OPENING UP TO GOD'S LOVE (1 John 3)
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life
for us. And we ought to lay down
our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a
brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that
person?
II. Open Your Hearts
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our
hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn
us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if
our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.23 And this is his command:
to believe in the name of his
Son, Jesus Christ, and to love
one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s
commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we
know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
III. Open Your Hands
18 Dear children, let us
not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
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