Love Abides- 1 John 3:11-24

Recap last few weeks

Truth, Children, Sin… Now love

Love is the message we heard from the beginning

Beginning of 1st John, but also Jesus

John 13:34 “34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”

1 Corinthians 13:1–3 “1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”

Why we Love:

If we loved more, people would love us more.... NO

We love because we are loved

Two

Cain Abel

Righteousness or Evil

Hate or Love

Hot or Cold

How do We Love:

Love is doing not just saying

Love is sacrificial

John 15:12–13 “12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

Pastor that gave kidney

How we might love

Material

Matthew 25:35–40 “35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’”

Time

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 “4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

Their ways not our ways

How Can We Love

Our Heart Tells us

This is how you know all of these abidings are true. You can love your brother

Apart from Jesus there is no love

Summary is : Keep his commandments (Greatest is love), Gods Abides, Spirit clears that up for us.