so much that I even had a car that I could pedal down the road after school. But there was a very interesting car created back in the late 1940s which has become known as a Tucker 48. This vehicle had a lot of new features that were automotive “firsts” to the car industry. One of these new innovations was the location of a third rotating directional headlamp that was mounted in the center of the hood, which would turn with the steering column in order to light the car’s path around corners.
Just as the Tucker could directionally aim the center headlamp of its vehicle, we must aim our hearts in the right direction. Love is an extremely strong emotion that can direct and guide our path in life, it just depends on what that light is shining upon. As a headlight points to the road, we must point our love to Christ. Love is very much like a directional headlight but needs to be focused on the right thing in order to inherit eternal life someday. Misplaced love can lead you right into the ditch.
Luke 10:25-28 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
The word “all” means the entirety of one’s energy or interest. Love is a deep devotion to someone or something. In this day and age, people may quickly remember to love your neighbor as yourself but then completely forget the first commandment. Our God is a God of order and he puts things in order for a reason. The first commandment is first for a reason. Our love for God must be greater than anything upon this Earth.
In order to love the Lord perfectly, we need to prove our love by our works. We need to show Him we love Him by keeping His commandments. I had been told since I was a very young child that you cannot get to heaven by keeping commandments. I learned later that those who teach such things are heretics. Keeping the commandments of Christ shows that we love him. A commandment is something that is told for you to do or to keep.
How do you show an Earthly dad that you love Him? If your dad told you to clean your room before supper, you would have been given a commandment that needs to be kept. When you obey and do as you are told, it pleases your dad. Just like the captain of a ship a dad has complete authority over his entire household. When he commands his wife to have supper ready at 5pm, and she does what she is told, it pleases him. Her obedience is the proof of her love. As a Christian, this is the same way that we are to treat the heavenly father, in humble submission to His will and commands. We should desire to please God, but it requires doing what you are told.
John 14:21 – He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Like the Tucker headlight, what is your love placed upon? Is it focused on doing the will of God or your own? Misplaced love can lead you away from the truth.
1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
We find In this passage that love can lead you in the wrong direction. Remember that Divine love is true love, but the world’s form of love can be focused on the wrong thing. Like turning the steering wheel, our love must be focused on pleasing God, loving Him with a perfect and obedient heart. We excel in the Christian faith through obedience to the precious Son of God who suffered and died for our salvation. Obedience to Christ is the path to righteousness and salvation.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Those who refuse to obey Christ and willfully choose to live in fornication, adultery or other sins are liars.
1 John 2:3-5 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Is your love focused on doing God’s will or is it focused on the world? Those who profess to be followers of Jesus need to follow what He followed,… pleasing and doing the will of God. Love for God must be greater than anything in our lives. Turning from relatives or friends doesn’t mean you don’t care about them, it just means that you love Christ more, like a wife who loves her own husband above and beyond the love for a parent. In a marriage the wife represents the church and needs to serve her husband as a way that the church serves Christ. True love for God will result in obedience towards Him.
John 14:15 – If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:23-24 – Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
1 John 5:3 – For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Love is a very strong emotion but just make sure that your greatest love is God because it will result in obedience to His commands and what He taught. Love for Him will guide us down the narrow path of life in our decision making and the course we must follow. Divine love for God will continue to point you in the right direction, kinda like a ….
….Tucker 48.
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