Loving More Like Jesus

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Loving More Like Jesus
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Scripture Reading Matthew 2237-40

• 37 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 greatest commandment.

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Scripture Reading Matthew 2237-40

• 39 And the second is like it You shall love
  your neighbor as yourself.
• 40 - On these hang all the Law and the Prophets.

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John 1334-35

• 34 - A new commandment I give to you, that you
  love one another, as I have loved you, that you
  also love one another.
• 35 By this all will know that you are My
  disciples, if you have love for one another.

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• We are to love the unlovable.

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• The love of God extends to all Man.

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1 John 410-11,19

• 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but
  that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
  propitiation for our sins.
• 11- Beloved if God so loved us, we also ought to
  love one another.
• 19 - We love Him because He first loved us.

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• We are to love others first.

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• Even the Tax Collectors loved those who loved
  them.

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Matthew 546

• For if you love those who love you, what reward
  have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the
  same?

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Romans 56-8

• 6 For when we were still without strength, in due
  time Christ died for the ungodly.
• 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one
  die yet perhaps for a good man someone would
  even dare to die.
• 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
  in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
  for us.

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• Jesus loved those who Hated Him.

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• We are to be completely void of self interest.

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Matthew 2639

• O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup
  pass from Me nevertheless, not as I will, but as
  You will.

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• Jesus had a Choice.

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Matthew 2653

• Or do you think that I cannot now pray to my
  Father, and He will provide Me with more than
  twelve legions of angels?

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Philippians 25-8

• 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in
  Christ Jesus,
• 6 who, being in the form of God, did not
  consider it robbery to be equal with God,

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Philippians 25-8

• 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the
  form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness
  of men,
• 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He
  humbled Himself and became obedient to the point
  of death, even the death of the cross.

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• Jesus made Himself nothing.

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• We are to love sacrificially.

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John 1512-13

• 12 This is My commandment, that you love one
  another as I have loved you.
• 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to
  lay down ones life for his friends.

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• Jesus showed us what the standard of love is.

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1 John 316-18

• 16 By this we know love, because He laid down
  His life for us. And we also ought to lay down
  our lives for the brethren.
• 17 But whoever has this worlds goods, and sees
  his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from
  him, how does the love of God abide in him?
• 18 My little children, let us not love in word
  or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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Romans 121

• I beseech you therefore brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service.

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Ephesians 522-25

• 22 -Wives submit to your own husbands as to the
  Lord.
• 23 - For the husband is the head of the wife, as
  also Christ is head of the church and He is the
  Savior of the body.

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• 24 - Therefore just as the church is subject to
  Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
  in everything.
• 25 - Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
  also loved the church and gave Himself for her.

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Colossians 312-13

• 12- Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and
  beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness,
  humility, meekness, longsuffering
• 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one
  another, if anyone has a complaint against
  another even as Christ forgave you, so you also
  must do.

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Loving More Like Jesus