Giving your Life Away to Find Joy

About this sermon

"When you find someone to die for, the mission becomes irrelevant" "One of the best ways to ruin a perfectly good marriage is just make it your spouse's responsibility to make you happy" "The truth is, until you find someone to die for, you don't really live" "It's a whole lot easier to live just for yourself but the problem with living for yourself is you never really find life until you give it away. Until you give your life away, you really don't ever find it" "How many of you know, you don't come to church, you become the church" Kris talks about how covenant relationships should create an unbreakable bond between two people that can endure the hardest of times and any kind of stress. --- "Covenant means I have come to die for you, I've come to lay down my life for you, I've come to give you myself so that you can benefit; I've come for your sake." "Covenant expresses itself in camaraderie but not all camaraderie is rooted in covenant. Often camaraderie is rooted in a common enemy instead of covenant friendships. But fellowship rooted in warfare is fueled in hatred, not forged in love." true covenant is not rooted in a common struggle, but in mutual love because covenant needs no enemy for it lays down its life for its friend. When a culture of covenant is absent in community, society adopts an 'us and them' mentality because people bonds are rooted in a common foe. In other words there is a need to have an enemy for their friendship is based in who they're against. Covenant destroys the 'us and them' mindset and bonds people through God's love, not mutual agreement." --- Used with permission of Bethel Media. Check out Kris Vallotton's site: http://www.kvministries.com/ The full version of this message can be found at: http://www.ibethel.tv/watch/1867 iBethel.Tv is a production of Bethel Church, http://www.ibethel.org Used with permission of Bethel Media.

Topics

• Joy
• Giving