Loving Others What is Love? *Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other. * Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.

Loving Others *Love is what’s in the room at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. * When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you. * Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.

Loving Others *When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love. * Love is when you tell someone something bad about yourself and you’re scared they won’t love you anymore, but then you get surprised because not only do they still love you, they love you even more.

Loving Others *Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Tom Cruise. *Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.

Loving Others How important is loving others?

Loving Others 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 13: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Loving Others If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Loving Others John 22: “And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Loving Others What does loving our neighbor look like?

Loving Others LOVE IS: patient, kind, does not envy, does not boast, is not proud, Is not rude, not self-seeking,

Loving Others not easily angered, keeps no record of wrong, does not delight in evil, protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres. (From 1 Corinthians 13)

Loving Others What is the best environment to show this love?

Loving Others II. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR LOVING ONE ANOTHER 1. The only way we can do the second command is to make Jesus the passion of our life. 2. We are to love all people. 3. Our biggest enemy to loving others is our own desire for happiness APART from God and APART from others.

Loving Others 4. Our biggest partner to help us love others is the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:3-4: “For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a

Loving Others sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.”

Loving Others From now on here is our standard for every member’s love for one another at RBC: “Love others as much as you love yourself!”

Loving Others Everyone needs love. Every Christian needs love AND needs to love others.

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