PROVE
IT
If
showing the love of God leads to repentance and promises fulfilled, would not
the opposite (animosity, criticism, disdain,) repel the lost and work towards the
enemies goal of keeping us defeated and unproductive in the things of God?
One of the LAST VITAL TEACHINGS
John
13:33-38 NLT
Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going. 34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going. 34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
1 Peter 4:8 NLT
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each
other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 THE MESSAGE
Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything.
Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything.
THE BASICS ARE REQUIRED
Luke 11:42 NLT42 “What sorrow awaits you Pharisees! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens,[a] but you ignore justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
Luke 11:42 Message
…You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but manage to find loopholes for
getting around basic matters of justice and God’s love. Careful
bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required
Romans 13:8 NLT
[ Love Fulfills God’s Requirements ] Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.
LOVING OTHERS ASSURES OUR OWN HEART TOWARDS GOD!
1 John 3:18 NLT
18 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love
each other; let us show the truth by our actions.
1 John 3:18 MSG
18-20 My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice
real love. This is
the only way we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality.
It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is
something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more
about us than we do ourselves.
1
John 4:16 NLT
16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love - live in God, - and God lives in them.
16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love - live in God, - and God lives in them.
*Ephesians 3:18-19
NLT
18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
20 Now all glory to
God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish
infinitely more than we might ask or think.
Colossians 1:8-10 NLT
8 He has told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.
9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10 Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.
Colossians 1:8-10 NLT
8 He has told us about the love for others that the Holy Spirit has given you.
9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10 Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.
JESUS’S GOAL:
John 17:23 (MSG)
20-23 I’m praying not only for them
but also for those who will believe in me
Because of them and their witness about me.
The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind—
Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you,
So they might be one heart and mind with us.
Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.
The same glory you gave me, I gave them,
So they’ll be as unified and together as we are—
I in them and you in me.
Then they’ll be mature in this oneness,
And give the godless world evidence
That you’ve sent me and loved them
In the same way you’ve loved me.
but also for those who will believe in me
Because of them and their witness about me.
The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind—
Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you,
So they might be one heart and mind with us.
Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me.
The same glory you gave me, I gave them,
So they’ll be as unified and together as we are—
I in them and you in me.
Then they’ll be mature in this oneness,
And give the godless world evidence
That you’ve sent me and loved them
In the same way you’ve loved me.
24-26 Father, I want those you gave
me
To be with me, right where I am,
So they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me,
Having loved me
Long before there ever was a world.
Righteous Father, the world has never known you,
But I have known you, and these disciples know
That you sent me on this mission.
I have made your very being known to them—
Who you are and what you do—
And continue to make it known,
So that your love for me
Might be in them
Exactly as I am in them.
To be with me, right where I am,
So they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me,
Having loved me
Long before there ever was a world.
Righteous Father, the world has never known you,
But I have known you, and these disciples know
That you sent me on this mission.
I have made your very being known to them—
Who you are and what you do—
And continue to make it known,
So that your love for me
Might be in them
Exactly as I am in them.
Hebrews 10:24-25 NLT
24 Let us think of ways to motivate one
another to acts of love and good works. LOVE NEVER LETS GO!
Romans 8: 33-39 NLT35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”[a]) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
MSG: None
of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced
that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow,
high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love
because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. – (never letting go!)
Conclusion:
*Love proves God is real to the world.
*Love enables us to be our brother’s keeper because it covers a multitude of sin.
*Love passes knowledge and understanding.
*The more love we operate in the closer we are to knowing him
and being like him.
*We are commanded to do all things that promote the Love of God because Love IS the goal to unity, end time harvest, and the catalyst to all faith and answers to your prayers.
*Love does not fail.
*Love enables us to be our brother’s keeper because it covers a multitude of sin.
*Love passes knowledge and understanding.
*The more love we operate in the closer we are to knowing him
and being like him.
*We are commanded to do all things that promote the Love of God because Love IS the goal to unity, end time harvest, and the catalyst to all faith and answers to your prayers.
*Love does not fail.
Our example of loving
others is Jesus.
Our ability to love like Jesus loves is in the person of the Holy Spirit
Christians are better at loving the world, then loving
each otherOur ability to love like Jesus loves is in the person of the Holy Spirit
We assumed that loving the lost is the commandment in John 13.
yet at the same time we bite and devour one another which in effect is
Hating the Lost!
John 13:35 says.. Christians, Disciples, Brothers, Sisters:
35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
Prove it!
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