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Introduction
review the last 4 weeks
preaching of the word
right administration of the ordinances
godly leadership
covenant membership
Today I want to talk more about a section from the covenant.
we are to walk together in Christian love
God’s love revealed
God is love
In
&16 we see that God is love.
Love lies at the core of God's being, in fact v.7 says that love comes from God. God is the fountain, the source, the spring from which all true love flows.
we see that God is love.
Love lies at the core of God's being, in fact v.7 says that love comes from God.
God is the fountain, the source, the spring from which all true love flows.
God is the fountain, the source, the spring from which all true love flows.
When we think about this we may think about the human kind of love.
But God's love is higher, it is greater.
God's love is a perfect love and it is a holy love which delights in righteousness and justice
God’s love is revealed through Jesus Christ our Lord
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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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.
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Discuss the love of God seen in the cross.
Christ laid down His life for the likes of us, those of us who were His enemies and rebels against His rule.
Do you see why your love is nothing impressive, it is nothing to boast in.
There is enough sin in our love to send us to an eternal hell.
But the good news, the gospel is
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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The love of God for His church is a redeeming love.
Though we were God's enemies, rebels against His rule God loved us and sent His son to set us free from our sin and our selfish lovelessness.
Jesus commands His Church to love another
Jesus commands His disciples to love one another
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From the beginning, Jesus commands His disciples to love one another
Love one another...that is the one of the main themes of John's letter.
It is woven through the text in several places
Basic ethical message of Christianity
and we see it again at the end
21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
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Brothers and sisters we are to be marked by a love for one another.
the "one another" in these verses refer to Christians
While Christians are called to love everyone there is a special priority and quality of love for other Christians.
While Christians are called to love everyone there is a special priority and quality of love for other Christians.
Why should we love?
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers.
Whoever does not love abides in death.
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He is saying that the badge or the proof that we have eternal life is that love for other Christians naturally flows from our hearts.
Love for fellow Christians is evidence that life has already come.
He goes on to say that when one does not have this love then there is no eternal life in that person read on to v. 15
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers.
Whoever does not love abides in death.
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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Why should we love?
Our love demonstrates the reality of our faith.
A negative answer for 'why love?'
First of all if we do not love fellow Christians we are not saved- we are not Christians according to the Bible.
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
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John picks up Jesus' teaching in 1 John and applies it to our relationships in the church.
Chapters 3 and 4 concentrate on our call to love one another.
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.
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It is clear that we do not love God if we do not love each other and if we do not love God then we are not Christians.
In fact in we are told that if we do not love then we are nothing and we gain nothing.
The church in Corinth was divided in cliques and factions.
Some people thought they were great because they had particualr spiritual gifts.
Others were made to feel low and small.
In the middle of his discourse on spiritual gifts Paul pens this famous chapter on love.
Again look at vv. 1-3
It doesn't matter how spiritually gifted we are, it doesn't even matter how radical our devotional sacrifices are.
If we do not have love we are empty, we are nothing.
If we do not have love then we are not Christians-worse than that, we are nothing.
Brothers and sisters love for one another give evidence of the reality of our faith.
Love is the result of genuine belief in the gospel.
That is why we are called to pursue love.
If we believe the gospel love flows from such faith.
To state it positively, Love is the result of genuine belief in the gospel.
That is why we are called to pursue love.
If we believe the gospel love flows from such faith.
The best way to live
18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you
21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, ( ESV)
v.18 Peter refers to the Jewish religious practice as futile, as empty.
We are reminded that religiosity doesn't win us favor with God.
If God's people, Israel, had a futile way of life because of their dull obedience to the Law, then how much more would that be the case for those of us outside the covenant of Israel.
Peter reminds them that they are not redeemed with silver or gold or an empty religious life, but with the precious blood of Christ.
read vv.19-22 of 1 Peter again
Peter moves directly from the cross and faith in Christ to a purified life to the imperative to love deeply from the heart.
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