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Love thy Neighbor


Sunday, January 20, 2013
Led by Eric Gintert



Mark 12:29-31
  • The first commandment is to love God. Then we are to love our neighbor.
  • We tend to put our neighbor before God.
  • How can we love our neighbor without loving God?
  • Just as in a husband / wife relationship, they are one flesh but sometimes love the children more than each other.
  • You can't truly love someone else before you love God.

What is Love

Love in the natural is an emotional affection toward another person. Love in the spiritual is an action... something you DO.

Romans 13:810
  • Owe no man anything but to love one another.
  • These are not man's commandments, but God's commandments.
  • Love is fulfilling the law and worketh no ill. Therefore, you are loving your neighbor by not condoning something that is against God's law. They may not like what you said or did to them, but it was love because it was fulfilling the law.
2 John 1-7
  • Love is in truth. The Truth is Jesus (John 14:6).
  • Definition of Love: that we walk after His commandments.
  • His commandment is that we love Him with all our heart, mind, and should and them we love one another as ourselves.
  • We must do God's commandments to display love.
1 John 4:7-11
  • We truly can't love one another unless we love God first.
  • It's not about "emotional affection". If it was, then everyone would be going to heaven.
  • It's a spiritual affection for God's word and obedience to His commandments.
  • "Love" is not that we love God, but that He loved us by sending Jesus to be a propitiation for our sins.
  • Since God has so love us, we ought to love one another.
"Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." Proverbs 9:8

Who is My Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37
  • All these commandments and Jesus said if you do them, you'll live.
  • The Parable of the Good Samaritan, the neighbor is the one who loved the man and showed mercy on him.
  • The neighbor is the one who did the will of God and helped the sick man in a godly way!

Prayer Requests

Ethan G.  -  allergic reaction
Lois & Sherry
Bob & Sherry
Larry D.  -  doctors stopping chemo since cancer looks better already
Eric G.  -  job opportunity
Fields family  -  moving to new house
Mallory family  -  building new house
Ed G., Larry D., Lois W., Lois S., Lois, Jerry, Kathy, Doug, Gary, Pete  -  health
Jordyn, Melody, Sara  - little girls with cancer, their families
Vicky, Sherry, & Lois  -  traveling this week 
Jerry  -   health problems 
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