{"id":947,"date":"2011-11-27T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:10","slug":"love-worthy-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Love Worthy of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 21:15-19, Matthew 10:37-39<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Is Gods love a love of jealousy that shuts out even our loved ones?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Is it possible to love too much?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The love of a mother for her baby.<br \/>\n2. The love of a father for his home.<br \/>\n3. The love of a bride and groom.<!--more--><br \/>\n4. The love of men for their country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No! It is impossible to love too much, but it is possible to love unwisely. We can&#8217;t be wrong in living, but we can love in the wrong way. Our love can never be too great, but our love can be too cheap!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>II: What is Unworthy Love?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Animal love that degrades and ruins.<br \/>\n2. Self-centered love that shuts out everything that doesn&#8217;t contribute to its personal good.<br \/>\n3. Love that closes our eyes to the sins of the loved one, (Eli and his sons).<br \/>\n4. Love that refuses to sacrifice for the loved ones.<br \/>\n5. Love that stops short of producing spiritual fruit that honors Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Love that is worthy of Christ.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. A love that loves in the face of sins yet never compromises.<br \/>\n2. Love that will bear the Cross and despise the shame.<br \/>\n3. Love that honors Christ will love the loved one into the likeness of Christ. It will be a passion for truth, honesty, and humility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you.&#8221; John 13:34.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 21:15-19, Matthew 10:37-39 Is Gods love a love of jealousy that shuts out even our loved ones? I: Is it possible to love too much? 1. The love of a mother for her baby. 2. The love of a father for his home. 3. The love of a bride and groom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}