Listen "Closer – How to Get Closer to Jesus"
Episode Synopsis
Best Year Spiritually
Daddy-Handsome Ella-cation™
“We are as close to God as we choose to be.” - Oswald Sanders
How close are you to Jesus?
How close do you want to be?
John 15:12-13 // My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
How Close Can We Come to Jesus?
Know or Know About
Jesus’ Circles of Relationship:
The Crowds – the place of “watching & listening” from a distance
The 5000 – the place of “feeding & healing”
The 70 – the place of “working & serving”
The 12 – the place of “leaving all & following”
The 3 – the place of “joys & sufferings”
The One – the place of “sacrificial love.”
Matthew 16:24 // Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
The closer call is a call to intimacy
The closer call is a call to surrender
The closer call is a call to loyalty
How Far Have You Followed Him?
John 15:14-15 // You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
How close can you come to Jesus?
How close do you want to come?
James 4:8 // Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Jeremiah 29:13 // “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”