How to Love God
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
What is something you love to do?
What was your favorite pet?
Text Questions
How can we love God?
Read Mark 12:29-31
What does it mean to love God with all your heart?
Matthew 15:18-19
What does Jesus teach us about our hearts?
Read Titus 1:5
What do we learn about the pure?
What do we learn about the corrupt?
Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
What does it mean that our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit?
What do we learn about who owns us?
What does it mean that we were bought with a price?
How can we honor God with our bodies?
Read Ezekiel 36:26
What do we learn about our hearts?
What does a heart of flesh mean?
Read Psalms 51:10
What should we ask God for?
Read Philippians 4:8-9
What should we focus on to get a pure heart?
How do we put into practice what we learn?
What do we learn about God from this passage?
Personal Questions
Do you have a hard heart?
Has God given you a new heart?
Do you feel like you have a pure heart?
Do you love God with all your heart?
Have you asked God for a pure heart?
Application
Take inventory on your heart
Ask God for a pure heart
Commit to loving God with all your heart daily
Befriend people who love God
Verses
Mark 12:29-31
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 15:18-19 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Titus 1:5 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Philippians 4:8-9 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
