SF218 - Real Love (1 John 2 7-11)

@TITLE = Real Love

@LEVEL ONE = I John 2:7‑11

@LEVEL ONE = Introduction

@LEVEL TWO = What is Love?

@LEVEL THREE = Most misused word in the English language.

@LEVEL THREE = Everyone desires and seeks Real Love.

@LEVEL TWO = Real Faith>>Real Love

@LEVEL ONE = 1A.  REAL LOVE PRESENTED (vs. 7‑8)

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  Emphasis Is On Quality

@LEVEL THREE = "New" = Not new in time, but quality

@LEVEL THREE = Fulfills the law

@SCRIPTURE = Romans 13:10

@SCRIPTURE = "Love does no harm to its neighbor.  Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  Origin Is Salvation

@LEVEL THREE = "from the beginning"

@SCRIPTURE = I John 3:14

@SCRIPTURE = "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers.  Anyone who does not love remains in death."

@SCRIPTURE = John 13:35

@SCRIPTURE = "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  Example Is Christ

@LEVEL THREE = "seen in Him"

@SCRIPTURE = John 13:34

@SCRIPTURE = "A new command I give you:  Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

@LEVEL TWO = 4B.  Extent is Limitless

@SCRIPTURE = John 3:16

@SCRIPTURE = "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

@SCRIPTURE = I John 4:17

@SCRIPTURE = "In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him."

@LEVEL ONE = 2A.  REAL LOVE PROVEN (vs. 9‑11)

@LEVEL THREE = Uses the illustration of light and darkness.

@LEVEL THREE = Love and light go together as do hatred and darkness.

@LEVEL THREE = Our practice of godly love will prove our Christianity.

@LEVEL TWO = 1B.  When Our Talk Matches Our Walk (vs. 9)

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  Hatred is deceptive.

@LEVEL FOUR = You cannot hate others and love God.

@SCRIPTURE = I John 4:20

@SCRIPTURE = "If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar.  For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen."

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Hatred is darkening.

@LEVEL FOUR = Hatred will blind you.

@LEVEL THREE = ILLUSTRATION:  Haman in Esther

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 3

@LEVEL TWO = 2B.  When We Help More Than We Harm (v. 10)

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  No love = no light = harm

@LEVEL FOUR = For ourselves

@LEVEL FOUR = For others

@LEVEL THREE = ILLUSTRATION:  Blind men with a flash light

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Love = light = help

@LEVEL FOUR = The best way to help others is to love them like God.

@LEVEL TWO = 3B.  When We Grow In Grace (vs. 11)

@LEVEL THREE = The opposite of darkness is light.

@LEVEL THREE = Things grow when exposed to the light.

@SCRIPTURE = Galatians 5:22‑23

@SCRIPTURE = "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self‑control.  Against such things there is no law."

@LEVEL THREE = 1C.  Grow in love

@LEVEL THREE = 2C.  Grow in joy

@LEVEL THREE = 3C.  Grow in peace

@LEVEL THREE = 4C.  Grow in patience

@LEVEL ONE = CONCLUSION:

@LEVEL TWO = Until we love completely, we will not grow.

@LEVEL TWO = Love Test:

@LEVEL THREE = 1)  How completely do you love God?

@LEVEL THREE = 2)  How completely do you love yourself?

@LEVEL THREE = 3)  How completely do you love others?