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Intro:
AG: Are You In Love?
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A young man said to his father at breakfast one morning, "Dad, I'm going to get married."
"How do you know you're ready to get married?"
asked the father.
"Are you in love?" "I sure am," said the son.
"How do you know you're in love?" asked the father.
"Last night as I was kissing my girlfriend good-night, her dog bit me and I didn't feel the pain until I got home."
TS: John returns to the theme of love.
Here he expands and give 5 reasons why Christians love.
We love because God is love
We love because God is love
Love is inherent in all God is and all He does.
John urges us to love one another.
This is the main point of this passage
We are to love each other.
As John has discussed love, he has reminded us
it marks us as His disciples
It is a command of Christ and summarizes OT
Love demonstrates we are born of GOd
Love demonstrates we are born of GOd
The absence shows we don’t know God, since God is love.
When we are saved, God enters our lives and begins transforming us into His image.
Love is part of that transformation
Because we receive God’s nature, we reflect His love for others.
God is love, so we love
2. We love to follow the example of God’s sacrificial love
God showed us the ultimate example of love.
Not only did He take on flesh, he came as a propitiation.
Our atonement
He appeased God by paying the price for sin
His love was so great, that he went to the cross with no thought the consequences to Himself.
He put our needs ahead of His own
Christ became our mercy seat.
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As we love we follow God’s example
Sacrificaially put others needs ahead our own
3.
We love because love is the heart of Christian witness.
Love is the way we display God to the world around us
Nobody can see God
He isn’t flesh and blood
Our sin nature means that even if we could physically see Him, it would destroy us as God told Moses.
Yet as they see love, they do see GOD!
MacArthur said:
Love originated in God
Was manifested in His Son
Demonstrated in His people
As we love others, God is full display!
4. We love because love is the Christian's assurance.
1 Jn 4:
Abiding in God, and His Spirit abiding in us is synonymous with abiding in Love and Love abiding in us.
We know and beleive
the love that God has for us
Assurance grows as we experience God’s love in our lives.
As He transforms us, that new capacity to love unconditionally and sacrificially grows and confirms the reality of God’s love for us.
5. We love because love is the Christian’s confidence in judgment.
Love makes us confident in the face of judgment
Love casts out fear
Jesus was God’s son in whom He was pleased
We are also God’s children
We are adopted because of Jesus
We call Him Father and are loved because of Jesus
That is why we have reason to fear.
Again John reminds us, we love becasue He first loved us
Conclusion
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