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TIMES OF SERVICES SUNDAY: 9:30 A.M. BIBLE CLASS 10:30 A.M. WORSHIP WEDNESDAY: 7 P.M. BIBLE CLASS Welcome to the Haynes Street church of Christ

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Sermon at the Haynes Street church of Christ on October 12, 2014. Topic: "Love" Preacher: Steven Matthews

Transcript of Love

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TIMES OF SERVICES

SUNDAY: 9:30 A.M. BIBLE CLASS

10:30 A.M. WORSHIP

WEDNESDAY: 7 P.M. BIBLE CLASS

Welcome to the Haynes Street church of Christ

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Love

How do you define love?If we want what’s best for others, our actions

should prove that, right?I John 4:7-11: Impossible to know God without

love.Matt. 22:37-39: Love God, love our neighbor.Love is not simply something we are supposed

to feel. It is something we are to do.I John 3:18: We love in deed and in truth.

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Love

Love is an action, not just an attitude.I Cor. 13:4-7: How Paul defines love.Examples: Luke 7:36-50; John 13:1; Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:27-28, 10:30-37.

Greatest example: John 3:16.Do we love the people in the world as

strongly as God loves them?Rom. 10:13-14: Take them the

message.

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Love

Take the actions of love to … Those hurting (Luke 10:30-37); to brethren

(Rom. 12:10); asking questions (Mark 10:21); let us down (John 13:1); sinner (Rom. 5:8); weak brethren (Rom. 14:15); cannot do anything for us (Luke 6:35); leaders (I Thess. 5:12-13); wife (Eph. 5:25); husband/children (Titus 2:4); parent (I Tim. 5:4); enemy (Matt. 5:44); and unloving (Matt. 5:46).

What are those actions of love?

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Love

I Cor. 13:4-7: Patience; kindness; support; humility and honor; propriety; sacrifice; peace; forgiveness; rejoice at the right things; forbearance; and trust.

We are also commanded to love ourselves.Same verses in I Cor. 13:4-7 apply to

loving yourself.If we are most concerned about pleasing

God, it will start and end with taking the actions of love.

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God’s Plan of Salvation

Hear (Romans 1:16; 10:14,17)Believe (John 8:24; Mark 16:16; Hebrews

11:6)Repent (Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30)Confess (Romans 10:9-10; Matthew 10:32-

33)Be baptized (Acts 2:38; 22:16; Mark 16:16)Live faithfully (Revelation 2:10; Matthew

6:33; Romans 12:1-2; I Corinthians 15:58)