Rio Vista Church Sermons · Rio Vista Church • Fort Lauderdale, FL

Love Like Jesus | Week 2

November 20, 2025·30 min·3 clips

A pastor explains why loving like Jesus starts with being loved by him, not just scheduling community events.

It opens with assembly frustration. A joke about a bike and Target assembly becomes the way into a church-wide call to love people nearby with more than scheduled activity. Strikeforce gets a warm mention, and Love Like Jesus is framed as something shared across South Florida. Still, the sermon does not stay on public events for long. It moves straight into the heart. Okay, so what blocks love? The host gives the plain answer: selfishness. A person shows up, and the mind starts doing math. How much time will this take? What will it cost? How awkward will it get? The sermon names that instinct without making it sound nicer than it is: selfishness in church clothes. From there, the message argues that God's selfless love does not just bolt a better habit onto the same old person. It turns a person around. The host describes ordinary human nature as self-promoting and self-centered, always checking how little can be given and how much can be protected. The Home Depot image makes that feel uncomfortably normal. One small encounter can reveal the urge to dodge, hide, or reach for an excuse. Zacchaeus becomes the main picture. The host imagines him turned inward, then met by the Lord and spun the other way. The sermon slows down around his smallness and invites listeners into the story, instead of leaving it as a familiar Sunday school scene. The point is not heroic effort. Selfless love starts pouring into a life, and desire begins to shift. Helping becomes a sweet spot. By the prayer, that change is tied to the cross, repentance, forgiveness, the Holy Spirit, and God's love moving through people like a released river.

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Grace can move self-protection aside and make room for selfless love.

The message frames Love Like Jesus | Week 2 as a call to let God's selfless love reshape how a person wants to live, not just how they plan to serve.

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