Command of Christ #3
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What is something you are really interested in and that you could talk about a lot? You could teach us something about it?
Sparkle: Matthew 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Break into Groups
Who do you love the most? Why?
What does love look like in the eyes of the world?
What should love look like?
How do we show our love for God?
What does it look like to love others?
What’s the craziest way someone has shown their love before for someone else?
What is the difference between romantic love and the love you have for God?
As Christ did before us, we show our love for God by keeping his commandments.
Do you feel like you are a loving person?
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Love is a distinguishing mark of a believer.
Love is a distinguishing mark of a believer.
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
We know love because Christ loved us first.
We know love because Christ loved us first.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God is Love.
God is Love.
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
We are called to Love God with all we have, and to Love our Neighbor as ourselves.
We are called to Love God with all we have, and to Love our Neighbor as ourselves.
What does loving God that way mean?
Discuss what it means to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and what it means to love your neighbor as yourself.
Tell me some stories of people loving their neighbor. Stephen, Peter and John, People lowering friend down to Jesus, Moses leaving his people.
What are some ways you can love others?
Takeaway:
What are some ways that you can demonstrate your love for God?
What are some ways that you can demonstrate your love for others?
What are some ways that you can demonstrate your love for your enemies? For the poor?
