DO YOU HAVE IT?
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Week 10 (2nd Sunday) Baptism Sunday
This Week’s Theme: God is Love
Word for the Week is Abiding-remaining, dwelling, staying connected in continual relationship.
Memory verse: John 13:35 “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Sermon Focus: We can only truly know love by knowing God.
Sermon Passage: 1 John 4:7-19
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
I. LOOK AT OUR TRANSFORMATION
I. LOOK AT OUR TRANSFORMATION
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
GOD IS THE SOURCE OF LOVE
EVERYONE WHO LOVES
NOT YOUR KIND OF LOVE
BUT GOD’S LOVE
FOUND IN 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
LOOK AT VERSE 7 AGAIN
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
BORN OF GOD - HINTS BACK TO JOHN 3
AND KNOWS GOD
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
NO LOVE
NO GOD
GOD STATES CLEARLY THAT
WORDS WITHOUT WORKS
IS INSUFFICIENT
COMMUNICATION WITHOUT CHANGE
IS INSUFFICIENT
TALK WITHOUT TRANSFORMATION
IS WORTHLESS
YOU DO NOT KNOW GOD
WHY? GOD IS LOVE
THIS DOES NOT MEAN LOVE DEFINES GOD.
IT MEANS LOVE IS ESSENTIAL TO HIS NATURE.
EVERYTHING GOD DOES FLOWS FROM HIS CHARACTER.
CREATION FLOWED FROM LOVE.
SALVATION FLOWED FROM LOVE.
GRACE FLOWED FROM LOVE.
SO WHEN BELIEVERS LOVE ONE ANOTHER, THEY ARE REFLECTING THE CHARACTER OF THEIR FATHER.
II. LOOK AT OUR TRANSMISSION
II. LOOK AT OUR TRANSMISSION
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
“TO REVEAL,” “TO MAKE VISIBLE,”
OR
TO MAKE SOMETHING PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN KNOWN.
GOD’S LOVE IS SHOWN TOWARD US
GOD SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD
SO THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM
HERE IS WHERE WE SEE WHAT LOVE IS ALL ABOUT
LOOK AT 1 JOHN 4:10
10 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.
NOT IN US LOVING HIM
IT IS NOT HARD TO LOVE
THE ONE WHO PROVIDES
HELP FOR THE HURTING
DEVOTION FOR THE DAMAGED
IT IS NOT HARD TO LOVE
THE ONE WHO PROVIDES
COMPASSION FOR THE CRUSHED
AND
FORGIVENESS FOR THE FLAWED
THE BIBLE SAYS IN PROVERBS 19:4
4 Wealth makes many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend.
IT ALSO STATES IN PROVERBS 19:6
6 Many entreat the favor of the nobility, And every man is a friend to one who gives gifts.
IT IS NOT HARD TO LOVE GOD
LOOK THE VERSE 10 AGAIN
10 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.
THAT HE LOVED US
REAL LOVE IS SEEN
WHEN THE
GOOD LOVES THE GRUESOME
REAL LOVE IS SEEN
WHEN THE
ETHICAL LOVES THE EVIL
WHEN THE
VIRTUOUS LOVES THE VILE
SO MUCH SO THAT
HE SENT HIS SON TO BE
THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS
CHRIST BECAME WHAT GAINED
THE APPEASEMENT OR SATISFACTION
FOR THE OUR SINS
ILLUSTRATION:IMAGINE STANDING IN A VIOLENT STORM WITH HAIL FALLING.
SOMEONE OPENS A STRONG UMBRELLA OVER YOU.
THE HAIL STRIKES THE UMBRELLA INSTEAD OF YOU.
CHRIST STOOD BETWEEN SINNERS AND THE STORM OF GOD’S JUDGMENT.
THE WRATH STRUCK HIM SO IT WOULD NOT STRIKE US. LOOK AT IS 53
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
CHRIST TOOK THE PAIN
HE TOOK THE BLAME
HE TOOK THE SHAME
AS VERSE 19 CLEARLY STATES
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
IF GOD LOVED
THE LAZY AND THE LUDE
IF GOD LOVED
THE CRAFTY AND THE CUNNING
IF GOD LOVED
THE SHIFTY AND THE SHADY
THEN AS SAINTS
GOD IS LOOKING FOR YOU AND I TO
TRANSMIT HIS LOVE
LOOK AT VERSE 11
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
BECAUSE YOU AND I
HAVE BEEN RECIPIENTS TO HIS LOVE
WE ARE CALLED TO LOVE EACH OTHER
JESUS COMMANDED IT IN
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
PAUL LOOKED FOR IT
HE LOOKED FOR TWO IMPORTANT TRAITS.
THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST AND THEIR LOVE FOR THE SAINTS.
PAUL TOLD THREE CHURCHES THAT THEIR FAITH AND LOVE PROMPTED HIM TO PRAY FOR THEM.
THESE TWO TRAITS SEEMED TO BE WHAT PAUL LOOKED FOR
TO DETERMINE WHETHER SOMEONE WAS REALLY A CHRISTIAN.
LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES:
15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
LOOK AT THESE VERSES
3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints;
2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,
WHEN WRITING A LETTER TO PHILEMON ABOUT HIS RUNAWAY SLAVE THAT HAD BEEN SAVED DURING PAUL’S MINISTRY, HE POINTED OUT HIS FAITH AND LOVE. LOOK AT THIS VERSE.
5 hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,
PAUL PRAISED THE SAINTS IN THESSALONICA BECAUSE OF THEIR EVER INCREASING GROWTH OF FAITH AND LOVE. LOOK AT WHAT HE TOLD THEM.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,
JOHN THE BELOVED DISCIPLE ALSO LOOKED FOR THIS IN BELIEVERS.
HE ADDED THAT YOU CANNOT LOVE GOD
AND BELIEVE IN CHRIST WITHOUT LOVING OTHERS
WHO HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN BY CHRIST.
LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE:
1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
FAITH IN THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST IS IMPORTANT
BUT LOVING THOSE WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN CHANGED BY HIS WORK IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT.
WHY?
BECAUSE CHRIST COMMANDED US TO LOVE EACH OTHER
AND THIS SHOWS WE ARE WHO WE SAY WE ARE.
III. LOOK AT OUR TESTIMONY
III. LOOK AT OUR TESTIMONY
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
NO ONE HAS SEEN GOD
BUT THEY SEE YOU AND I
GOD’S LOVE OUGHT TO BE ON DISPLAY IN HIS CHILDREN
LOVING EACH OTHER
SHOWS THAT GOD ABIDES IN US
IF YOU HAVE LOVE FOR YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST
GOD’S LOVE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO COMPLETION IN US
GOD’S LOVE HAS MATURED IN US
GOD’S LOVE HAS REACHED ITS INTENDED GOAL IN US
JOHN ANSWERED THE QUESTION HOW DO WE KNOW?
LOOK AT VERSE 13
13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
WE HAVE HIS SPIRIT, WHO
REMIND YOU
REPROVE YOU
GUIDE YOU
ASSIST YOU
APPEAL TO YOU
TEACH YOU
TESTIFY TO YOU
LOOK WHAT THE SPIRIT IN US CAUSES US TO DO
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
BOLDLY TESTIFY
DO YOU HAVE IT?
DO YOU HAVE IT?
I GOT IT?
CHECK MY TRANSFORMATION
CHECK MY TRANSMISSION
CHECK MY TESTIMONY
• HE IS MY REDEEMER, HE IS MY SAVIOR,
• HE IS MY GUIDE, AND HE IS MY PEACE!
• HE IS MY JOY, HE IS MY COMFORT,
• HE IS MY LORD, AND HE RULES MY LIFE!
• HE WAS HUNGRY YET HE FEED THOUSANDS!
• HE WAS THIRSTY YET HE QUENCHES THIRST!
• HE WAS BRUISED YET HE BRINGS HEALING!
• HE WAS FORSAKEN YET HE IS ALWAYS WITH YOU!
• HE WAS HOMELESS YET HE WENT TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU!
• HE WAS PIERCED YET HE EASES PAIN!
• HE WAS PERSECUTED YET HE GIVES FREEDOM!
• HE WAS DEAD YET HE GIVES LIFE!
• I FOLLOW HIM BECAUSE HE IS:
• THE WISDOM OF THE WISE,
• THE POWER OF THE POWERFUL,
• THE ANCIENT OF DAYS,
• THE RULER OF RULERS,
• THE LEADER OF LEADERS,
• THE OVERSEER OF THE OVERCOMERS, AND
• THE SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THAT WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME.
• I FOLLOW HIM BECAUSE:
• HE WILL NEVER LEAVE ME,
• NEVER FORSAKE ME,
• NEVER MISLEAD ME,
• NEVER FORGET ME,
• NEVER OVERLOOK ME,
• • AND NEVER CANCEL MY APPOINTMENT IN HIS APPOINTMENT BOOK!
DO YOU HAVE IT?
I GOT IT?
CHECK MY TRANSFORMATION
CHECK MY TRANSMISSION
CHECK MY TESTIMONY
