How To Give God’s LOVE To OTHERS, Pt. 2

SERIES: BEING A GREAT PERSON FOR A GREAT GOD Mark 12:31; Selected Scriptures By D.Z. Cofield, Th.M, D.Min. May 29, 2022 Scripture 1 John 4:11-21 (ESV) – Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and. whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. How To Give God’s LOVE To OTHERS, Pt. 1 1. You need to realize The LORD COMMANDS you to LOVE your NEIGHBOR. Mark 12:28-31 (ESV) – And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Love – 2. You need to understand WHO your NEIGHBOR is to understand who you are to LOVE. Mark 12:31 (ESV) – The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Neighbor – How To Give God’s LOVE To OTHERS, Pt. 2 1. You need to understand what it means to love YOURSELF so you can properly LOVE your neighbor. Mark 12:31 (NKJV) – And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” A. You need to understand loving yourself is an ASSUMPTION and the STANDARD for loving others. Mark 12:31 (ESV) – The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” B. You must understand the difference between “loving YOURSELF” and being a “LOVER of SELF.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (ESV) – But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. Lovers of self – Loving someone as yourself – Philippians 2:3-4 (NLT) – Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. Acts 20:35 (ESV) – In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ James 2:14-16 (ESV) – What good is it, my brothers...