Loving Our Neighbors

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Loving Our Neighbors

• Love

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New Testament Love (Greek)

• Agape selfless, ideal love
• Eros passionate love and desire
• Philia virtuous love of friends and family
• Storge natural affection (parents for children)
• Xenia hospitality, ritualized friendship
  between strangers

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What is love?

• Love desires what is best for someone else.
• Love is actively seeing the best for another
  person.
• Love is actively and respectfully seeking the
  best for another person in a manner that displays
  your good will for them.

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Matthew 543-47

• 43 You have heard that it was said, Love your
  neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you
  Love your enemies and pray for those who
  persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your
  Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on
  the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
  righteous and the unrighteous.

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Matthew 543-47

• 46 If you love those who love you, what reward
  will you get? Are not even the tax collectors
  doing that? 47 And if you greet only your
  brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do
  not even pagans do that?
• NIV

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Matthew 543-47

• 43 You have heard that it was said, Love your
  neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you
  Love your enemies and pray for those who
  persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your
  Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on
  the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
  righteous and the unrighteous.

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Matthew 543-47

• 43 You have heard that it was said, Love your
  neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you
  Love your enemies and pray for those who
  persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your
  Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on
  the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
  righteous and the unrighteous.

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Matthew 543-47

• 43 You have heard that it was said, Love your
  neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you
  Love your enemies and pray for those who
  persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your
  Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on
  the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
  righteous and the unrighteous.

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Matthew 543-47

• 46 If you love those who love you, what reward
  will you get? Are not even the tax collectors
  doing that? 47 And if you greet only your
  brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do
  not even pagans do that?
• NIV

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1 Corinthians 134-8a

• 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
  envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is
  not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not
  easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6
  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with
  the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts,
  always hopes, always perseveres.
• 8 Love never fails.
• NIV

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1 Corinthians 136

• It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices
  whenever the truth wins out.
• New Living Translation

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What is love?

• Love is actively and respectfully seeking the
  best for another person in a manner that displays
  your good will for them.
• What about denial?
• What about enabling?
• What about tough love?

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1 John 17-9

• 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
  light, we have fellowship with one another, and
  the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all
  sin.
• 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive
  ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we
  confess our sins, he is faithful and just and
  will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
  unrighteousness.
• NIV

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Romans 21,4

• 1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass
  judgment on someone else, for at whatever point
  you judge the other, you are condemning yourself,
  because you who pass judgment do the same things
• 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his
  kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing
  that Gods kindness leads you toward
  repentance? NIV

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Matthew 2540,45

• I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one
  of the least of these brothers of mine, you did
  for me.
• I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do
  for one of the least of these, you did not do for
  me.
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Psalm 8611-13

• 11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in
  your truth give me an undivided heart, that I
  may fear your name.
• 12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my
  heart I will glorify your name forever.
• 13 For great is your love toward me you have
  delivered me from the depths of the grave. NIV