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Love
Sermons on Love
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First John Chapter 3 (#7)… Verses 16-17Part 7 of 9
3:16-17 for God and Christ's wonderful love for us by laying down His life for us on the cruel cross of Calvary. The call from heaven is for us to lay our lives down in a similar manner for our…
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First John Chapter 3 (#6)… Verses 13-15Part 6 of 9
3:13-15 for brotherly love proving a huge difference from nature and the world and proof of everlasting life. Lack of brotherly love is hatred and the same as murder, which proves no eternal life. The standard here and the severe…
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First John Chapter 3Part 5 of 9
In contrast to brotherly love is the horrible example of a hateful brother – Cain. Think! Why did the Holy Spirit bring up this devilish murderer in this lesson about love? Because the old man inside every Christian is like…
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First John Chapter 3Part 4 of 9
Here begins John's significant emphasis on brotherly love, which is the greatest duty and evidence of grace in a Christian's life. If churches stressed it more, they would grow in grace by the Holy Spirit faster and better. Brotherly love…
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First John Chapter 3 (#1)… VersePart 1 of 9
3:1 for the glorious doctrine of adoption, a gift by God's love to the elect – they are made the sons of God. Behold! What manner of love! The five phases of adoption are very helpful. Just as the world…
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First John Chapter 2 (#8)… verse 16Part 8 of 16
This world is the enemy of God, and He has called us to hate it, if we truly love Him. All Christians must face the fact we live in a place that hates God and promotes sin to us every…
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First John Chapter 2 (#5)… Verses 9-11Part 5 of 16
2:9-11 teach love or hatred toward a brother has serious consequences on the soul. Love will give internal light by the Spirit to avoid errors in life, but hatred blinds and deceives men to make errors without knowing why. Hatred…
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First John Chapter 2 (#4)… Verses 8-9Part 4 of 16
2:8-9 used the N.T. era as a reason to love one another. The darkness of hateful and violent living under Satan's universal rule had been broken, as the apostles took the loving religion of Jesus to the nations. A new…
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First John Chapter 2 (#3)… Verse 8Part 3 of 16
2:8 used the N.T. era as a key reason to love one another. The darkness of hateful and violent living under Satan's universal rule had been broken, as the apostles took the loving religion of Jesus to the nations. A…
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First John Chapter 2 (#2)… Verses 7-8Part 2 of 16
2:7-8 began a five-verse lesson about loving the brethren. Two introductory parts of the lesson are special. First, the command to love one another is old as coming from Christ and new as emphasized by Christ. Second, John appealed to…
