John 13:34-35 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another
Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[i] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
The Stanza: Truly he taught us to love one another.
• “These things I command you, so that you will love one another.” • “Love one another with brotherly affection.”
• “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
• “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
“May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all.”
• “Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.” • “Let brotherly love continue.”
• “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well.”
• “Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.”
• “For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.”
• “And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he commanded us.”
• “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”
• “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1. When we love like Jesus it will stretch us.
Matthew 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[i] and hate your enemy.’
2. When we love like Jesus We Will See Others in Need
Matthew 5:46 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
3. When we love like Jesus, it go beyond words
John 13:34-35 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another”
4. When we love like Jesus, We will listen
Dietrich Bonhoeffer “We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.”
Truly he taught us to Love One another. If we don't get anything right, we need to get this... and we can b/c he taught us by his life.