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JESUS’ LOVEYOUR LOVE
8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
JAMES 2:8-13
11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. 12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,
JAMES 2:8-13
13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
JAMES 2:8-13
REAL REAL LOVELOVE
GOD LOVES GOD LOVES HIS PEOPLE HIS PEOPLE LIKE THATLIKE THAT
WHAT IS WHAT IS REAL LOVE?REAL LOVE?
LOVE IS LOVE IS BIBLICALBIBLICAL
The Bible is ultimately about God’s love, and before it talks to us about our love, it talks to us about God’s love. And this is really important, otherwise the Bible becomes a series of principles to live by
instead of a person to live for.
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
MATTHEW 22:37–40
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
MATTHEW 22:37–40
5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
DEUTERONOMY 6:5
18 “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
LEVITICUS 19:18
SELF-SELF-LOVELOVE
5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 5:5
It starts with the love of God. God does love you.
And because He loves you, He pours His love into you so that His love can be poured through you.
“Everything will make progress in your life and the Scriptures will start to make
sense when you know that God loves you, and then you respond by loving
Him and loving others.”
LOVE IS LOVE IS SACRIFICIALSACRIFICIAL
8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
JAMES 2:8-13
11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. 12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,
JAMES 2:8-13
13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
JAMES 2:8-13
This is important. There is no right understanding of love apart from the love of God, the God of love, which is only to be found in the Word of God.
Our world has no understanding of love. It doesn’t.
To understand love, we don’t begin with ourselves, we begin with the Scriptures. The Scriptures reveal to us who God is
and how God loves.
SOVEREIGN SOVEREIGN LOVELOVE
We don’t live in a way that we are autonomous or live autonomously, but we live under God’s sovereignty, that
God rules over us.
Jesus is King. and He’s a good King. He rules over us in sovereignty, and He has Scripture to be our
authority.
LOVE IS LOVE IS SELF-LESSSELF-LESS
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
MATTHEW 22:37–40
The Bible assumes that we do love ourselves and the Bible assumes that
we often fail to love others.
12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
MATTHEW 7:12
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
MATTHEW 5:17–18
THE THE ROYAL LAWROYAL LAW
Jesus gives us His royal law in the Scriptures, and then the king gets off his throne, enters into human history, and
lives by his own laws. And He lives in such a way to fulfill the royal law.
That’s why He said He came.
Jesus fulfills the law for us, and He does a work in us so that we now love the
royal law, and we love the King, and we want to obey the King, and we want to serve the King, and we want to become
more like the King.
LOVE IS LOVE IS MERCIFULMERCIFUL
8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
JAMES 2:8-13
13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
JAMES 2:8-13
PERFECT OR PERFECT OR IMPERFECTIMPERFECT
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
MATTHEW 5:48
There are two categories in all of human history: sinners and Jesus.
We’re not supposed to compare ourselves to people; we’re supposed to
compare ourselves to one person—Jesus Christ, the only one who’s fulfilled
the royal law.
SHOWING SHOWING PARTIALITY PARTIALITY
IS SINIS SIN
Some of you believers are like, “I won’t be judged. I’m a believer.
I’m not going to be judged.” You won’t be condemned, but you will
be judged. Everyone will stand before the
judgment seat of Christ.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’”
ROMANS 14:10-12
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
ROMANS 14:10-12
9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
REVELATION 7:9
We’ll all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and our lives will be judged.
And we’ll be judged not for our salvation or damnation, but for our
rewards in eternity. Your life matters. It really does count.
Everything you’re doing will be judged. “For judgment is without mercy to one
who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” God is perfect. Heaven is perfect.
God’s royal law is perfect, and it perfectly condemns, judges everyone as
a transgressor, as a rebel, as a law-breaker. He has transitioned from love
to justice.
THE WRATH THE WRATH OF GODOF GOD
All religions don’t save. God doesn’t love everyone forever. You don’t just die and
go to a better place. Some people die, and they go to hell, and they live
eternally under the conscious eternal torment of the wrath of God.
The wrath of God, is mentioned in the Bible more often than the love of God. The Bible does say that God is love, but
more often than the love of God is mentioned the holiness of God.
The most common attribute of God mentioned in the whole Bible.
The bedrock of it all. God is holy, God is good, God is right, God is altogether only and always without sin. Clean,
pure, undefiled, and un-compromised.
You’ve all been lied to. Not all gods are the same, not all religions are the same, not all saviors save, and there’s not one good person among us. We are all guilty
under the law of our good King. ONLY AND ONLY JESUS SAVES.
And the Bible speaks of the wrath of God with some 20 words on some 600
occasions.
Jesus talks about hell more than anyone in the whole Bible. Jesus decides who goes to hell. Jesus decides what the
sentence is in hell. You will live forever.
The Bible says that hell was built for Satan and demons, but there’s room for you too, if you don’t repent for your sins
and accept Jesus as your Savior and Lord.
GOD’S GOD’S HOLINESS HOLINESS AND LOVE AND LOVE
INTERSECT INTERSECT AT THE CROSSAT THE CROSS
How many of you, were hoping there was a remedy for your condition, a hope
for your salvation?
The remedy is MERCY.
Mercy is where you deserve something bad and you don’t get it.
You get something wonderful instead of something awful. Every time the Bible speaks of God’s love, it’s pointing to
Jesus’ cross. James knew this. He watched his brother get crucified, and then after Jesus rose from the dead,
he would have explained to James why he died so that God could still be a good
King with a royal law and love guilty transgressors without losing his holiness
or his love.
So the holiness of God and the love of God intersect at the cross of Jesus, and he calls that MERCY. That’s where they kiss. And so there’s no understanding of love, there’s no demonstration of love, there’s no reception of love apart from
the cross of Jesus.
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
ROMANS 5:8
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 JOHN 4:9–10
God sends us his written Word. He also sends us His Son as the living Word so
that we can hear about the love of God, but we could also see the love of God.
It begins with God seeking us, God loving us, God pursuing us before we
have a sense of need, before we have a desire or longing because we’re
spiritually dead and our desires are corrupted.
Christianity begins with God’s love for you. Before God asks you to love Him or love anyone, he loves you first, and he gives you his love to love him back and
to love others.
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
MATTHEW 5:17-18
This is how bad you are: God had to die for you. So, self-help, self-love is self-
delusion. We’re so bad that God had to die for us. We’re worse than we feared
and more loved than we hoped.
And all of this is made possible through Jesus.
It’s only made possible through Jesus.
TOLERANCE AND TOLERANCE AND TRANSFORMATIOTRANSFORMATIO
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God is tolerant. He welcomes through Jesus Christ everyone and anyone. Whatever religion, whatever race,
whatever sexuality, whatever income level, whatever proclivity, whatever
activity, He welcomes you.
JESUS JESUS LOVES LOVES
YOUYOU
The answer to all the problems is always the same. It’s the love of Jesus.
Though it seems impossible, if you will love your neighbor, God’s love will be
free to change you to become more like Jesus, who loves you the most.
Who do you need to forgive?
What do you need to let go of?
What do you need to move on from?
How do you need to love those whom you find it most difficult to love?
How has Jesus loved you, and how can you share that love?
I love you all. I love you all with the love of Jesus.
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