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If You Love Me...
Keep My Commands
Love One Another
Walk in the Light
Who is John
Disciple / Apostle
Writes to the Church as a loving Father, with tenderness and authority
Combats Gnosticism
What is Gnosticism
False teaching based on the merit of Secret or Higher Knowledge leading to Salvation
Taught that all matter was evil, and our actions do not need to match our knowledge
John refutes Gnostics by saying
what you do does matter, Christians are those who are increasing in righteousness.
how you treat others matters, Christians are known by their love for one another
your whole being matters, Christians are those who proclaim “Jesus is Lord” with every fibre of their being.
If You Love Me … Love One Another
There is a real trend these days to point out all of the problems that exist in Church, and then to stay away because of those problems.
Imagine that you are a doctor at a hospital.
You go into the first patients room and say “This one has a fever, I’m out of here.”
You go into the next room and notice a show on the TV that you don’t like, “This one has poor taste in TV shows, how dare they come here.
I’m leaving”
You go into a third room and there is a person who smiles at you and says “Hi”.
That person is always happy, don’t they know that they have problems, they’re sick, I’m leaving.”
What kind of a doctor would you be, if all you saw was peoples problems and never helped.
What would your reputation be?
What kind of Christian would you be, if you look at the other Christians only to point out flaws.
Jesus says to his disciples
John 13:
By the way, the love that we are speaking of today should not be thought of in a romantic sense.
We are not commanded to all fall in love with one another.
By the way, the love that we are speaking of today should not be thought of in a romantic sense.
We are not commanded to all fall in love with one another.
Agape love is the
Instead, the love that we are commanded to demonstrate is a social and moral kind of love, from the greek word agapaō, Pronounced ag-ap-ah´-o.
agapaō, ag-ap-ah´-o.
We are to act with social and moral love towards one another, as Christ as done for us.
Agapeo is to love in a social or moral sense.
1 John 3:
Today we look at the role of godly love amongst Christians.
Should Christians also show godly love to those who are not in Christ?
Yes, of course.
Like the character of the good samaritan, we must show God’s extreme love and compassion to any “neighbour” that God brings into our lives.
But in 1 John, we are being taught about God’s love for one another.
1 John 4:
God is Love
This is fantastic news!
God is Love.
God’s heart doesn’t want to see his people lost, and hopeless.
God is Love, and so God takes action to show us his love.
Because God is love, there is nothing that he does that is unloving.
He is a good God, and that is good news.
Some people have it in mind that God has it out for them, and it causes them to tremble.
The truth is that God’s goodness and love is far greater than we have the ability to comprehend.
Part of being a Christian is God teaching us more and more about how great His love is.
A huge part of our understanding of God’s love happens as His love flows through us to others.
God’s children love one another as a result of our relationship with God.
To know God is to become godly, he transforms us.
If God is love, then those of us who are called his children must also have a reputation for being loving.
People should have a certain picture come to their mind when they hear the word, Christian.
For example
What comes to mind with the word doctor?
Someone who wants to help others be made well.
When you think of a police officer, you think of someone who helps to keep order in society.
When you think of a teacher, you think of a person who is giving themselves to helping others to learn
When you think of a Christian, you think of someone who loves as God loves.
If we don’t love one another, it shows that we don’t love God.
Remember that John writes, “The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
These are strong words, and I read them as a warning.
I cannot harbour any sort of grudge or vengeance against anyone.
We must love as God loves.
God is love.
We are God’s children, and should represent God.
How can someone not love and be called a child of God?
Lets talk about how this love should look and be seen in our lives.
Words are valuable, and of course you should express your love to others in words.
But if the extent of your love is words, than you will fall very short of knowing and experiencing God’s divine love.
If your love does not consist of both truth and action, then God’s love will not be matured in your life.
When Jesus came to earth, he was fully God and fully man.
This means that Jesus, was a perfect demonstration and example of God’s love.
He is our example of how to love.
Jesus is the example that John to show what God’s revealed love looks like.
God sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins
God sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins
Propitiation is not a word that we often use.
It means “appeasement” or “satisfaction”.
God’s love is more than equal to God’s wrath.
God’s wrath against those who sin is worse than we care to think about.
God’s love is better than we could dream about.
For God sent His Son to earth to satisfy his wrath against us, the ones who are sinners.
Jesus sacrificial death in our place has infinite value.
The reason that Jesus death has this everlasting value is that he is fully God and fully man.
It is different than if you or I sacrificed our life for someone else.
It is God on a cross.
This is love.
This is more than I could ask for, and probably something that I would never ask for.
But even before we were aware of our need, Jesus, fully God and fully man, goes to the cross and dies for me.
He left His Father's throne above, So free, so infinite His grace;
So free, so infinite His grace;Emptied Himself of all but love,And bled for Adam's helpless race;'Tis mercy all, immense and free;For, O my God, it found out me.Amazing love, How can it be, that thou my God would die for me.(Charles
Wesley)
Emptied Himself of all but love,And bled for Adam's helpless race;'
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