1. 1 Peter 3:17
“For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.”

3. Loving Your Neighbor
AS YOURSELF
Brea 3/19/2017

4. Lev. 19:18
“You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.”

5. Matt. 5:43-47
“You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.”

6. How Important Is This?
Matt. 22:39 – Gave it as the 2nd Greatest Command.
Luke 10:29 – Taught Parables On It.
Rom. 13:8-10
Gal. 5:14-15
Jas. 2:8-9
Luke 6:31

7. Let’s Apply It
Scenarios – What Would You Do?

8. Loving Your Neighbor’s Property
Exodus 20:17
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

9. What Would You Do?
You Are Walking Your Dog, But Forgot to Bring “Baggies”. You Don’t Realize Your Mistake Until Your Dog Does His Business On Your Neighbor’s Yard.

12. We Respect Their Property Because We Respect Them
It Doesn’t Matter How Much Value
We Place on It.

13. Considering Others Phil 2:3-4
“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself;
do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.”

14. What Would You Do?
You Just Left the Store and Are In A Hurry. You Quickly Load Up Your Car, But Now You Have to Do Something With the Shopping Cart.

17. What Would You Do?
You Are Driving, Minding Your Own Business, When You Get Behind a Slow Driver. This Person Seems to Not Only Be Having Trouble With Speed, But Having a Tough Time With Staying in the Lane. You Can’t Pass Them.

19. Lev 19:32 (Same Chapter)
“You shall rise up before the grayheaded, and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.”

20. Lam. 5:11-12 (Complaint About Babylon)
“They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.”

22. Have You Fulfilled the Law Yet?

24. Prov. 23:22
“Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.”

25. Problem They Loved Those Who Were LIKE THEM.
They Loved Those Who LOVED THEM.
They Loved Those Whom They Were COMFORTABLE LOVING.
Everyone Else Was Not Their Neighbor.

26. Loving Your Neighbor’s Property
It Begins in the Home.
Do You Babyproof the House Or
Houseproof the Children?

27. 1 Tim. 5:1-3
“Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are widows indeed.”

28. 1 Tim. 5:4, 8
“But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to practice piety in regard to their own family, and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God…

29. But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”