3.6.22 Hillside Bible Church Sermon - Loving God

Sermon Summary

In Deuteronomy 5, the Ten Commandments are restated for Israel. Many feel the commandments are burdensome and may even resent them - though they keep them in a desire to appear good. God, however, sees the heart and desires his people to love him as he states in Deuteronomy 6:4. Obedience is meant to flow from love. The commandments of God give shape and form to a relationship of love. He has shown his love by redeeming a people for himself. Now we love him in return. Our love for the Lord is a matter of delight and will. 

• When delight is thin, do you choose to act with love to live in relationship with the Lord? Do you hear him in his word and speak to him in prayer even when your emotions do not connect? This is a way we love the Lord with our wills.
• Do you delight in the Lord? A relationship with the Lord is not meant to be drudgery! If you lack delight, seek to know God more by reading his word, by worshiping, and by being among his people. Pray and ask the Lord to give you a heart that delights in him.