Developing Love for Jesus to

be an Effective Evangelist as a
Student and Professional

March 21, 2009
   
   
  A worker in God's Vineyard
 
Many are called...

   
...but few are chosen

   
A seaside interview

   
 John 21:17
He said to him the third time, Simon, son of
John, do you love me? Peter was
grieved because he said to him the third
time, Do you love me?

   
and he said to him, Lord, you know
everything ; you know that I love you.
Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep.

   
  Do you love me?
 
Do you love Me?

YOU

Who are you?

   
Who am I?

   
What is man that thou art
mindful of him?

   
 Woe is me! for I am
undone; because I
am a man of
unclean lips, and
I dwell in the
midst of a people
of unclean lips:
for mine eyes have
seen the King, the
Lord of hosts.
   
Isaiah 64:6

But we are all as an unclean thing, and

all our righteousnesses are as filthy
rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our
iniquities, like the wind, have taken us
away.

   
Do you Love Me?

   
Do You Love Me?

Are you willing to give up everything for

me?

   
Luke 14:33

So therefore, any one of you who

does not renounce all that he has
cannot be my disciple

   
Give up our wealth
If you would be perfect, 
go, sell what you 
possess and give to the 
poor, and you will have 
treasure in heaven

Matthew 19:21ESV

   
Give up your plans

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was

called to go out to a place that he was to
receive as an inheritance. And he went
out, not knowing where he was going.

Hebrews 11:8

   
Give up your Ambitions

By faith Moses, when he was grown up,

refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter, choosing rather to be
mistreated with the people of God than to
enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin

   
Give up your talents

And he also who had the two talents came

forward, saying, Master, you delivered to
me two talents; here I have made two
talents more.

Matthew 25:22

   
Give up your relationships

Whoever loves father or mother more

than me is not worthy of me, and whoever
loves son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me.

Matthew 10:37

   
 He said, Take your 
son, your only son 
Isaac, whom you 
love, and go to the 
land of Moriah, and 
offer him there as a 
burnt offering on 
one of the 
mountains of which 
I shall tell you.
   
Genesis 22:2
Give up your life

For whoever would save his life will lose

it, but whoever loses his life for my sake
will find it.

Matthew 16:25

   
Do you love Me?

Will you take up your 
cross and follow me?

   
This is our Job description

And he said to them all, If any man will

come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and follow me

Luke 9:23

   
How do we do that?

And the King will answer them, Truly, I say

to you, as you did it to one of the least of
these my brothers, you did it to me.

Matthew 25:40

   
I am hungry ... you gave me
food...

   
I am naked... you clothe me...

   
I am homeless... you took me
in..

   
I am sick ... you visited me...

   
I am in prison... you came to
me

   
 ...if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is
a way

   
How do we qualify for God's
work?

The question that Christ had put to

Peter was significant. He mentioned
only one condition of discipleship and
service. "Lovest thou Me?" He said.
This is the essential qualification.

   
How do we love God?

And you shall love the Lord your God with

all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind and with all your
strength.

   
How do we show we love God?

You shall love your neighbor as yourself

   
I love you ...

    Do you love me?