Paint the Town Red

Paint the Town Red

Sub title:     Paint My Love!

1John3:16

In relation to what Ptr.  Jsalem shared last Friday. Painting the town Red means spreading the blood of Jesus who saves lives. Ptr. Jsalem explained in Exodus12 that if a house is covered with blood the angel would just passed away that house and will not do any harm. Meaning Salvation is in their lives already, regardless of who the person was before . Now with these truth we ought to paint the town red for the salvation of many lives that are not yet in God’s kingdom. Now the door represents God’s kingdom. If the blood of Christ is not in door of your life you’re not in God’s kingdom, you are in the door of the enemy. As Disciples it's are greatest privilege to Paint the town Red!

Paint my love.. I guess most of us remember Michael learns to Rock? It’s a song where a man describes how a woman paints his love. But how do we really paint someones love for us? like our parents, friends and others. Paint means to shade, tint, fill-in or how do we supposed to response on someone's love.

Let's talk about Jesus who is the ultimate and perfect example of how to response to love, love for His Father

How did Jesus paint his love?

Jesus paints His love with Passion

>When comes to passion it lead Him to do far more He can imagine , that is something God imagine for Him. Because God’s imagination is far more higher than ours and when we get to the point of having Christ’s passion it will lead us to unimaginable things. It will lead us to work in an unimaginable ways. That’s how he painted his love for us with great passion. 

Jesus paints His love with Compassion 

>When it comes to compassion Christ did not just pity us because we are sinner but he found away to execute or work his compassion for us, he worked His compassion for us, feed thousand, teaching them us to live right, how to be a good citizens

Jesus paints His love with Humility

>when it comes to humility, though He is the son of God , He gave that title up for greater purpose. He has everything but He did not use that so not to fulfil His calling or deny his purpose or do it in His convenient way. Jesus paint His love for us with all humility, so that we can be free.

Jesus paints His love with Obedience

>in obedience, love is not something we know bahala masuko si papa or si mama love nako ni sya akong sundun akong gibati. Bahalag masuko silang tanan. Christ is the opposite examples of what we are today. Iya bahala masuko ang tanan masunod lang nako si God, because i know para ghapon ni sa tanan dili lng para sa akong kaayuhan. He painted His love with obedience.

All of these traits it lead me to realization that Jesus painted his love with this two radical things

His love for us

1.) Led in denying himself.  Mark 14:36, Matt. 26:42

> Abba Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not my will, but what you will.

-Jesus is Jesus , he is the son of God but he denied himself take up His cross because He love us..

Even the devil confesses his greatness Matt.4.

2.) Led Him to death.  Luke 23:46

Father into your hands I commit my spirit

-          Literally He gave his life for us. First was his will and then physically.

-          Now love should speak in this way. In will and it must lead to action which can be seen by physical eyes.

JESUS’ love was painted in words and in actions. His love was shown on the Cross.

Now this is very essential, very important, very basic for us to know before we could  Paint the Town Red, so that we can do it with conviction, with a believing heart, tagos sa bones ika nga.We should be the first that is convicted of what Jesus did on the Cross, and we should be the first to have this understanding that we are worth dying for, we are someone worth dying for so that we can tell the whole world with all passion that Christ did it for us.

And how do we paint His love? Paint my love! is Jesus saying give meaning life to what I have done.Is our love for God leads us to deny ourselves? Is our love for Christ leading us to death? Not physical death though, but to one’s own selfish will, wants, desire, purpose, dreams and ambitions.  Jesus is like telling us paint my love, bigyang buhay, bigyan kulay, bigyan ng kahulugan. Is our ACTION giving life, color or meaning to what he has done on the Cross?. Are we painting His love like what he did? I am speaking to myself also, these message is for us all, There are no other way that we could paint His love other than doing what he has done for us to others, by painting the town with salvation and what he did on the cross. Share God’words and his love. Care for people, love his people. It is not difficult to love God, but it's difficult and so hard to love the people of God, this will really show how much we love God if we can love his people even if they are unlovable. We can do these if we have the  revelation of his love for us. But Jesus demonstrated his love to us like that, and he is telling paint my love by painting that town with the kind of love I am showing you to other people! By doing it you are loving me much --> Jesus

How will we paint His love? 1John3:16

For those who are in Christ do what he did, for those who are not yet in Christ accept what he did! Then all together we will paint the town Red.

by: Ptr. Marie Rotess