Love and Care for All

I) Introduction

II)DO be of one mind! (V.8)

a. Be at peace with one another

b. When the world watches...

They need to see unity

They should not see...

Arguing

bickering

biting

brawling

grumbling

complaining

Believers need to:

BE LIKE JESUS

(NKJV)

29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

b. Living Holy

(NKJV)

10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

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14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

c. Spiritual characteristics

(NKJV)

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

III)Do be compassionate

Fell it with others

1 Peter–Jude (King James Version) M. Live at Peace with Others, 3:8–9

• one suffers with those who suffer

• one weeps with those who weep

• one rejoices when others are honored

• one understands the pressure that a leader is under when he has to lead

• one hurts with those who are criticized and attacked

• one grieves with the sorrows of others

IV)Do have brotherly love

Love one another as we love our siblings

V)Do be tenderhearted

Sensitive and tenderness toward each other

(NKJV)

27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

VI)Do be humble

To be lowly in mind

ILL. - Not wanting to mop or sweep the gym

(NKJV)

3 and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

4 Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Do Not retaliate

Do not react

Bless, that is, Forgive

You will be rewarded

(NKJV)

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Speak well of those who are evil

PRAY for those who are evil

(NKJV)

20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”