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Aug 21, 2023 · Putting Peter’s admonition to “love each other deeply” alongside other passages of Scripture (such as 1 Corinthians 13:4–7; Matthew 22:37–39; 1 John 4:7–8; Romans 13:10), we clearly see that love should be the believer’s highest concern. Regrettably, Christians have not always set a good example of love.
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First, there’s a different source of these two loves. First John 4:19 says, “We love because he first loved us.” And how did he first love us? Well, John says in 1 John 3:16, “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.” So, Christian love is rooted in Christ’s sacrifice for me and f...
Second, Christian love is sustained and shaped by the work of God’s Spirit, where secular love isn’t. Paul calls it the “fruit of the Spirit” in Galatians 5:22. It is the Spirit that takes the death of Christ, causes it to be real for us, and gives us new hearts so that the death of Christ has a love-producing effect on us. First John 3:14says, “We...
Third and finally, Christian love has a different goal — not an entirely different goal, but a radically different goal. It’s not entirely different from the unbeliever who loves. It’s not entirely different because secular love often aims at the physical and emotional and psychological and relational and economic well-being of other people. And Ch...
And when someone asks, “Is it truly love for a person if we are motivated by the hope that God will be glorified through our love for this person?” I know people ask that question. I’ve heard it recently. And the answer is yes, it is love — the greatest love. The reason the answer is yes — it is love when you love someone in order that God would be...
Oct 18, 2019 · John affirmed that love for Christ is authenticated by obedience to Christ (John 14:15–23). He also pointed out that love for fellow Christians is the defining mark of true Christianity (John 13:34–35) and the dividing line between God’s children and Satan’s children (1 John 3:4–10). But John’s theology of love never softened his ...
Feb 26, 2019 · This is why Paul says love is even greater than faith and hope. Faith and hope are vital. Faith is, to paraphrase the writer of Hebrews, what pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). And hope is what gets us through life in a fallen, often hopeless world. But love is what fuels our faith. We have faith in Jesus because we love him.
Jun 16, 2021 · That all will change in the consummation of the kingdom, when we will be in God’s presence forever and will no longer need spiritual empowerment for ministry in a fallen world (v. 12). Love is the greatest Christian virtue (v. 13). Faith and hope, which focus on what we cannot see in the present, will pass away when we see God directly, but ...
Founder & Teacher, Desiring God. Love in the Bible, as in our everyday usage, can be directed from person to person or from a person to things. When directed toward things, love means enjoying or taking pleasure in those things. Love towards persons is more complex. As with things, loving persons may mean simply enjoying them and taking ...
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That love is the highest category of human moral obligation was a central feature of the moral teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, as developed both by Paul and John in the NT and extensively in Christian writing thereafter. It is closely associated by Jesus with the teaching of God’s fatherly love towards his creatures.
