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Claim - Children of God will love for each other in practically ways, as a sign of their abiding in God, because Jesus laid down his life for them.
Focus - Christian love is inevitable, practical and to be pursued, all because of, and by looking to, Jesus’ death for us.
Function - To cause great appreciation for Jesus’ death for us, such that Jesus followers cannot help but love each other practically.
What a great passage to look at as we begin a new journey at Grace Church, as we launch our new service.
It may be true that we will now, for a little while, be smaller in number as we meet together over 2 services.
But who we are as a family, what we look like in character and how we behave, as Jesus Followers, that has not changed, and in fact, should only improve.
And this second half of chapter 3 of 1 John adds more substance to what the Children of God (Jesus Followers) look like, in contrast to the children of the devil.
And it’s all about love.
It is all achieved through Jesus, who is fully God and became fully man, so that he might be our strategy to achieve fellowship.
And as we move through this book we are being reminded what the measures are for a Jesus Follower - what do Jesus Followers look like, what is it that Jesus has made us.
So as we look at our lives we can say ‘Yes’.
I am assured of my eternal life with Jesus, in fellowship, becasue my life matches John’s descriptions or measures.
So then:
We recognise our sin, our failings before God, so we confess.
Our lives will not be characterised by sin, because we want to please Jesus.
We seek to be obedient, because we trust His judgement and desire his good pleasure more than anything else.
We stand against the world and false teaching that proclaims anything other than Jesus.
And John has already told us that if we are Jesus Followers, we will love each other.
Because Love is the ultimate, overriding summary of the law of God, fulfilled in Jesus through Jesus’ loving obedience to God.
And so, today, we get an unpacking of the command to ‘love one another’.
it’s an important one as actually all John’s measures for a Christian are linked.
After his first exhortation to be obedient, he shows obedience to really be aobedience to the command to love.
And he’s ties disobedicen to sin.
So they are all one in the same.
We’ll look at 4 points from the passage today.
1 - The History of Love and Hate
2 - The Source and Motivation for Love
3 - The Practice of Love
4 - The Joy of Love
1 - The History of Love and Hate
The command to ‘love one another’ is nothing new says John.
We touched on this a couple of weeks ago, it’s the second time John has said this command is not new.
God, has expected His people to love Him, and each other, right from the beginning.
And to make his point, John contrasts the historicity of Love, with the equally old history of Hate.
God, has expected His people to love Him, and each other right from the beginning.
And to make his point, John contrasts the historicity of Love, with the equally old history of Hate.
Cain and Abel the first children of Adam and Eve,
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Sin was indeed crouching at Cain’s door:
You have me, says God.
You know me, just like Able who has shown his love through his generous offering, but your actions reveal your selfish heart, you show that you are rejecting me!
And God wasn’t wrong:
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Able loved God because He knew he already belonged to God.
The passage in Genesis doesn’t even tell us why Cain’s offering was unacceptable.
But Cain’s actions reveal his heart!
The passage in Genesis doesn’t even tell us why Cain’s offering was unacceptable.
But Cain’s actions certainly do!
Cain proved he did not love God because he did not love God’s people.
It’s tradgic.
The History of Love, is found in continuing in the Love of God - Just like Able.
Able didn’t invent love, he already had it from God and He simply continued in it.
The History of hate, is found in the rejection of God’s Love.
Turn off a light, reject it, and you are left with darkness.
And so it is with God’s love.
Refject it, and you are left with Hate.
Cain killed able.
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The world hates God’s people, because they have rejected God’s love.
One is to love Him and His people back, as Able did.
To know he is your only hope for life, to know he’s your only hope of forgiveness for the times you have turned your back.
To know that he is a lavishly loving God.
To know he is your only hope for life.
To know that he is a lavishly loving God.
The other is hatred towards God and His people.
We shouldn’t be surprised as Britain rejects true Jesus Followers more and more.
The exclusivity of God’s claims are not very PC.
We believe those who deny Jesus:
face a terrible destiny,
they are freely choosing to reject God,
and their spiritual Father is the devil.
But the truth of the Gospel is divisive.
To realise how much God loves us, we must first realise how much we have rejected Him, and how much wrath he is willing to save us from.
And what is left is...
And people, like Cain, don’t like to be told they are bad people.
And if the world doesn’t hate us, then perhaps it’s because we haven’t told them the whole truth about what we believe!
Back in the church now John gives us
You don’t even have to physically murder to be a murder says John!
This is shocking!
If you hate other children of God, well it’s as good as being a murderer.
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This love one another is serious.
Hate is a string word.
So please don’t panic if you have bad feelings towards or find some fellow Jesus Followers to be be hard work.
We will define hate and love in point 3, the practice of Love.
SO, the history of love, is in God, and in accepting His love.
The history of love, is in God, and in continuing in His love.
The history of Hate is found in the rejection of God’s love and therefore the hatred of those that do love God.
That is our history lesson done.
We have learnt that God is love.
But how does that really practically help us to do what John is demanding of true Jesus followers?
To love each other?
Well he tells us, and it is quite incredible.
2 - The Source and Motivation for our love
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1 This is how we know what love is:
Command and a reality.
- How does that work?
This is how we know what love is!?
John doesn’t usually ask rhetorical questions, this must be major!
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