Deeply Loving One Another

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"Deeply Loving One Another"
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• 1 John 311-15 (The Message) For this is the
  original message we heard We should love each
  other. We must not be like Cain, who joined the
  Evil One and then killed his brother. And why did
  he kill him? Because he was deep in the practice
  of evil, while the acts of his brother were
  righteous. So dont be surprised, friends, when
  the world hates you.

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• This has been going on a long time. The way we
  know weve been transferred from death to life is
  that we love our brothers and sisters. Anyone who
  doesnt love is as good as dead. Anyone who hates
  a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know
  very well that eternal life and murder dont go
  together.

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• Love Each Other
• Negative example of Cain

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• Love Each Other
• Negative example of Cain
• Positive example of love instead of hatred

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• 1 John 31617 This is how weve come to
  understand and experience love Christ sacrificed
  his life for us. This is why we ought to live
  sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not
  just be out for ourselves. If you see some
  brother or sister in need and have the means to
  do something about it but turn a cold shoulder
  and do nothing, what happens to Gods love? It
  disappears. And you made it disappear.

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• LOVING DEMONSTRABLY
• GOD DEMONSTRATES THIS
• WE ARE TO IMITATE GODS LOVE IN CHRIST
  DEMONSTRABLY TO OTHERS
• IF I DONT DEMONSTRATE THIS TO OTHERS I MURDER
  GODS LOVE

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• 1 John 3v1820 My dear children, lets not just
  talk about love lets practice real love. This
  is the only way well know were living truly,
  living in Gods reality. Its 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.

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• LOVING OTHERS DEMONSTRABLY DELIVERS US AND
  BLESSES OTHERS
• LOVING OTHERS DELIVERS US FROM OURSELVES

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• James 215-16 (The Message) For instance, you
  come upon an old friend dressed in rags and
  half-starved and say, Good morning, friend! Be
  clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy
  Spirit! and walk off without providing so much
  as a coat or a cup of soupwhere does that get
  you?

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• LOVING OTHERS DEMONSTRABLY DELIVERS US AND
  BLESSES OTHERS
• LOVING OTHERS DELIVERS US FROM OURSELVES
• Truth - People are attracted by genuine love,
  but repelled by the artificial variety.
• LOVING OTHERS RELEASES US TO SEE THAT GOD WILL
  CARE FOR US

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• 1 John 3v2124 And friends, once thats taken
  care of and were no longer accusing or
  condemning ourselves, were bold and free before
  God! Were able to stretch our hands out and
  receive what we asked for because were doing
  what he said, doing what pleases him. Again, this
  is Gods command to believe in his personally
  named Son, Jesus Christ.

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• He told us to love each other, in line with the
  original command. As we keep his commands, we
  live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in
  us. And this is how we experience his deep and
  abiding presence in us by the Spirit he gave us.

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• LOVING OTHERS IS LIVING DEEPLY AND SURELY IN
  CHRIST
• Faith/Belief in Christ
• Loving each other

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• LOVE EACH OTHER
• LOVE EACH OTHER DEMONSTRABLY
• LOVING OTHERS DEMONSTRABLY DELIVERS US AND
  BLESSES OTHERS
• LOVING OTHERS IS LIVING DEEPLY AND SURELY IN
  CHRIST

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