Am I Loved?

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Disclaimer: Today’s sermon comes from my reading in a book by Jeff Myers. The Secret Battle of Ideas about God: Overcoming the Outbreak of Five Fatal Worldviews.  I have organized, condensed and added my own thoughts, but much of the content and framework are Dr. Myers thoughts, Secondly, I am not going to preach exegetically today as is my normal pattern, walking us through a text.  I want to talk more pastorally, topically today, nevertheless I believe this will be fruitful for us as we gather today.  I pray these words are timely.

1. Introduction
   1. There are invisible forces that shape our lives
   2. Worldviews
2. Stopping bad Ideas
   1. Know the truth so that you can identify and compare every idea to it.
      1. The Word is Truth (Ps 119:105, Heb 4:12, 2 Cor 10:5)
      2. Jesus Is The Truth (John 14:6, Mt 11:28)
   2. One must believe and live out the Truth (2Cor 11:3)
   3. Identify the twisting of the truth
   4. Isolate the lies from the truth (Rom 12:1)
   5. Informed about the lies
   6. Invest in others
3. Am I Loved?
   1. Secularism’s lie: Sex is love
   2. Marxism’s lie: Free sex is true love
   3. Postmodernism’s Lie: Sex with whomever, however, whenever is love.
4. You are loved by God (Rom 8:35, 38-39)
   1. We all long to be loved by a person. (1Jn 3:16)
      1. All the New age spiritualities can offer you is a force to connect with in the world
      2. God is love, but God is also a personal being.
      3. In Christ there is love. In the Father there is love. In the Spirit there is love. (Mk 10:21, Jn 11:5, Rom 1:7, 15:30, Jude 1 1Jn 3:16)
   2. God’s love is selfless (1Cor 13:4-7)
   3. God pours this love into the hearts of believers by his HS (Rom 5:5)
   4. How Jesus meets our hearts deepest longings.
      1. Though you hated God, violate his statues, turn from his Son, God sought a way to redeem you (Jn 3:16)
      2. God cares for us (1Pet 5:7)
      3. He sings over you (Zeph 3:17)
      4. He never leaves you (Heb 13:5)
      5. Nothing in all creation can separate you from his love in Christ (Rom 8:39)