SEASON 4: SERIES: THE SACRIFICE OF LOVE: EPISODE 6: OUR LOVE FOR OTHERS MAKES A DIFFERENCE!

YOU ARE INVITED, THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN: JESUS HAS
EXTENDED THE INVITATION, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HAVE BEEN
INVITED IN TO SPEND THIS LIFE AND YOUR LIFE AFTER THIS WITH HIM.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH AND HEART SO HE CAN SAVE
YOU, MOLD YOU INTO A NEW CREATION. WILL YOU ACCEPT, WILL YOU SAY
YES TODAY? 


INTRODUCTION: THE SACRIFICE OF LOVE: OUR LOVE FOR OTHERS
MAKES A DIFFERENCE


 John 15:13- “Greater love has no one than this: to
lay down one’s life for one’s friends”.


1 Peter 4:8- “Above all, love each other deeply, because
love covers over a multitude of sin”.


 know we have heard so many sermons on love, we listen to
love songs, we experience things in life that make us think this
is love. Most of us however have learned the wrong way of loving
and believing what is love. According to Matthew 22:37-39, the
second greatest commandment given by Jesus was to love our
neighbor as myself. Of all the qualities that we could be working
on as Christians, the most significant one Jesus wanted us to
work on was LOVE and there is no gray area when it comes to us
loving one another and without the Holy Spirit, we cannot fulfill
this commandment.


Romans 13:8- “Owe no man anything, but to love one
another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law”.


 Rom. 13:10- "Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of
the law".


The presence of LOVE in the church and Christians are starting to
look like the stores we shop at, scarce and empty. People are
looking for the “love of God” through us, but they are having a
hard time distinguishing it from the “love of the world.
 
Matthew 24:12- "Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the
love of many will grow cold".

Love Cost and Love Adds Values to Others
Y'all this has become a pandemic in our homes, many of our young
children have never experienced the unconditional love of a
father or mother and they grow up not being able to give love. It
is time for us to do better.


We wonder why the murders are being committed by children too
young to understand the consequences of their choices. We see how
the drug dealers are selling drugs to the mothers, fathers,
sisters, and brothers. We see this when children are sold to sex
trades. We see this when so many children have been prescribed
antidepressant medications before the age of 18.  We see
this with police brutality, school shootings, robberies committed
in the middle of the day.  Can you all see why our love for
one another makes a difference? 


In "Strength to Love", Martin Luther King, Jr. tells us to take
responsibility to find out the purpose of this commandment to
love and to seek to live it out graciously every day.


Our goal in this Christian life is to give and show love. This is
a sign of a mature Christian when others see our love for God and
our love for others. Don't miss out on what being a Christian is
all about. It's all about the LOVE!


SCRIPTURES TO LIVE BY: 


1 John 3:11- “For this is the message that you heard from
the beginning, that we should love one another”.


JOHN 15:12- “That you love one another, as I have loved
you”


John 13:34–35- “A new commandment I give to you, That you
love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one
another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples if
you have love one to another”.


1 John 4:11- “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also
to love one another”.


NEXT WEEK, WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SERIES: THE SACRIFICE OF
LOVE: YOUR HATERS/ENEMIES NEED LOVE TOO!


Next week read: Matthew 5:43-48

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REMEMBER MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IT TAKES GRACE TO MAKE
IT!


Remember my sisters and brothers, it takes GRACE TO MAKE
IT!