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2. Acts 6: Stephen’s Debate
Conversion of Priests Debating within the Synagogue The charges: Blasphemy

3. Acts 7: Stephen’s Defense
Charge: Blasphemy (Moses, God, Temple) Survey of the Old Testament: Promises to the Patriarchs (Gal 3) Promises of Moses Consideration of the Temple

4. Welcome! www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net
Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones
Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

5. Psalm 107:22 Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, And tell of His works with joyful singing
Hymns
Invitation
Red Songbook -
Supplemental

6. Growing in Christian Love 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 2 Peter 1:5-7
The mashup – in songs, when two songs are mixed. In scriptures, let us “mash up” 1 cor 13 and 2 pet 1

7. 1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another
It is not natural to have brotherly love. It requires spiritual effort and discernment. Why is it so important?

8. 1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another
This passage uses two words for love (similar to John 21:15-17)

9. Philadelphia, brotherly affection
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another
Philadelphia, brotherly affection
It is not natural to have brotherly love. It requires spiritual effort and discernment. Why is it so important?

10. love that seeks the best for another
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another
Agapeos,
love that seeks the best for another
It is not natural to have brotherly love. It requires spiritual effort and discernment. Why is it so important?

11. Paul’s Motivation 2 Corinthians 5:14
Paul suffered greatly for the Gospel
Shipwreck
Imprisonment
Torture
Ultimately death
WHY?
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
Why is it so important? It can accomplish great things. The love of Christ – that Christ’s love is not just for me.

12. 1 Corinthians 13 Paul spoke to the church about spiritual immaturity
Immorality among them
Division among them
Error in worship
Differing doctrines on marriage and meats
Paul summed up the solution in I Corinthians 13
Consider a letter on love.

13. “let brotherly love continue”?
All You Need is Love
Love is the solution to spiritual immaturity
It solves the personal and doctrinal disputes
It grants peace and patience
It requires effort and diligence to perfect
How do I
“let brotherly love continue”?

14. Scripture Mash-Up

15. Scripture Mash-Up 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 2 Peter 1:5-7
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2 Peter 1:5-7
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
Scripture Mash-Up

16. Scripture Mash-Up 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 2 Peter 1:5-7
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2 Peter 1:5-7
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
Scripture Mash-Up

17. Scripture Mash-Up 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 2 Peter 1:5-7
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2 Peter 1:5-7
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
Scripture Mash-Up

18. The Faith of Love
Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.
Love believes the best of things It does not think evil Love hopes for all things

19. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's wellbeing.
The Virtue of Love
Love does not seek for itself
Love does not boast
Love is not puffed up
1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's wellbeing.

20. The Understanding of Love
Love does not envy Love does not rejoice when bad things happen
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all sins

21. The Control of Love Ephesians 4:2
with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
Love is not easily provoked Love does not behave rudely

22. The Perseverance of Love
1 Thessalonians 5:14
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all
Love is patient Love endures all things

23. The Godliness of Love 1 John 4:16
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Love rejoices with the truth

24. The Kindness of Love Love is Kind
Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
Love is Kind

25. Perfecting Ourselves by Loving the Brethren
Faith
Virtue
Understanding
Self Control
Patience
Godliness
Kindness
This is what brotherly love looks like:

27. Salvation From Sin: Eternal Life
Put Your Faith in Christ through the Gospel
John 8:24
Repent or turn from your sins
Acts 2:38
Confess your faith in Christ
Matthew 10:32-33
Be immersed in water
Mark 16:16
Abide in Christ
2 John 9
Put into Christ