A Mindset On The Love Command
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: As a believer for you to walk in the commandment of love you are first
of all going to have to develop a mind that is set on the commandment of
love. You got to get to a place
where this commandment is on your mind 24/7. -2 Peter 3:1
I.
The Way of Love
will lead you to the destination called God’s best
A. The way of love will lead
you to the destination where the Word is working in your life; a destination
called working Word (Matt 22:40)
B. The way of love will lead
you out of fear, out of oppression, and into victory. (1 John 4:18, Isaiah
54:14, 1 Corinthians 13:8); to the destination called
Victory all the Time.
C. The way of love will lead
you to the destination of manifested ways, manifested zoe, and manifested Word
(John 14:21)
1.
A
consciousness of love that will lead people to the destination called
manifestation
D. The way of love will lead
you to days of Heaven on the Earth (Deuteronomy 11)
E. Where do want to go? What destination do you want to reach?
1.
Then
travel the way that’s going to take you there no matter if you feel like it or
not
II. You cannot consistently walk in the way love without first of
all having a mind that is constantly set on the commandment of love.
A. 2 Peter 3:1-2-I’m not saying something that you haven’t heard before. You’ve heard this before. I’m saying this to remind you of
it. I’m saying this to bring it
from the back of your mind, to the front of your mind.
1.
Stir
up – to get up, arouse, stimulate, awake, raise
a. I’m writing this 2 get 2
something that is already in ur mind & make it active again
2.
I
am reminding u of this & arousing this in ur thinking, so that you’ll be
conscious of it
a. Remembrance –
reminder, memory, putting in remembrance
1)
By
reminding you of this, I am arousing this in your thinking
3.
Develop
a consciousness of the COL & your life will never be the same
B. U have
to develop a COL consciousness.
What specifically are we being conscious of?
1.
It’s
not that you don’t know this commandment, you’re just not conscious of it in
your life and it is costing you
a. This is not something
that you haven’t heard before, but is something that you’re not conscious of
throughout your day
b. Everything that I do,
say, or think, I’m doing it, saying it, and thinking it being mindful of this
commandment
1)
Everything
I do, I do it with a consciousness of this commandment of love –
Constantly ask yourself, “Does this minister love to
the Father?”
2)
When
this commandment becomes priority one in your life and it’s at the forefront of
your thinking you will step over into an area where everything you think,
everything you do, and everything you say is driven and motivated by this
commandment
2.
One
of the main reasons why so many believers just blatantly violate the commandment
of love is because it never crosses their minds
a. If you’re ever going to become
proficient in keeping this commandment then you first of all must get it on the
forefront of your mind
C. The 1st step 2
keeping the COL is 2 set ur mind on it & become conscious of it
1.
Your
thoughts determine the way that you go and if you are never conscious of the
commandment of love, you’ll never go the way of love (Isaiah 55:8-11)
a. Our ways cannot be God’s
ways until our thoughts are God’s thoughts
1)
Because
it’s a higher way, it’s going to lead to a higher destination
b. To do the things of the
spirit you’re first all going to have to set your mind on the things of the
spirit (Romans 8:5)
1)
AMP-For those who are according to the
flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which
gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are
controlled by the desires of the Spirit set
their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy]
Spirit.
c. There is protocol here to
changing actions in my life; there is divine order that says to change you’re
doing you first of all have to change your thinking
1)
If
you want to walk in the love of God you first of all have to have a mindset
that is on the Love of God
2.
You
take the time on purpose to set your mind on the commandment of love the way
you set your alarm clock to wake you up in the morning
a. Develop a consciousness
of the commandment of love: 1) What it is 2) The results that come from keeping
it 3) The results that come from violating it
D. Through meditation &
confession of this commandment you place it at the forefront of your thinking
1.
To
keep this commandment of love you are going to have to keep your mind set on it
day and night (Joshua 1:8)
a. You meditate the Word day
and night and it sets your thinking and then your thinking determines your
actions
1)
Meditate
– utter a sound, the act of thoughtful deliberation with the implication
of speaking to oneself, to speak, to imagine, to talk
b. If I will, on purpose,
give my mind to this commandment day & night then I’ll do it
1)
This
is how you’re going to do my word Joshua; you’re going to meditate on it day
and night and get your mind set on it and then your thoughts will determine
your ways
c. You make your way
prosperous by making your thinking prosperous, you make your thinking
prosperous by meditating the prosperous Word, and when your way is prosperous
that will lead you to the destination called success
2.
James
1:24 – The person who continues in looking at and meditating on the commandment
of love will be the doer of it
E. This commandment of love
is unnatural to human nature and to the flesh; consequently to do it in our
lives there must be a renewal of your mind (Romans 12:1-3)
1.
