Love Your Neighbor (Week 6)

1 Corinthians 13:4-6

By Michael Lockstampfor, May 05, 2024

Love is confident in God’s calling

  • is a deadly game that everyone .
  • Jesus alone makes peace w/God & others (1 John 2:1-2, 8)
  • If we’ve received a gift, let’s guard against assuming we’ve made it ourselves (1 Corinthians 4:7-8)
  • Love never self and never others.

Love humbly seeks God’s will

  • True love that we recenter our lives off of our and onto our
  • and are cornerstones of truly loving others
  • Remember Cain who murdered his brother over his own poor worship? (1 John 3:11-12)

Love sees it’s a part of something bigger

  • Love is not a feeling that you , it is an action you .
  • Love is not a you demand, it is an you demonstrate.
  • Fully deserving of every glory, laid aside as He humbled Himself (Philippians 2) For the JOY that was set before Him He endured the cross (Hebrews 12) We love God when we PRACTICE loving our neighbors (1 John 3:16-18)

Love celebrates God’s wins

  • True love all the things that come to us
  • God is the and the of love (1 John 4:17-20)

TRUE LOVE ISN’T DEFINED BY HOW WE’RE FEELING.

  • How are we seeing ourselves in God’s eyes? How are we seeing others?
  • Whose kingdom have we been most concerned with this week?
  • Who are we most tempted to exclude?
  • What are we celebrating throughout the week?