ARMS OF LOVE

What kind of a lover
Are you?

John 13:34 NIV
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

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1 John 4:8 NIV
"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

1 John 4:10-11 NIV
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

JESUS LOVE IS:

• Selfless
• Sacrificial
• Understanding
• Forgiving

LOVE IS A DECISION

PROBLEMS

• Difficult people
• Desire to give up

Matthew 5:44 NIV
"But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,"
- Jesus

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"More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love, than by all the theological arguments in the world...

...and more people have been driven from the church by hardness and ugliness... than by all of the doubts of the world."

John 13:35 NIV
"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

We love because he first loved us!

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