Genuine Love
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READ 1 John 3:11-24.
No Place for Hate
No Place for Hate
v 11-15
contrast of love vs hate
(v 12) drastic: MURDER (surely not me!)
(v 15) hatred is murder
EVIDENCE #1
agape love for the brethren
We are commanded to love-
love your spouse —> brother/sister in Christ —>fellow human —>enemy
the question is not whether you should love someone, but rather will you obey Jesus or say “No, Lord”.
Love Personified
Love Personified
v 16-18
Romans 5:8 “8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 15:13 “13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
1 John 3:18 “18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
“Love is an act of the will, accompanied by emotion, that leads to action on behalf of its object”- Pastor Voddie Baucham
What Pleases God
What Pleases God
23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
