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! Introduction: 2:7-11
!! /Can you tell the difference?/
Þ I really love cheesecake… I love the way that new song sounds… I love vanilla nut coffee… I love my wife so much!
Þ Words, like coins, can be in circulation for so long that they start wearing out.
/Three Reason why Christians should Love One Another:/
1. God has commanded us to love (1 John 2:7-11)
2. We have been born of God and God’s love lives in us (1 John 3:10-24)
3. God first revealed His love to us (1 John 4:7-21).
“We love. . .
because He first loved us.”
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The Test: The Supreme Commandment—Love (v.7-8)
!! It is An Old Commandment: Already in the Scripture (v.7)
This seems to be a contradiction.
Love itself is not new nor is the commandment that men love God & each other.
1.
Jesus Himself combined the two O.T. commandments to love (Leviticus 19:18; Deut.
6:5) & said (Mark 12:28-34).
2.
“Which you have heard from the beginning” refers to the /beginning of their Christians lives/ – (v.24; 3:11; 2John 6).
a.
This is in our hearts from the beginning of our faith in Jesus Christ.
b.
If this were not so, John could not have written, “We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren (1 John 3:14).
c.
When a sinner trusts Christ, he receives a new life & a new nature, the Holy Spirit comes in him.
3.
God does not have to give a new believer a long lecture about love.
a.
The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
(Romans 5:5)
b.
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; (1 Thessalonians 4:9).
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The new believer now discovers he hates what he used to love, & loves what he used to hate!
What then makes this commandment a new commandment?
!!
It is a New Commandment That is in Christ and in His Disciples (v.8a)
/The Greeks have two different words for “new”/
1.
new in time (recent)
2. new in quality (fresh; new in character)
/a) //because of Jesus “love one another” has taken on a whole new meaning.
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What is so new about love? Jesus Christ!
It is New in Emphasis – Jesus gave love a new meaning.
/Jesus Christ…/
Ø Loved not only friends, but also enemies.
Ø Loved not only good people, but also bad people.
Ø Loved not only the righteous, but also the sinner.
Ø Loved not only the acceptable, but also the rejected.
Ø Loved not only the clean, but the dirty.
Jesus stated this fact in Matthew 5:43-48 cf.
Luke 6:27-36
1.
They misinterpreted the law (v.43).
a.
“Neighbor” meant people of their own community, religion or nation.
1) Who is your neighbor?
Anybody who is in need Luke 10:30-37.
2) Everybody is in need of forgiveness from God, therefore, we must love everybody.
3) In doing this, we will demonstrate God’s love for others to win them to Christ.
b.
They inferred they were to hate their enemies.
This is no where in scripture.
2.
The real meaning of the law to “love” (v.44).
a.
Love your enemies (Luke 6:27-36)
1) This is against human nature.
2) We must demonstrate mercy & compassion
b.
Bless those who curse you.
1) Speak softly to the curser, use kind and friendly words (Proverbs 15:1)
2) Do not render railing for railing (1 Peter 3:8-12).
c.
Do good to those who hated you
1) The greatest proof of love is doing good to those who hate you.
/a) /Romans 12:20
/b) /1 Thessalonians 5:15
d.
Pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you
1) Pray that God would forgive them
/a) //Jesus demonstrated this on the cross (Luke 23:34)… the result was a saved soul (Luke 23:39-43)/
2) For peace between you & that person
3) That persons salvation
Prayer for the persecutor will greatly benefit the believer.
It will keep the believer from becoming bitter, hostile, or reactionary.
e.
That you may be sons of your Father in heaven
1) We must love as God loves
2) If we do not love, then we do not know God, for God is love.
This was a totally new concept to man, for man has always felt free to mistreat other people, especially those who have mistreated them.
3. Jesus Christ says an astounding thing (John 13:34-35):
/The only way people can tell that we are His disciples is by our love for one another.
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Our discipleship and our knowledge of God can be measured by whether or not we love our brothers and sisters in the Lord.
b.
This is exactly what John says in 1 John 2:8: “the new commandment...is true in Him [Christ] and in you [true believers].”
c.
The person who truly follows God has the love of God in him.
d.
The love of God dwells not only in Christ but in the believer also.
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In His life, teachings, & in His death, Jesus is the perfect example.
a.
In Christ we have a new illustration of the old truth that God is love.
b.
What is true in Christ ought to be true in each believer, /“As He is, so are we in this world”/ (1 John 4:17).
Note another fact about the new commandment of Love:
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It is Now Made Known by the True Light that Shines and Erases Darkness (v.8b)
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