Part 1: Love Leads to Action
Pastor Joel Varty
Part of A Church That Loves
January 21, 2024

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” —John 13:35 NIV

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight. —Philippians 1:9 NIV

As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what MUST I do to inherit eternal life?” “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness; do not defraud; honour your father and mother.”, He said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.” Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” But he was dismayed by this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” —Mark 10:17-23 CSB

Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive, the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” —Mark 10:14-15 CSB