The
commandment is so far away from what’s natural that to walk in it proficiently
you’re going to have to renew your mind to it
a. The commandment of love
goes totally opposite of what’s natural to do
2.
You
can’t transform into this specimen of love without first of renewing your mind
to the commandment of love
a. Transformation in life,
starts with transformation in thinking
b. Transformation is
dependent upon the words that you allow 2 dictate ur thinking
3.
The
process of renewing your mind goes like this; you say something different to
think something different until you don’t have to say something different to
think something different any more
III. It is vitally important that your mind be set on this
commandment
A. The costs of you not
walking the way of love
1.
You cannot be in disagreement with Love and be in agreement with
Word
a. If love is
not working in your life then nothing in this Word works (Matthew 22:40)
b. 1 step in
opposition to the love of God is 1 step into the word not working for you
2.
When you violate this commandment of love you are into fear and
accessible for the enemy to oppress you (1 John 4:18, Isaiah 54:14)
a. One step out
of love is one step into fear and one step into fear is all Satan needs to
cause havoc in your life
3.
It’s vital that you develop a mindset on the love of God because
if your mind isn’t set on love you won’t do love and if you won’t do this
commandment of love the word won’t work for you and you’ll be oppressed by the
devil
a. Not being conscious of
this COL is the most expensive thing in the universe
B. You have to begin to
develop a love commandment consciousness where you are conscious of the
commandment of love 24 hours a day 7 days a week (2 Cor 5:14)
1.
If
you don’t develop a love consciousness you are in danger of living a life where
you continually violate the commandment of love and it goes unnoticed,
unrecognized, and unrepented of
a. When you violate that
commandment and do not repent of it, then the Word isn’t working in your life
and you’re over into fear and accessible to be oppressed
1)
The
Word can’t work for you if the thing that makes the Word work isn’t working
b. You got believers out
there who are constantly violating the commandment of love & their hearts &
minds have become so hard to it that they don’t even realize that they are
violating it. Then they get little
to no results, they pray and don’t see the manifestation, they
sow and don’t see a harvest.
2.
The
Gift of Repentance (1 John 1:9)
a. When this commandment of
love is on your mind and you violate it, you’ll immediately catch it, repent on
the spot, and now you’re living on the love line where the Word is working for
you, faith is working for you, the anointing is working for you, and you’re
seeing manifestations of the Word of God like you’ve never seen before because
for the first time love is working proficiently in your life.
1)
You
practice repenting on the spot and reverse the curse you spoke and speak the
blessing over those people and now you’re living on the love line where the
Word works praise God
b. Keeping the commandment
love will bring manifestations of the Word (Jn 14:21)
IV. You’re going to develop a mindset that’s working to keep u in
the commandment of love
A. Developing a love
consciousness (Deuteronomy 11:13-21)
1.
Lay
up these words in your heart and in your soul
a. Mark you heart and mark
your mind with this commandment
b. Put this commandment in
your heart and on your mind
1)
You
do that by looking at it, hearing it, and saying it
2)
You
flood yourself with this commandment to the point that it comes out in
everything you think, everything you do, and say; Mk 10-It came out of his eyes
2.
Write
it on your hand as a sign and Stamp them on your forehead
a. Put cards and reminders
all over the place
3.
Teach
them to your children
a. This is what you teach
you’re children
4.
Speak
of it when you sit down, speak of it when you’re in your car, speak of it
before you lie down, and speak of it when you first rise up
a. Last thing out of my
mouth at night & first thing out of my mouth in the morning
5.
Write
them upon your door posts of your house and upon your gates
B. The reminding ministry of
the Holy Spirit (John 14:26)
1.
One
part of Holy Spirit’s ministry is to bring to your remembrance what Jesus spoke
a. You have to receive that
part of his ministry by faith
b. Set a working a agreement
with him
2.
Jesus
said Matt 22:37-40 so the Holy Spirit’s job is to bring that to my remembrance
C. You set that boundary of
love in your mind first and it will be set in your life (2 Cor 5:14)
1.
Constrains
(synecho) – to cover, to crowd against, to guard, to hold in custody, to
compel, to urge on, held, keep in, stops, throngs
2.
My
mindset on love constrains me
a. If I don’t think outside
of love, I won’t go outside of love
V. Root yourself in love by setting your mind to it and keeping
it set
A. Everything that we do we
do in love (1 Corinthians 16:14)
1.
(AMP) Let everything you do be done in
love
a. For everything that we do
to be in love, then everything we think must be in love
2.
Philippians 2:3 – Do nothing outside of love
a. To do nothing
outside of love, we must first of all think nothing outside of love
B. You got to root yourself,
ground yourself, and take your stance in the Love of God and absolutely refuse
to come out (Ephesians 3:14)
1.
We
got to root and ground our thinking in love