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A Revolutionary Kind of Love
Luke 6:27-36image: Claire Brownlow
God Gives Us His Words of Eternal LifeLuke 6:27-36
Found on page 862 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:
“Norm Peterson”from
“Cheers”
How will we respond
to a dog-eat-dog
world?
A Revolutionary Kind of Love
Luke 6:27-36image: Claire Brownlow
I say to you, Love your enemies,
Luke 6:27-28
do good to those who hate you,bless those who curse you, prayfor those who abuse you....
Greek Lesson for the DayFour Different Words For “LOVE”
Greek Lesson for the DayFour Different Words For “LOVE”
• storge = natural affection
Greek Lesson for the DayFour Different Words For “LOVE”
• storge = natural affection• eros = romantic love
Greek Lesson for the DayFour Different Words For “LOVE”
• storge = natural affection• eros = romantic love• philia = the love of friendship
Greek Lesson for the DayFour Different Words For “LOVE”
• storge = natural affection• eros = romantic love• philia = the love of friendship• agape = unconditional love
= unmerited love
“Such a love is not motivated by the merit of the one who is loved…. It is a deliberate love,
rooted in the will—a love by choice. Agape love
says, ‘I will love this person because, by
God’s grace, I choose to love this person.’”
I say to you, Love your enemies,
Luke 6:27-28
do good to those who hate you,bless those who curse you,pray for those who abuse you.
To one who strikes you on the
Luke 6:27-28
cheek, offer the other also....
To one who strikes you on the
Luke 6:29-30
cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tuniceither. Give to everyone who begsfrom you, and from the one who
...takes away your goods do not
Luke 6:30
demand them back....
If Christians took this absolutely literally there would soon be a class of saintly paupers, owning nothing, and another of prosperous idlers and thieves. It is not this that Jesus is seeking, but a
readiness among his followers to give and give and give. The Christian
should never refrain from giving out of a love for his possessions.
“
”~ Leon Morris, NT Scholar
And as you wish that others would
Luke 6:31
do to you, do so to them.
If you love those who love you, what
Luke 6:32-33
benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.And if you do good to those who dogood to you, what benefit is that toyou? For even sinners do the same.
And if you lend to those from whom
Luke 6:34
you expect to receive, what credit isthat to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount....
But love your enemies, and do
Luke 6:35
good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and
on the good, and sends rain on the just
and on the unjust. ~ Jesus of Nazareth
The Gospel of Matthew, 5:45
Be merciful, even as your Father
Luke 6:36
is merciful.
We are to love like thisbecause our Heavenly Father loves like this.
“There are two particularly astonishing
things about these instructions. First, their
simplicity: they are obvious, clear, direct, and
memorable. Second, their scarcity. How many people do you know who
really live like this?”
Root yourselfin the Gospel
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“You see, at just the right time,
when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly.”
~ The Apostle PaulRomans 5:6
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in
this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
~ The Apostle PaulRomans 5:8
“...when we were God’s enemies,
we were reconciled to him through the death
of his Son.”~ The Apostle Paul
Romans 5:10
Reflect the familylikeness
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I am the vine. Youare the branches...
Apart from me,you can do nothing.
~ Jesus of NazarethThe Gospel of John, 14:5
~ Patrick Greene“Atheist Activist”
“We didn’t expect this kind of treatment from most Christians because most Christians don’t act this way. But because of the fact that Jesus said ‘Love
your neighbor as yourself’… these people are acting like real Christians. Both my wife and
I love them for that, because they are actually putting their actions where their beliefs are.”
A Revolutionary Kind of Love
image: Claire Brownlow
Claire Brownlow: .http://www.flickr.com/photos/22620068@N08/5877237004/
Britt-Marie Sohlstrom: http://www.flickr.com/photos/97449017@N00/297360318/
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Photo: Patrick Greene (pub. in The Christian Post)http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheist-activist-with-failing-
vision-gets-help-from-christians-71997/