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Do you watch any of the doctor shows?
You know the ones that take place in hospitals or follow a group of first responders around?
In inevitably, at some point, someone will stop breathing and their heart will stop.
When that happens, they rush in to revive the patient.
If it happens in a hospital, someone calls a code blue and everyone comes running.
Someone brings a crash cart and all kinds of medical equipment and nurses and doctors work side by side to revive the patient.
Their first priority is to get the heart beating again.
Without the heart, the body will die.
I read this statement about code blue in the hospital:
“Every minute is important as the chance of revival decreases with time.”
I can’t help be see the parallel to the church and revival in the church.
Every minute is important.
The heart must be restarted.
The heart of the Gospel is found in one word: Love.
Show me a church that loves and you will see a church that is alive.
Love is not the only metric for a church that is alive, but it may be the most visible and arguably the most important.
We’ve been looking each week at a list of characteristics that are present during revival.
This list came from Jonathan Edwards who was a preacher during the First Great Awakening.
He wrote it to encourage his parishioners and those who lived during that time to differentiate between a genuine move of God and something that is just a counterfeit.
Here his list of true signs of God led Revival.
When esteem for the true Jesus is raised
When Satan’s kingdom is attacked (sin and worldly lusts)
When people come to love Scripture more
When men are led away from falsehood to truth (sound doctrine)
When there is an increase of love to God and man
Our passage today from 1 John will encourage us to love one another just as Jesus did.
We’ll first get examples of how not to love and what that really is…murder…then we’ll get examples of what love looks like and how to do it.
Before we read our passage for today, I want to read our passage for last week that dealt with sin.
Let’s read starting with verse 4 of chapter 3:
That passage ends with the encouragement to love your brother and sister by means telling us who we are if we choose not to love our brother and sister.
This is the transition for what we will talk about in the next few verses.
Verse 11 says this:
This cannot be said enough.
I was having a conversation with someone this week where we were talking about how bad people are treating other people these days.
If you don’t like what someone believes, what they’ve said, what they’ve done, just go to your friends and voice your displeasure and don’t stop until you find others who agree with you.
Once you’ve found those who agree, you get organized and you do whatever you can to get them cancelled.
You get them fired, you discredit them, you stretch the truth a bit and throw in some buzz words that get all kinds of people upset.
Call them a racist…call them a bully…call them any number of other buzz words and remove any influence they have.
Destroy any sense of credibility they have.
You may be thinking I’m talking about the world, but this is happening in churches.
Christians are using these tactics just as much and maybe even more.
Christians are not just cancelling non-Christians, we are cancelling each other.
It’s awful.
Rather than trying to work through things like Matthew 18 says -
This probably deserves an entire sermon, but let me just say that Jesus still ate and hung out with pagans and tax collectors.
They were not treated as members of the body, but they were still loved by Jesus.
Before I continue reading, I must confess that this was a hard passage to read.
God is still softening my heart in regards to those who are my “enemy.”
Those who would speak ill of me.
Those who would mistreat me.
Those who would go against me just because it’s me.
It doesn’t feel great to be in those situations.
I’ve had to work through some of those feelings fairly recently.
Fortunately I haven’t acted out and lashed out in the midst of those feelings, but God still convicts and challenges me.
And I have to repent.
I have to ask Jesus to help me see others as he sees them.
Look what Jesus said after they hung him on the cross:
This is response we are to have when we are wronged, when we are spoken ill of, when we are mistreated…Father forgive them.
Our response wants to be like James and John…they said this when they were not welcomed into a village:
I know you’ve got some strong feelings and your logic is sound.
They deserve the wrath you want to call down on them, but Jesus would rebuke that response in you.
He rebukes that in me.
We need to repent and seek forgiveness.
Let’s continue reading
Cain was upset by Abel’s right living and killed his brother.
John says don’t be surprised if the world show hatred toward us…this is the pattern of those who are not in Christ.
They will hate those who are living rightly.
Then:
If someone does not love, they are dead.
They are in need of reviving through the blood of Jesus.
We who are alive in Christ have been revived because we love each other.
Then John lays the hammer down:
Hate = murder.
I’ve seen people make comments about the ten commandments…how they are doing too bad…They usually start with “I haven’t murdered anyone...” Um, I beg to differ with you.
I’m a serial murderer according to this verse and my guess is that you are too.
Lord help us to replace hate with love.
Help us to see those who are challenging to us in love.
With the same love you have, Lord.
Such great a love that you were willing to lay down you life for them.
Speaking of that, verse 16 says this:
Jesus is our example of love.
He gave up his life for us.
Philippians 2 gives us a good description of what this means:
This is laying our life down.
We seek to place others, their needs above our own.
Let me say here, this does not give us permission to pull this verse out when we don’t get our way… “You don’t love me because your aren’t putting my interests above your own...”
There is possibly some truth in that, but are you being loving by saying this?
Let’s continue in 1 John...
John gives us something practical to practice our love.
If we see a need that we can meet and we don’t, are we loving?
This doesn’t mean we try to fix each and every person’s situation.
We can’t do that.
We’ve got to do what God calls us to do.
When I see a need, I ask the Holy Spirit to lead me in how He would have me respond.
Sometimes it’s to give into the need, sometimes it’s to connect that need with the appropriate resource like Connecting Hope.
Sometimes it to just pray because God has called someone else to meet that need.
The key piece of all of this is love.
Church, we can’t have revival without love.
There will be no next awakening if there is no love.
Our world doesn’t need us to shake our finger at them in disapproval.
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