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Love One Another

Sunday, June 5, 2011
Led by Eric Gintert
  • Romans 13:8-10 love one another
  • Matthew 22:35-40  -  1st commandment: Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind. 2nd commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. These sum up the whole law and all the prophets.
  • Exodus 20:3-17  -  The Ten Commandments, a.k.a. the law. Commandments 1-4 are the same as "Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind" and commandments 5-10 are the same as "Love your neighbor as yourself".
  • Matthew 7:12  -  do to others as you would have them do to you; this sums up the law and the prophets
  • Galatians 5:13-16  -  By love, serve one another; you might have to tell one anther some hard things but make sure that it's out of love and not to bite and devour one another, being consumed of each other.
  • John 5:12  -  love one another as Jesus has loved you
  • 1 John 4:20-21  -  you can't love God and hate your brother; how can you not love someone who you can see but love the One you cannot see
  •  Luke 6:27-38  -  Love your enemies and them that use you; it's nothing special to love those that love you; give to your enemies expecting nothing in return; judging is the way you treat a person based on what you know about them... it's passing sentence on them like a judge in a courtroom.
Examples
  • Luke 10:25-37  -  The Good Samaritan - the "religious" people judged the Samaritan based on his out ward appearance but the Samaritan loved his neighbor by helping the wounded man
  • Matthew 18:23-35  -  The King and his Servant - an example of forgiving your brother his trespasses knowing that we are all guilty. Did the king love the servant? How? Which time? Did the servant love the king? With his heart or with his lips? Did the servant love others?
  • Luke 15:11-32  -  The Prodigal Son - Did the father love both sons? Did the one brother love the other brother who had gone astray?
Applications
  • What is one of the greatest ways God shows (displays) His love towards us? Forgiveness (read Ephesisans 4:32) See Acts 5:31, Acts 13:38, Acts 26:18, Ephesisans 1:7, Colossians 1:14, 1 John 1:9, Luke 11:4, Matthew 2:12, 14
  • How many times did Jesus teach us to forgive each other? See Matthew 18:21-22
  • Remember our own sins first and then consider how to treat others knowing Jesus paid the price/suffered for our sins and the sins of others
Prayer Requests
Kierra and Ethan Gintert  -  salvation
Jordyn Gourley  -  4 year old with brain cancer
Aaron Coleman  -  job opportunity?
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