Displaying Real Love

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A Summary of Love
1 Corinthians 13:1-7

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.​

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4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.​

A Requirement of God and Christ
Matthew 22:35-40

35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”​

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37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”​

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1 John 5:3; John 14:15; John 13:34​

The Best example of Showing Love for God and Neighbor
Jesus

John 5:16-19​

16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”​

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18 Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. 19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.​

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John 12:49, 50​

49 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”​

Love for God​

The son does nothing of himself. Only what he sees the father doing. this he does in like manner.​

The son does what the father commands him to do, because these commands are everlasting life. So, the son speaks only what the fathers has told him to speak.​

Matthew 4:23​

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.​

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Mark 6:34​

When Jesus stepped ashore and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.​

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Matthew 9:35-38​

35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”​

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Luke 4:42-44​

42 Now when it was day, He departed and went into a deserted place. And the crowd sought Him and came to Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them; 43 but He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.” 44 And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.​

Love for Neighbor​

Jesus did healing, but that was not his primary work. Jesus went about preaching and teaching the kingdom of God. It was his primary work, for which he was sent. Jesus was moved with compassion for the crowds whom were spiritually starved, and he stayed with them teaching them many things. Despite they wanting him to stay longer with them, Jesus only had 3 and a half years on earth, so he let them know he had to go to others, but he would send others to help, and so, he chose and commissioned disciples to do this most important work. Luke 8:1; Luke 9:1-6; Luke 10:1-12; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8​

The disciples of Jesus

The disciples of Jesus showed love for God, and love for neighbor by taking up the work Jesus was assigned, and commissioned. They were zealous evangelizers of the gospel of the kingdom, as is seen in the entire book of acts of the Apostles.​

Jesus ordered them to preach, and preach they did.​

They preached everywhere, and without letup, even though they faced severe persecution.​

See Acts 4:1-26:30, as well as other letters of Paul.​

How are we doing in following the best examples of displaying love for God, and love for our neighbor?
Do you see room for improvement?

 

[SabbathBlessings]

1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.
3. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments

If you love Me, keep My commandments John 14:15

Showing mercy to thousands, who love Me and keep My commandments Exo 20:6