LOVE

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love Have you ever wondered why God said, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself?”

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love In Leviticus 19:17-18 (NLT) 17 “Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives or Israelite brothers. Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin. 18 “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.”

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love Why did God stress this? Why did He make it a point to tell us this? Matthew 22: 37-40

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love Man’s first sin was in the Garden of Eden and this sin separated man from God, but man had a second sin against him - Cain killing Abel.

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love This second sin now separated man from man, brother from brother, neighbor from neighbor and like the first sin which spread to every offspring, this second sin did so also.

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love God is as indignant at man’s wrong treatment of his neighbor as He is about the treatment of man to his Creator.

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love What we have to understand is while man’s first sin was chiefly against disobeying God. And ends in a state of ungodliness (the state of being ungodly –denying or disobeying God)

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love Man’s second sin places him in a position of failing to adhere to a moral principle that all life is sacred, and mankind is now in a place of total unrighteousness - not being right with either God or his neighbour.

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love We cannot save ourselves that is why Christ had to come to bring Salvation into the earth, but the antidote for man’s second sin was in the earth long before Christ came.

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love And it is my responsibility to implement it between you and me, while Christ implements Salvation for our souls.

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Love We know how the decay in relationships comes and how it can be repaired or even prevented. Matthew 5:22-24

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Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Matthew 22: Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Matthew 5:22-24 (NKJV) 22 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’(an Aramaic term for contempt) shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.

Box Size Height: 1.95 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.42 Vertical: 3.53 Matthew 5:22-24 (NKJV) 23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.