If You Love Me

Pastor Phil Vance

Highlights:
1.) Three conditions to be met in prayer
A. Pray in faith
B. Pray in Christ’s name
C. Pray in loving obedience

2.) Commandments: words to live your life by to make it good, not regrettable.

3.) True love is demonstrated in actions, not just words.

4. There are lots of people who know God’s commandments, but few who really want to keep them.

5.) The more we obey ➡ the more we know him ➡ the more we love Him ➡ the more we obey Him.

Discussion Questions:

1.) What from the message stood out to you as meaningful or applicable to your life and walk with God?

2.) How is keeping God’s commandments an act of love? Do you have a recent example from your life that you could share?

3.) What have you learned about God, His character, nature and your relationship with Him through obedience?

Key Scriptures:
– John 14:12-18 NKJV
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

-to keep: 65083, to guard by keeping an eye upon; obey

– John 15:13 NKJV
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

-Manifest: 1718 to shine