B.A.S.I.C. Training

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Love In Action 1 John 317-24
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I Love You?
How do you know for sure? There is much more to
love than saying the words. Love is proven
genuine by actions.
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My Riches and My Love

• 1 John 317-18 -- If anyone has material
  possessions and sees a brother or sister in need
  but has no pity on them, how can the love of God
  be in that person? Dear children, let us not love
  with words or speech but with actions and in
  truth.

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How Rich Am I?

• Are we rich?
• As compared to other Americans?
• As compared to most of the rest of the world?
• Do we have possessions?

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Are They Poor?

• What degree of poverty is John addressing? What
  is true NEED?

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• The Role of Pity in Righteousness
• Know pity, know love.
• No pity, no love.
• Isaiah 587 -- Is it not to share your food with
  the hungry    and to provide the poor wanderer
  with shelter when you see the naked, to clothe
  them,    and not to turn away from your own
  flesh and blood?

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1 Timothy 68

• But if we have food and clothing, we will be
  content with that.
• Do we have talky love? Or active love?

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Testing Our Grasp Of The Truth

• Vs. 19-22 -- This is how we know that we belong
  to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in
  his presence If our hearts condemn us, we know
  that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows
  everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not
  condemn us, we have confidence before God and
  receive from him anything we ask, because we keep
  his commands and do what pleases him.

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• We can KNOW that we belong to the truth
• Does our heart condemn us as we stand before God?
• Does our grasp of pity and love reflect our
  understanding of Jesus?

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• The heart of confidence is a heart of active
  love.
• God reassures the loving, giving heart.
• God answers prayers for those who are actively
  loving and keeping His commands.

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• Faith, love and obedience
• Vs. 23-24 -- And this is his command to believe
  in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love
  one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps
  Gods commands lives in him, and he in them. And
  this is how we know that he lives in us We know
  it by the Spirit he gave us.

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• Commands And Promises

• We are commanded to believe in the NAME of Jesus.
• We are commanded to love one another.
• We are promised the reassurance of the Holy
  Spirit of God.