Self-love Lesson 2

Lesson One Recap

Significance

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In order for us to understand the importance of loving God we must understand that he loved us first.

1 John 4:10 ESV

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.

1 John

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Discussion Question: We have significance because.....

God’s love was revealed among us[a] in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Security

Ephesians 1:13 ESV

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Discussion Question: What is the number one thing we must have security in? ______________________

God has met our need for (security-love): “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?... I am persuaded that…(nothing) shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus.” , ); “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners (at our worst, exposed for what we really are, no masks), Christ died for us.” .

He Loved - So I Should Love

Mark 12:30 ESV

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Mark 12

Love: to have a great affection or care for or loyalty towards.

Discussion Question: Why would we have loyalty towards God?

Soul the immaterial part of a person which is the actuating cause of an individual life; the site of all the psychological faculties (such as the heart, mind, and conscience).

\\to love (care) v. — to have a great affection or care for or loyalty towards.

Heart - Mind

Soul

Mind

Discussion Question How do we love with these faculties?

soul the immaterial part of a person which is the actuating cause of an individual life; the site of all the psychological faculties (such as the heart, mind, and conscience).

Strength: possession of the qualities required to do something or get something done; especially the possession of physical qualities.

soul the immaterial part of a person which is the actuating cause of an individual life; the site of all the psychological faculties (such as the heart, mind, and conscience).

possession of the qualities required to do something or get something done; especially the possession of physical qualities.

Discussion Question: How do we love will our strength?