Commanded to Love
Love is the Standard • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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· 1 viewLove is a command that we must make a choice to follow
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We are alive to represent God in the world
We are alive to represent God in the world
Love is an expectation from God
Love is an expectation from God
Our love must be felt by others
Our love must be felt by others
34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.
Love is a decision in response to God’s command
Love is a decision in response to God’s command
Biblical love is the decision to compassionately, righteously, responsibly and sacrificially meet the need of someone else
Biblical love is the decision to compassionately, righteously, responsibly and sacrificially meet the need of someone else
16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
17 If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him?
18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.
Love is not what we say, it’s what we do
Love is not what we say, it’s what we do
34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Love is the STANDARD
Love is the STANDARD