1. The Proclamation of God’s Word
“Learning to Love Like Jesus:
Three Obstacles to Love”
~ Rev. Dr. David Karlberg

2. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
I. Judging blocks love.
II. Self-righteousness blocks love.
III. Legalism blocks love.

3. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
I. Judging blocks love.

4. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
Judging blocks love.
Matthew 7:3-4
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

5. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
Judging blocks love.
John 9:1-3
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.

6. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
Judging blocks love.
John 9:6-7
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

7. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
I. Judging blocks love.
II. Self-righteousness blocks love.

8. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
Self-righteousness blocks love.
Luke 18:9-12
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

9. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
Self-righteousness blocks love.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector

10. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
I. Judging blocks love.
II. Self-righteousness blocks love.
III. Legalism blocks love.

11. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
Legalism blocks love.
Luke 11:37-38
When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. 38 But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised.

12. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
Legalism blocks love.
Luke 10:40b
She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

13. Learning to Love Like Jesus: Three Obstacles to Love”
I. Judging blocks love.
II. Self-righteousness blocks love.
III. Legalism blocks love.