Love Completely - MSQ
Part of One Month to Live
July 7, 2024

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LOVE COMPLETELY

Message Study Questions

Message Summary

God created us with a need for connection with Him. We are also created with a need for others (social intimacy). We want to be loved, known and love in return; but it isn’t easy because the people around us aren’t perfect. How do we love more completely?

We first need to experience the love of God – we cannot give what we have not received. When we make the decision to follow Christ, our position changes from sinner to saint. We go from a sinner that is forgiven to a saint that. We are who God says we are now; a new creation in Christ, a child of God and an heir. Believers are declared to be chosen of God, ambassadors, redeemed, citizens of heaven, and free with the righteousness of God.

Second, we need to love ourselves. Jesus declares that we are His friends. Loving ourselves and knowing who we are is the second important piece of loving completely. And, we can love others more completely when we then love our neighbors as ourselves. People can be irritating, irrational or ignorant but God can still refine our character through them. Intentionally developing an attitude of humility, forgiveness and thanksgiving lays a foundation for love in action.

Third, we need to love others as ourselves. Believers can love more completely by seeing other humans as beings created in God’s image and loved by God. Then, through the power of the Holy Spirit, love treats others as we would like to be treated, to grant and ask for forgiveness, and to give sacrificially of ourselves and our means to others. We love more completely when we are connected more completely to God.

  1. Off the top of your head, list five things in your life that you’d change if you only had one month to live. Choose at least one to begin changing today, right now.

  2. How do you know that God loves you, from your own experience?

Consider This

“It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” - John 13:1

  1. Read Romans 5:8. What is the greatest proof of God’s love for us?

  2. How does God’s love transform us? How does God’s love for us change how we see others?

  3. Read Matthew 12:34 and 15:18. In what way do our words reveal what’s in our heart?
    What happens when we fail to love others?

  4. Compare the qualities of God’s love for you, as you experience it, to what the Bible says are the qualities of God’s love. Is there a difference? What can you do about it?

  5. “We love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). What does the Bible teach us about how we should respond to God’s love?

    • 1 John 3:23
    • 1 John 5:2, 4:21
    • 1 John 3:16
    • Ephesians 4:15
    • Romans 12:9-10
    • Romans 13:8-10

  6. Is loving God an emotion, a feeling, or a decision?

  7. How can you be a catalyst to help others experience the love of Christ?

  8. Read Psalm 10:4, Proverbs 11:2, 13:10, 29:23 and James 4:6. Why is pride the opposite of love?

Moving Forward – Application

“Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory” Romans 15:7

  1. “If you only had one month to live:

    • Whom would you spend time with?

    • Who do you need to forgive?

    • Who do you need to apologize to?

    • Who needs to be assured that you love them?

    • “What keeps you from spending the time and saying these words now?” Kerry and Chris Shook.

  2. How can you show God’s love to others in general this week? List two or three specifics.

  3. Is there something in your life that causes you to question God’s love for you? If so, name it. Tell God about it. Ask his Spirit to help you this week.