1. The King’s Command

4. Mark 12:34
…After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions.

5. The Command as BAD News
Goal: Simplify the Law so we can keep it

6. The Command as BAD News
“love” = to “cherish, be devoted to”

7. The Command as BAD News
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

8. The Command as BAD News
“love” = the choice to sacrifice self for sake of the other

9. The Command as BAD News
Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind John 14:15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”

10. The Command as BAD News
Love your neighbor as yourself Philippians 2:3-4 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves…

11. The Command as BAD News
Love your neighbor as yourself Philippians 2:3-4 …do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

12. The Command as BAD News
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 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…

13. The Command as BAD News
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 …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.

14. The Law requires the impossible of us! That’s why we need a Savior.
The Command as BAD News
The Law requires the impossible of us! That’s why we need a Savior.

15. The Command as BAD News
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit

16. The Command as BAD News
2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

17. The Command as GOOD News
Romans 13:9-10 For this, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying…

18. The Command as GOOD News
Romans 13:9-10 …“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

19. The Command as GOOD News
John 14:16-17 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth… you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”

20. The Command as GOOD News
Galatians 5:16, But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control…

21. How to Grow in Love Practice Spiritual Disciplines
Habits that make us available to the Spirit’s transformative work

22. How to Grow in Love Practice Spiritual Disciplines Matthew 6:21
READ the Word
GIVE
Matthew 6:21
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

23. How to Grow in Love Practice Spiritual Disciplines READ the Word GIVE
SERVE

25. The King’s Command