47 53 The commandment to love is a call to perfect love in ourselves Loving as God has loved us is a work in progress for all of us Characteristics of the love of God being perfected ID: 633061
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1 John 2:3-11, 15-16; 3:1-2, 10-23; 4:7 – 5:3Slide3
The commandment to love is a call to perfect love in ourselves.Loving as God has loved us is
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work in progress for all of us.Characteristics of the love of God being perfected:True love keeps God’s word.Love walks as God has walked.Love and animosity cannot occupy the same heart.Slide4
The commandment to love is a call to perfect love in ourselves.Love abides in the light.
Love’s light is no cause for stumbling.
Ungodly desires and pride are not the love of the Father.
Fatherly love has begotten children.One must love to practice righteousness.Slide5
The commandment to love is a call to perfect love in ourselves.Love does not envy.
Love does not close his heart.
Love is willing to lay down his life for another.
Love loves in deed and in truth.Love’s motivation is God’s love.Godly love loves even when the recipient does not.Slide6
The commandment to love is a call to perfect love in ourselves.To abide in God one must abide in love.
Love instills confidence and assurance.
Love loves God’s children.
Loving God and loving brethren are intertwined.Slide7
A perfecting love casts out fear.“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.”1 John 5:13Slide8
A perfecting love casts out fear.Confidence and assurance grow out of properly loving God and others.
Spiritual peace and security within
(1 John 3:16-21)
Christ-likeness and confident outlook of future outcome (1 John 4:17-18)Slide9
A perfecting love casts out fear.“For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’”Romans 8:15Slide10
A perfecting love casts out fear.Walking the Lord’s way, perfect love casts out
other
fears.“fears within” (2 Corinthians 7:5)Unresolved fear is debilitating.Through the love of Christ, we can face and overcome whatever this life throws at us.Romans 8:35-39Slide11