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Last meeting

Last meeting. Ice breaking in a Sunday school class . Service is a must (St Luke 11:23 and St Matthew 12:30) I serve because I love. “ALL” ..... in my life!. Which Is the First Commandment of All?.

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Last meeting

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  1. Last meeting • Ice breaking in a Sunday school class . • Service is a must (St Luke 11:23 and St Matthew 12:30) • I serve because I love. • “ALL” ..... in my life!

  2. Which Is the First Commandment of All? “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these.” St Mark 12 : 29 (Deuteronomy 6 & 10 , Matthew 22:37 , Luke 10:27)

  3. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. St Mary Coptic Orthodox Church Ottawa St Mark Pre Servants Group

  4. All .... Your ! • This commandment is a perfect . • What is “All” for you and others!

  5. Do we love God? • Yes we do ! • But ... Do we love Him correct? (1) • There are wrong ways to love God: • Fragile love (2) • Loving something else more than the Lord . (3) • Loving myself more than the Lord , but hiding in the Lord (4)

  6. How to love the Lord? • We agreed that we are not perfect in our love . • So how to grow in this love? • First : i have to find out where i am standing now. • Second : Check myself if i am growing or same as always. (1) • Third : What go i love more than the Lord?

  7. Step (1) to grow in loving the Lord : Steps to grow in loving the Lord : Hate the sin from all your heart. • How ?? (*) • Don’t justify your sin . (1) • Don’t blame others. (2) • Be very sensitive against any sin. (3) • Run away from evil . (4) • Run away from things which might seem to be right . (5)

  8. Step (2) to grow in loving the Lord : Ask that He may teach you how to love Him. • How ?? (*) • Simply ask Him .

  9. Step (3) to grow in loving the Lord : Establish private relation with Him! • Why?? (1) • How ?? (*) • Simply talk to Him about anything all the time. • Let Him be part of your daily activity (1) • Must set a time where you have a private meeting with the Lord. • Find suitable time and suitable place.

  10. Mangosteen

  11. Heavenly Fruit • He tried to describe it to her , but she commented “I want to taste , you keep talking , but I want to taste it.” • It is nothing I have ever tasted before. • It is indescribable delicious. • It is difficult to explain.

  12. How Mangosteen tastes ? When would you know how it tastes ?

  13. Summary : • We love God , but we need to love Him more (From “All” our heart). • To be able to love God we need: • Hate sin from all our heart. • Don’t justify my sin . (1) • Don’t blame others ( even evil ) . (2) • Be very sensitive against committing any sin. (3) • Run away from evil . (4) • Run away from things which might seem to be right . (5)

  14. Summary : • To be able to love God we need: • Ask Him to teach us how to love Him. • Establish a private relationship with God to taste His love and taste Eternity.

  15. Homework : • Spiritual exercise (private meeting with the Lord). • Personality test .

  16. Our Golden Rule ! 1 Corinthians 13 : 1 - 8

  17. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

  18. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Amen Make us worthy to pray thankfully: Our Father Who art in heaven.........

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