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  LOVE COMES FROM ACTION
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes that love comes from action, and by
serving God with our whole lives, we will learn to love Him with our
whole hearts.

Topics: "Obedience To God", "Loving God"
Scripture References: Matthew 6:21, John 15:10, Colossians 3:23, 1 John 5:3

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DESCRIPTION
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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of keeping God's
commandments to abide in His love, emphasizing that true love for God is
manifested through our actions and obedience to His will. She highlights
the process of learning to love God by directing our thoughts,
intentions, and actions towards Him, trusting that our feelings and
affections will gradually align with our actions. Tileston encourages
believers to serve God faithfully with their whole lives, assuring them
that the ultimate reward is the ability to love God wholeheartedly.

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CONTENT
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If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love.

--JOHN 15:10

THIS did not once so trouble me,

That better I could not love Thee;

But now I feel and know

That only when we love, we find

How far our hearts remain behind

The love they should bestow.

--RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

OUR Lord gives the answer to a difficulty continually perplexing honest
Christians--"How am I to learn to love God? I want to do my duty, but I
do not feel as if I loved God." Our Lord gives the answer, "Where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also." Act for God, do and say the
things that He wills; direct your thoughts and intentions God-ward; and,
depend upon it, in the slow process of nature, all that belongs to you--
your instincts, your intelligence, your affections, your feelings--will
gradually follow along the line of your action. Act for God; you are
already showing love to Him and you will learn to feel it.

--CHARLES GORE

They who, continuing faithful to divine grace, however partially
communicated, serve God with their whole lives, will never fail of that
one reward, the greatest which even He has to bestow, the being made
able to love Him with their whole hearts.

--DORA GREENWELL

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/love-comes-from-action/
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