Life is for Loving!

Life Is For Loving!
Life is for Living, Laughing and Loving!

Hannukah
~ The Feast of the Dedication
~ The Festival of Lights
~ The Feast of Maccabees

• The Message of the Feast
• John 10:22-39 "The deity of Jesus"
• The History of the Feast prophesied
• Daniel 8:1-27
• The Feast Today
• Dedication - Consecration - Holiness
• The Hebrew root word of Hanukkah is hanak, which means "to make narrow."
• Dedication is similar to the idea of "holy", or kadosh, which means "to set apart, to hallow, or to consecrate."
• Hanukkah speaks of the fulfillment of God's purpose for His Temple.

The Feast of Dedication/Hanukkah

• I Corinthians 6:19-20
• "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.


• Colossians 1:13
• "He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins

Life Is For Loving!
I John 4:7-11
Mark 12:29-31

Sermon In A Sentence
The life of God in His Kingdom is for living, laughing, and loving!

Serving the King and His Kingdom!
John 10:10
Romans 14:17
Luke 12:32
Matthew 7:14

"A merry heart does good, like medicine"
Proverbs 17:22a

Why Laugh?

• The unexpected - The incongruity theory
• Suggests that humor arises when logic and familiarity are replaced by things that don't normally go together.
• The superiority theory
• When we laugh at jokes that focus on someone else's mistakes, stupidity or misfortune.
• The relief theory
• Comic relief "Somebody tell a joke!"

Laughter - The 4 Main Sources

• The unexpected - Incongruity
• The Sense of Superiority
• Comic Relief
• Knowledge or revelation of good! A Eureka experience!!!
• A Christmas Carol
• It's A Wonderful Life

Real Life is Loving!

• Matthew 10:38-39 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
• Since real life is loving and real loving is being alive in Him, then, the God kind of life is found in living for God and others.

Team Hoyt

Real Life is Loving!

• John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
• I John 3:16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly...
Leave the rest to God