9 WAYS TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR LOVE FOR CHRIST by Apostle Emmanuel Makarios.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Apostle Emmanuel Makarios,the Head Pastor of Christ Nation Embassy, Nigeria has given us more teachings on nine ways to demonstrate your love for Christ.
Below are the ways:
1. THINK MUCH ABOUT HIM
These who love Christ will be thinking of Him much. The blessed man’s “delight is in the law of the Lord”(Psalm 1:2). He meditates in it “day and night”. Now the person that loves Him will be thinking much on Him. They will be constantly striving to get much love towards Him. Strive to think of Him much and to get more love to Him.
2. SPEAK MUCH ABOUT HIM
Those who love Christ will speak much about Him. There is much talk about religion and religious matters but little talk of Christ. As a believer, you should not spend your time so much in this. When you are met together do not let not your discourse about controversies crowd out speaking about Christ and love to Him. Do not let the esteem of His worth and excellence go down amongst you.
The man that ever met with Christ, that ever was united with Him, and has any impression of that on His soul, cannot be long in company without high and honourable thoughts of Him. If he lacks Him he will pursue after Him.
3. BRING OTHERS TO HIM
Those that have love to Christ will do what they can to bring others to Him. The spouse who seeks Christ finds Him and says, “I held him and would not let him go” (Song 3:4). And then she says to others to go and behold Him crowned (Song 3:11).
She had met with Christ herself and had much love to Him. She therefore invites her companions to go out after Him.
4. FEAR TO OFFEND HIM
Those who have true love to Christ will be loath to offend Him. Thus, they will abhor all sin. They will love Christ’s commandments above gold and hate every false way (Psalm 119:127-128). These always go hand in hand. Away with the love of that man who says he has love to Christ yet does not hate every false way!
Iniquity abounds, and the love of many grows cold. Those who comply with Christ’s enemies have little or no love to Christ.
5. DO NOT HELP HIS ENEMIES
Those who have complied with Christ’s enemies whether they are godly men or whatever they are, do not have love towards Christ in exercise. Wherever this love is in exercise, people will be loath to offend Christ. They will be afraid that He may stand at a distance from His ordinances. David says that he hates those who hate God (Psalm 139:19-21).
But you may say, “Should we not love our enemies?” True; we should love our enemies, but as they are the stated enemies of Christ, and going on in a state of enmity and defection from Him, they are more than our enemies. They are enemies to Christ, and going on in persecuting God’s cause, enemies to the gospel, and to a covenanted work of reformation. In this view we should hate and abhor them (Psalm 139:19-21). A sad day awaits them. They are worse than those of Laodicea, who were neither cold nor hot, whom for this reason Christ threatens to spew out of his mouth (Revelation 3:16). They have done great hurt to the work of reformation by their compliance.
6. RESPECT ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS
Those that love Christ have a great respect to all His commands. They have a great love and respect to His tabernacles (Psalm 84:1).
7. BE READY TO LOSE ANYTHING FOR HIM
Those who love Christ will always be ready to lose and leave all other things for Him. Christ Himself says, anyone that loves anything “more than me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:37). If you had love to Christ you would think it much to get an opportunity to give Him proof of it. You would even thank God for this opportunity, and say, “Although I should lose all, yet I have got an opportunity of giving a proof of my love to Him in this evil time”.
8. HATE SIN
If you want to have love to Christ, see that you keep your sins ever before you. Those who keep their hearts under the greatest sense of their sins will have much love to Christ. The lack of this is one reason that so many have so little love to Him and so much love to other things. If you had a true sense of sin, wrath and judgment, you would have much love to Christ, and He would be above all in your hearts. You would exalt Him in your souls. It is through faith in Him that we stand and rejoice in trials, as the apostle expresses it (Romans 5:2-3). And the apostle was conscious of this. It is in Christ that we have the hope of the glory of God. We can rejoice in trials knowing that they produce patience. Patience works experience, and experience hope. Hope does not make us ashamed or disappointed because “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts” by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). Be much in the grace of repentance.
9. PRAY MUCH TO HIM
Be much in prayer and much in exercising true love to Christ in an evil time.