1. Galatians 5
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Galatians 5:6 The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love
5: 13 Do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

2. NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH
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Becoming Like Jesus
Galatians 5:22 – 23
LOVE

3. 9 Fruit of the Spirit
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4. 9 Fruit of the Spirit
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Christian character

5. The First Fruit Love! Love your neighbour as yourself – Jesus
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Love!
Love your neighbour as yourself – Jesus
Practical proof we love and support each other
Caring, providing, helping, encouraging
Even when it costs
Dissolves divisions, brings people together

6. The First Fruit
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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 (John 13:34-35)
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you (John 15:12)
This is My command: Love each other (John 15:17)

7. The First Fruit
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For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another (1 John 3:11)
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need, but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and truth (1 John 3:17-18)

8. The First Fruit
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And this is His command: to believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as He commanded us (1 John 3:23)

9. The First Fruit
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Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love (1 John 4:7-8)
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us (1 John 4:11-12)

10. The First Fruit - Love
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When Christians love one another it is evidence of 4 things:
It is evidence of life
It is evidence of faith
It is evidence for God
It is evidence for Jesus

11. The First Fruit - Love
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What a vital fruit this is. It is first and foremost. When Christians love one another:
It proves they have eternal life
It proves they have saving faith
It proves the reality of God
It proves they are true followers of Jesus