NRC Measures
Listening for God’s Voice
Looking to God’s Word
Loving God’s People
Living Sent
1 John 3:13–18
13 Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.
BiG Idea: Loving God’s people is an
John 13:35
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
When it comes to Loving God’s people…
How am I pursuing authentic community with other believers?
What gets in the way of community with other believers?
True Love is
1 John 4:7–11
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 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. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice, for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.
1 John 4:19–21
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother or sister whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.
Philippians 3:12–14
12 Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, 14 I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
James 1:17
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Philippians 3:7–11
7 But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith. 10 My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, 11 assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.
Challenge: Am I grateful and thankful daily?
1 John 4:20a
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar…
Matthew 22:34–40
34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together. 35 And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test him: 36 “Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind., 38 This is the greatest and most important command. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself., 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”
My love for God fuels my love for
1 John 4:20b
20…For the person who does not love his brother or sister whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen
Challenge: What is the quality of my relationship with those closest to me?
1 John 4:21b
21…The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.
Our love is intended to be a
John 17:21
21 May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me.
This Week I will:
Pursue Jesus by:
Point to Jesus by:
Memorize: 1 John 4:19,20, or 21
Next Sunday: John 20