2. We Should Love One Another

3. We Should Love One Another
Christian righteousness will invite hate from the world

4. 1 John 3: (NET Bible)
11 For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another, 12 not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous. 13 Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

5. We Should Love One Another Cain murdered Abel, his brother.

7. We Should Love One Another
“Whenever the community of faith acts so as to expose greed, avarice, hatred, and wickedness of the world, it must expect rejection.”
–Frank E. Gaebelein

8. We Should Love One Another
“Godlessness is disturbed by the condemning presence of righteousness in its midst, and it would remove the cause of its discomfort if it could.”
–Burdick

9. We Should Love One Another
“But the person who refuses to love fellow believers remains in a state of spiritual death. Such a person is surely an unbeliever….and the fact that they remain in a state of spiritual death demonstrates John’s belief that they were never genuine believers to begin with.”
–Quicknotes

10. We Should Love One Another
Christian righteousness will invite hate from the world

11. We Should Love One Another
Christian righteousness will invite hate from the world
Christian love will be sacrificially shown to believers

12. 1 John 3: (NET Bible)
16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

13. 1 John 3: (NET Bible)
16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

14. John 15: (NET Bible)
12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.

15. We Should Love One Another
Cain
Jesus

16. We Should Love One Another
Cain
Jesus
Hate
Love

17. We Should Love One Another
Cain
Jesus
Hate
Love
Hate denies other’s needs to meet our own.
Love denies our own needs to meet those of others.

18. We Should Love One Another
Cain
Jesus
Hate
Love
Hate denies other’s needs to meet our own.
Love denies our own needs to meet those of others.
Hate sacrifices another’s life.
Love sacrifices one’s own life.

19. We Should Love One AnotherUS
Cain
Jesus
Hate
Love
Hate denies other’s needs to meet our own.
Love denies our own needs to meet those of others.
Hate sacrifices another’s life.
Love sacrifices one’s own life.

20. We Should Love One Another
The Lord’s Prayer should remind you that you are not an only child.

21. We Should Love One Another
“It is easier to be enthusiastic about Humanity with a capital ‘H’ than it is to love individual men and women, especially those who are uninteresting, exasperating, depraved, or otherwise unattractive. Loving everybody in general may be an excuse for loving nobody in particular.” –G.P. Lewis

22. We Should Love One Another
What are we doing to meet the needs of others?

23. We Should Love One Another
Christian righteousness will invite hate from the world
Christian love will be sacrificially shown to believers

24. We Should Love One Another
Christian righteousness will invite hate from the world
Christian love will be sacrificially shown to believers
Christian obedience will yield confidence before God

25. 1 John 3: (NET Bible)
19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence, 20 that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things. 21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God, 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

26. 1 John 3: (NET Bible)
23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment. 24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

27. 1 John 3: (NET Bible)
23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment. 24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

28. We Should Love One Another
“Belief comes first because it is the basis for love, but love is the only expression of true faith.”
–Frank E. Gaebelein

29. John 5:24; 1 John 3:14 (NET Bible)
John 5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.”
1 John 3:14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians.

30. We Should Love One Another
“Eternal life is not earned by loving the brothers. Rather, loving the brothers is evidence that one has made the transition from death to life.”
–NAC

31. We Should Love One Another
“As a result of active participation in the truth by real deeds of love, Christians can calm their disapproving hearts and achieve boldness in prayer.”
–BKC