Sermon Outline
- Russell Martin Stendal
- John’s Command to Love
- Beloved (1Jn 2:7a)
- Love is an old command (1Jn 2:7, 4:7-8, 2Cor 13:11, Gen 24:27, Jn 17:24)
- Rooted in character of God
- Rooted in Creation Order
- Rooted in the Law (Dt 6:5, Lev 19:18)
- Love is a new command (1Jn 2:8)
- Rooted in Christ’s Example (Jn 13:34, 15:10-12)
- Love is Christ’s Character
- Love is the Christian’s Character
- Love is the eschatological reality
- Failure to love is to hate (1Jn 2:9, 11)
- Hate is animosity but also exclusion, rejection, insulting (Lk 6:22)
- Hate is anger (Mt 5:21-22, 43-45)
- Hate is easy to justify (Isa 5:20)
- Hate blinds, confuses, incarcerates (1Jn 5:9, 11)
- Love Frees (1Jn 2:10)
- Love Defined Practically
- Helps us not hinder the progress of others to the Cross (1Jn 2:10b, 1Cor 13:1-8a)
- Forgives (1Jn 2:12)
- Knows and relates to others because we are known and secure (1Jn 2:13-14)
- Overcomes evil one (1Jn 2:13-14, Jn 10:10)
- Why? b/c our Strength is in Christ
- Word Centered
- Love is freeing, helping in the walk of faith not hindering, forgiving, relating and evil overcoming.
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