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Today’s Scripture: 1 John 3-4
Pages 1022-1023 in our guest Bibles.
“We will recommend that our government
NOT intervene as the risks are too
high and ALL THAT IS HERE
ARE HUMANS.”
Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yaxd. April 18th, 2010
Queens, NY
APATHYap·a·thy
=
a state of indifferencelack of interest or concern
“Meh. I could not care less.”default mode: ME
our default mode should be...
“we” instead “me”
What would it look like if we were DEVOTED
to one another?
“LOVEONE
ANOTHER”
1 John 3-4
For this is the message that you
1 JOHN 3:11
have heard from the beginning, thatwe should LOVE ONE ANOTHER...
Beloved, let us LOVE ONE
1 JOHN 4:7-8
ANOTHER, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born
who does not love does not knowof God and knows God. Anyone
God, because GOD IS LOVE....
In this the LOVE of God was made
1 JOHN 4:9
manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so thatwe might live through him....
For God so LOVED the world that he
GAVE his only Son, that whoever
believes in him might not perish but
have eternal life.~ Jesus of NazarethGospel of John, 3:16
In this is love, not that we loved
1 JOHN 4:10
God but that HE LOVED US andsent his Son to be the propitiationfor our sins....
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though
perhaps for a good person one would
dare even to die--but God shows his LOVE
for us in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
~ The Apostle Paul Romans 5:7-8
Beloved, if God so loved us, we
1 JOHN 4:11
also OUGHT to LOVE ONEANOTHER....
~ Jesus of NazarethGospel of John 13:34
A NEW command I give to you, that you love one another...
A NEW command I give to you, that you love one another:
JUST AS I loved you, YOU ALSO are to love one another.
~ Jesus of NazarethGospel of John 13:34
We LOVE one another this way because
He first LOVED us this way.
[ REAL LOVE is COSTLY ]
1Stir your
LONGINGS
for things to be
DIFFERENT
Image: Andreas Levers
Now concerning brotherly LOVE, you have no need of anyone to write you for you yourselves have been taught by God to
LOVE ONE ANOTHER. But we urge you, brothers, to do this MORE and MORE.
The Apostle Paul1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
2Courageously
diagnose the problem
hint:it’s you & me( )
image: Jana Blašková
“Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere
brotherly love, love one another
EARNESTLY from a pure heart.”
The Apostle Peter1 Peter 1:22
“...EARNESTLY...”
image: Jean Pierre Belot
3Plug in
to the
Power Source
image: Juniperimages
God gives you commands you
cannot keep SO THAT
you may know what you ought to ask of him. Augustine (354-430)
4Participatein the Dress Rehearsal
image: Tracy Whiteside
“…the paradise of love, where
everything is filled with love, and EVERYTHING CONSPIRES
to promote and kindle it, and keep up its flame, and nothing ever interrupts it….”
Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)
“Heaven: A Worldof Love”
5Leave your mark
on the world--this week!
image: Thomas Guignard
By this we know LOVE, that he laid down his life for
us, and we OUGHT to lay
down our lives for our brothers.
The Apostle John1 John 3:16
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, IF you have love for one another.
Jesus of NazarethThe Gospel of John, 13:35
Thomas Guignard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19614198@N00/3159378171/
Andreas Levers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67499195@N00/2071538655/
flickr images courtesy of:
other:
Photos.com: Juniperimages / 87786020
photos.com: Jana Blašková / 153806355
Photos.com: Tracy Whiteside / 89143282
Jean Pierre Belot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36778241@N06/4418828535/