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True Love Romans 12:9-13, 13:8-10. Application of Romans 1-11. Because of the mercies of God... Present your whole self to God Don’t offer yourself to the world Become transformed. What Genuine Love. ...is:. John 15:13
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True Love Romans 12:9-13, 13:8-10
Application of Romans 1-11 Because of the mercies of God... Present your whole self to God Don’t offer yourself to the world Become transformed
What Genuine Love... ...is: John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. • an emotion, feeling • conditional • selfish ...is not:
What Genuine Love... ...is: • an emotion, feeling • conditional • selfish • sacrificial devotion • unconditional • selfless ...is not:
Why Genuine Love Matters John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35)
Why Genuine Love Matters 1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20)
Why Genuine Love Matters 1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20)
1 Corinthians 13:1–3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Why Genuine Love Matters Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Only way to love God (1 John 4:8,20) Makes our lives meaningful (1 Cor 13:1-3)
Why Genuine Love Matters Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20) Life is worthless without it (1 Cor 13:1-3)
How to Genuinely Love • Abhor evil& cling to good (12:9) • Treat others like family (12:10a) • philostorgos– to love as a parent does • philadelphia – brotherly love
How to Genuinely Love Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves Abhor evil& cling to good (12:9) Treat others like family (12:10a) Put others first (12:10b)
How to Genuinely Love • Abhor evil& cling to good (12:9) • Treat others like family (12:10a) • Put others first (12:10b) • Equip yourself for love (12:11-12) • source of love: the Spirit • goal of love: serve Christ • fuel of love: hope, perseverance, prayer
How to Genuinely Love $ can’t buy love... but it can give love! Abhor evil& cling to good (12:9) Treat others like family (12:10a) Put others first (12:10b) Equip yourself for love (12:11-12) Give to meet material needs (12:13)
Genuine Love 1 John 4:10–11 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.