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True Love Romans 12:9-13, 13:8-10

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True Love Romans 12:9-13, 13:8-10. Application of Romans 1-11. Because of the mercies of God... Present your whole self to God Don’t offer yourself to the world Become transformed. What Genuine Love. ...is:. John 15:13 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 2: True Love  Romans 12:9-13, 13:8-10

Application of Application of Romans 1-11Romans 1-11

Because of the mercies of God...Because of the mercies of God...1.1.Present your whole self to GodPresent your whole self to God2.2.Don’t offer yourself to the worldDon’t offer yourself to the world3.3.Become transformedBecome transformed

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What Genuine What Genuine Love...Love...

...is not:...is not: ...is:...is:

- an emotion, feelingan emotion, feeling- conditionalconditional- selfishselfish

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

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What Genuine What Genuine Love...Love...

...is not:...is not: ...is:...is:

- an emotion, feelingan emotion, feeling- conditionalconditional- selfishselfish

- sacrificial devotionsacrificial devotion- unconditionalunconditional- selflessselfless

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Why Genuine Love Why Genuine Love MattersMatters

• Fulfills the whole Law Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10)(Rom 13:8-10)

• Shows we’re Christ’s disciples Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35)(John 13:35)

John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

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Why Genuine Love Why Genuine Love MattersMatters

• Fulfills the whole Law Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10)(Rom 13:8-10)

• Shows we’re Christ’s disciples Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35)(John 13:35)

• Can’t love God without it Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20)(1 John 4:8,20)

1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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Why Genuine Love Why Genuine Love MattersMatters

• Fulfills the whole Law Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10)(Rom 13:8-10)

• Shows we’re Christ’s disciples Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35)(John 13:35)

• Can’t love God without it Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20)(1 John 4:8,20)

1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

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Why Genuine Love Why Genuine Love MattersMatters

• Fulfills the whole Law Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10)(Rom 13:8-10)

• Shows we’re Christ’s disciples Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35)(John 13:35)

• Only way to love God Only way to love God (1 John 4:8,20)(1 John 4:8,20)

• Makes our lives meaningful Makes our lives meaningful (1 Cor 13:1-3)(1 Cor 13:1-3)

1 Corinthians 13:1–3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

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Why Genuine Love Why Genuine Love MattersMatters

• Fulfills the whole Law Fulfills the whole Law (Rom 13:8-10)(Rom 13:8-10)

• Shows we’re Christ’s disciples Shows we’re Christ’s disciples (John 13:35)(John 13:35)

• Can’t love God without it Can’t love God without it (1 John 4:8,20)(1 John 4:8,20)

• Life is worthless without it Life is worthless without it (1 Cor 13:1-3)(1 Cor 13:1-3)

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How to Genuinely How to Genuinely LoveLove

• Abhor evil & cling to good Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9)(12:9)

• Treat others like family Treat others like family (12:10a)(12:10a)– philphilostorgos – to love as a parent doesostorgos – to love as a parent does– philphiladelphia – brotherly loveadelphia – brotherly love

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How to Genuinely How to Genuinely LoveLove

• Abhor evil & cling to good Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9)(12:9)

• Treat others like family Treat others like family (12:10a)(12:10a)

• Put others first Put others first (12:10b)(12:10b)

Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves

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How to Genuinely How to Genuinely LoveLove

• Abhor evil & cling to good Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9)(12:9)

• Treat others like family Treat others like family (12:10a)(12:10a)

• Put others first Put others first (12:10b)(12:10b)

• Equip yourself for love Equip yourself for love (12:11-12)(12:11-12)– source of lovesource of love: the Spirit: the Spirit– goal of lovegoal of love: serve Christ: serve Christ– fuel of lovefuel of love: hope, perseverance, prayer: hope, perseverance, prayer

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How to Genuinely How to Genuinely LoveLove

• Abhor evil & cling to good Abhor evil & cling to good (12:9)(12:9)

• Treat others like family Treat others like family (12:10a)(12:10a)

• Put others first Put others first (12:10b)(12:10b)

• Equip yourself for love Equip yourself for love (12:11-12)(12:11-12)

• Give to meet material needs Give to meet material needs (12:13)(12:13)

$ can’t buy love...but it can give love!

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Genuine LoveGenuine Love

1 John 4:10–11 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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