Because of the mercies of God... 1.Present your whole self to God 2.Don’t offer yourself to the world 3.Become transformed.

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Because of the mercies of God... 1.Present your whole self to God 2.Don’t offer yourself to the world 3.Become transformed

...is not:...is: -an emotion, feeling -conditional -selfish John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

...is not:...is: -an emotion, feeling -conditional -selfish -sacrificial devotion -unconditional -selfless

Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20) 1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20) 1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Only way to love God (1 John 4:8,20) Only way to love God (1 John 4:8,20) Makes our lives meaningful (1 Cor 13:1-3) Makes our lives meaningful (1 Cor 13:1-3) 1 Corinthians 13:1–3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20) Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20) Life is worthless without it (1 Cor 13:1-3) Life is worthless without it (1 Cor 13:1-3)

Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Treat others like family (12:10a) Treat others like family (12:10a) – philostorgos – to love as a parent does – philadelphia – brotherly love

Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Treat others like family (12:10a) Treat others like family (12:10a) Put others first (12:10b) Put others first (12:10b) Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves

Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Treat others like family (12:10a) Treat others like family (12:10a) Put others first (12:10b) Put others first (12:10b) Equip yourself for love (12:11-12) Equip yourself for love (12:11-12) – source of love: the Spirit – goal of love: serve Christ – fuel of love: hope, perseverance, prayer

Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9) Treat others like family (12:10a) Treat others like family (12:10a) Put others first (12:10b) Put others first (12:10b) Equip yourself for love (12:11-12) Equip yourself for love (12:11-12) Give to meet material needs (12:13) Give to meet material needs (12:13) $ can’t buy love... but it can give love!

1 John 4:10–11 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.