Beloved, Love One Another
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Scripture Reading
Scripture Reading
We love Him because He first loved us.
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
Intro
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Beloved
Beloved
Assurance of salvation through love, truth, and identifying false teachers.
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.
If We Say We Have No Sin
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
He Who Commits
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Through God’s Love We Become Beloved By God
Through God’s Love We Become Beloved By God
We love Him because He first loved us.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Propitiation
appeasement wrath and gaining the goodwill of an offended person. Sacrifices for appeasing an angered god.
God gave us what appeased Him to reconcile us back to Him.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Through God’s Love We Love Not Only In Word
Through God’s Love We Love Not Only In Word
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
7 If Someone Says Statements
7 If Someone Says Statements
If someone says pertains to identifying a liar. Someone who says one thing and does another.
1st If We Say
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
2nd If We Say
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
3rd If We Say
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Sin Does Not Dominate Our Lives
Sin Does Not Dominate Our Lives
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
4th If We Say
He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5th If We Say
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
6th If We Say
He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.
7th If We Say
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Let Us Not Lie To One Another
Let Us Not Lie To One Another
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
True believers love the way God does with sacrificial and selfless love.
True believers love the way God does with sacrificial and selfless love.
When we love like God does We Are Rather Than Pretenders
Problem is People We Have Become Too Busy Doing and Pretending than Being and Doing
Problem is People We Have Become Too Busy Doing and Pretending than Being and Doing
We Are Too Busy Pretending And Doing Things Show We Are The Church Rather Than Being The Church And Simply Doing The Things God Has Told Us To Do
We Are Too Busy Pretending And Doing Things Show We Are The Church Rather Than Being The Church And Simply Doing The Things God Has Told Us To Do
Pretenders tell people one thing but do something totally different.
We sometimes tell people we love members while at the same time undermining that member.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
We say we love God and do not obey Him
We do things because we say we love God but the reality we love ourselves
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.
And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?
While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.
And the young men arose and wrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.
Now it was about three hours later when his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.
And Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much?”
She said, “Yes, for so much.”
Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
We Must Love One Another Because We Love God
We Must Love One Another Because We Love God
And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Conclusion
Conclusion