Passion

By Pastor Warren Richardson

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Jesus showed Himself alive after His Passion. Acts 1:3

Look behind the crisis of the cross and see the passion and purpose of the cross!

Revelation 2:5

Sometimes we do not have much sense but we have passion!

You can push through a lot when you have passion.

Learn to challenge your passion.

Passion - you can have the right passion but the wrong place.

Live Passionately!

1. Misplaced passion is very dangerous

   ○ If you're passionate you take notes in church.

2. Passion is proven when you kneel down in the garden of Gathsemane and say I

   don’t want to do this but if it’s your will; I will do it.

   • You haven’t found your passion until you get past your feelings.

3. Passion won’t leave

   • Ephesus Church - He commends their labor but they have lost their love.

   • Worshippers and Workers!

   • Have you lost your passion?

   • You don’t have to tell somebody to stay where they don’t want to be.

4. What is Passion?

★  Strong Interest

★  Powerful or compelling emotion

★  Emotion

★  Resolve

★  Intense, Driving Love

★  Suffering, Crucifixion, agony

Pathos = Suffer or feel

Passion = His Crucifixion

The cross was not the end, it was the means!Line up your passion with God’s purpose and you become a spiritual giant.

Jesus is touched with the feeling of our infirmities.

The same passion that makes us very good could potentially make us very bad!

Jesus showed Himself alive after His passion!

Come Alive