building blocks for a better church part 2 – genuine love
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Building Blocks For A Better ChurchPart 2 – Genuine Love
Genuine Love
“It is good to speak of God today.”
Thank You for coming and worshiping.
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Psalms 146:1-2KJV 1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
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Burt Bacharach wrote a song about love.
What the world needs now is love, sweet loveIt's the only thing that there's just too little ofWhat the world needs now is love, sweet love,No not just for some but for everyone.Lord, we don't need another mountain,There are mountains and hillsides enough to climbThere are oceans and rivers enough to cross,Enough to last till the end of time.What the world needs now is love, sweet loveIt's the only thing that there's just too little ofWhat the world needs now is love, sweet love,No, not just for some but for everyone.
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Did you know that God’s love shows up in our every day life?
1 Corinthians 8:3KJV 3But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
1 John 2:5KJV 5But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
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Did you know that God’s love moved Him to do special things for us?
1 Corinthians 2:9KJV 9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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Did you know that God is love?
1 John 4:7-21KJV 7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
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18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19We love him, because he first loved us. 20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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Did you know that God’s love affects how we interact with Him and others?
1 John 5:3NKJV 3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
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Luke 10:25-37KJV 25And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 27And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. 28And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. 29But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
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30And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. 33But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
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34And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. 36Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? 37And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
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Jesus knew the answer for ETERNAL LIFE – vs. 25-26
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Jesus is the answer for ETERNAL LIFE – John 3:16
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Jesus verified the answer for ETERNAL LIFE – 26-28
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Jesus verified the answer for ETERNAL LIFE – 26-28
Love the Lord
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Jesus verified the answer for ETERNAL LIFE – 26-28
Love the Lord
Love you neighbor (as yourself)
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Problems happen in life – 30
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Problems happen in life – 30
Those needing help are all around – 31
Genuine Love
Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Problems happen in life – 30
Those needing help are all around – 31
Those who could/should help walk around – 32
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Problems happen in life – 30
Those needing help are all around – 31
Those who could/should help walk around – 32
Those who’ll help stick around – 33-35
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Problems happen in life – 30
Those needing help are all around – 31
Those who could/should help walk around – 32
Those who’ll help stick around – 33-35
Those who help cause us to want to be around
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Problems happen in life – 30
Those needing help are all around – 31
Those who could/should help walk around – 32
Those who’ll help stick around – 33-35
Those who help cause us to want to be around
Those who need help can be found – 1 Cor. 16: 13-20
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Those who need help can be found – 1 Cor. 16: 13-20
1 Corinthians 16:13-20KJV 13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 14Let all your things be done with charity. [LOVE]15I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,) 16That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
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Jesus shared an example of LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR – 30-37
Those who need help can be found – 1 Cor. 16: 13-20
17I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied. 18For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such. 19The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. 20All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
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When we deal with love, it is hard to not look at 1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 13:1NKJV 1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body £to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
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4Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
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10But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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What will real LOVE and CARING build in our lives (and thus… our church)?
Trust in each other?
Trust in the Lord?
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What are people that are not part of our church looking to find in our lives?
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What are people that are not part of our church looking to find in our lives?
Is it the “robes?”
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What are people that are not part of our church looking to find in our lives?
Is it the “robes?”
Is it the “titles?”
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What are people that are not part of our church looking to find in our lives?
Is it the “robes?”
Is it the “titles?”
Is it the “deeds?”
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What are people that are not part of our church looking to find in our lives?
Is it the “robes?”
Is it the “titles?”
Is it the “deeds?”
Is it the “brags?”
Genuine Love
What are people that are not part of our church looking to find in our lives?
Is it the “robes?”
Is it the “titles?”
Is it the “deeds?”
Is it the “brags?”
Is it OUR “actions?”
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Last week we saw that we need to WORSHIP God in the presence of each other.
God wants that in our lives. We are blessed when worship is in our lives.
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This week we have learned we need to LOVE each other in the presence of God.
We are blessed when love enters our lives. God expects this in our lives.