Let All Be Done In Love
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
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Love Our God
Love Our God
The Greatest Command.
The Greatest Command.
Matthew 22:36–38 (ESV)
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.”
2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.
Isaiah 29:13 (ESV)
13 And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Summary
Summary
Loving God is not an emotion but an action but that action can only be loving toward God if it comes from the heart.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Everything we do for God should be done because we love him with our all.
If God demands such love for him it makes sense he demands we…
Love Our Brethren
Love Our Brethren
Can’t Love God Without Loving His Children.
Can’t Love God Without Loving His Children.
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. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Summary
Summary
If we do not love the very one’s that have also given their life over to their Savior like us how can we love our God who gave his life for them?
As we just read loving our brethren as God loves us is an action in how we consider our brethren and this can be determined by whether or not we would be willing to die for them.
Last, an honestly often the hardest aspect of making sure we do everything in love is that we…
Love Our Enemies
Love Our Enemies
Acting Like Our Father.
Acting Like Our Father.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Before Jesus said these words he laid down two principles…
Do not resist an evil person and respond to evil by doing good (Matthew 5:39-42).
It is tempting to respond to evil with evil, especially when they are mistreating us.
So how do we “actively love our enemies?”
We respond to their evil by doing good so as to show good conduct to them.
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
We bless them instead of cursing them.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
We don’t seek vengeance, but the salvation of their soul.
Why, because this demonstrates to them and all those that might see it we belong to God who is love not Satan who is hate.
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Summary
Summary
It isn’t easy loving our enemies, but God never asks us to take the path of least resistance rather to take the path of greatest impact for righteousness.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Making sure that we do all things in love requires us to first love our God, then love our brethren and our enemies.
14 Let all that you do be done in love.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
