By This We Know Love

—1 John 3:16–18 & 4:9–11

  • Andrew Fountain – July 2, 2023

 
 
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1 John 3

  1. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us,
    and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.…
  2. Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in action and in truth.

The Ultimate Demonstration of Love

  1. Love is Humble
  2. Love is Costly
  3. Love is a Choice
  4. Love is Actions, not Just Words

Philippians 2:6–11 CSB

  1. Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus
  2. who, existing in the form of God,
    did not consider equality with God
    as something to be exploited.
  3. Instead he emptied himself
    by assuming the form of a servant,
    taking on the likeness of humanity.
    And when he had come as a man,
  4. he humbled himself by becoming obedient
    to the point of death—
    even to death on a cross.

1 John 4 —Taking on the cost of our bad behavior

  1. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
  2. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  3. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.

By This We Know Love

  1. Love is Humble
  2. Love is Costly
  3. Love is a Choice
  4. Love is Actions, not Just Words

2. Love is Costly

  • True love is putting the other person’s needs above your own
  • So true love in marriage is laying down your own needs and desires as your first priority, and putting your spouses needs first.
  • A kind of death to self

1 John 3

  1. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us,
    and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.…
  2. Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in action and in truth.

By This We Know Love

  1. Love is Humble
  2. Love is Costly
  3. Love is a Choice
  4. Love is Actions, not Just Words

The Five Love Languages

  1. Acts of service.
  2. Receiving gifts.
  3. Quality time.
  4. Words of affirmation.
  5. Physical touch.

by Gary Chapman

1 John 3

  1. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us,
    and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.…
  2. Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in action and in truth.
  • Love is Humble
  • Love is Costly
  • Love is a Choice
  • Love is Actions, not Just Words