Phil Firth - Sunday, 10 July 2022
Our Love for Each Other
Scripture References: John 15:1-17, Philippians 3:1-11, John 17:20-26
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CloseWe have been looking at what the Bible means when it uses the word “love”. As Andrew reminded us last week: it is possibly the most misused word in our world today. Over the last two weeks we have seen the meaning of the word “love” as the Bible uses it. It is very different to how we hear and see it used around us every day. As part of God’s mob here in Narrabri it is important that we listen to what our Lord says about our love for each other. The love He shows us also gives us a better way to live in this world. He reveals where love comes from. How we can love. What stops us loving each other and what loving each other results in.
Scripture References: John 15:1-17, Philippians 3:1-11, John 17:20-26
From Series: Service - Sunday Morning, Love | More Messages from Phil Firth | Download Audio
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Does God Care? Do We Care? | Bernard Gabbott | Sunday, 2 July 2023 | Kids Talk | Watch | Listen |
Our Love for the World | Ralph Wood | Sunday, 17 July 2022 | Kids Talk | Watch | Listen |
Our Love for Each Other | Phil Firth | Sunday, 10 July 2022 | Kids Talk | Watch | Listen |
Our Love for God | Andrew McClenaghan | Sunday, 3 July 2022 | Kids Talk | Watch | Listen |
God's Love for Us | Bernard Gabbott | Sunday, 26 June 2022 | Kids Talk | Watch | Listen |
Love others as Jesus has loved us | Neil Hunt | Sunday, 28 April 2019 | Watch | Listen | |
Sinner's Love | Neil Hunt | Sunday, 27 January 2019 | Listen | ||
God's Love and Ours | Phil Firth | Sunday, 15 April 2012 | Listen |
We love a turning point. Whether it is a story or a football game. Hope dawning at the darkest time. Where is the great turning point in Esther? It could be our memory verse, when Esther is persuaded by Mordecai to act to save her people. It could be when the king looks with favour upon Esther and holds out the golden scepter to her. It could be when Haman is forced to lead Mordecai through the city mounted on the king’s horse and proclaims that he is the man the king delights to honour. They are major events in the story of Esther. They are turning points of a sort. But the writer of Esther points us to another event. That looks so trivial.
Esther is such an exciting story! There are evil plots. There are interesting yet flawed characters. There is risk and sacrifice. There is heroism and villainy. Today, we are introduced to the villain of the plot, and what an evil scheming villain he is! He spins lies and concocts murderous plans to do away with the Jews, God’s covenant people. How will the people respond? Will he get away with his evil plan? Will God, who is not mentioned at all, intervene to protect His people, to live up to the promises He made to Abraham, the people at Mt Sinai, and to David?
There is so much that sounds familiar in these first two chapters of Esther: the world is dominated by loud and brash and imposing and degraded power, the people of God are small and struggling and faced with ambiguous decisions and actions and God seems so far away he is almost absent (at least to our minds and hearts). As we read this book, we will need God’s revelation to help us navigate its strangeness, its ambiguity, and its confrontational narrative. In this, we have the key to the book—the lack of God’s name in letters does not mean the lack of God’s presence.
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