The Way of Love

April 30, 2023

The Way of Love

Deuteronomy 6:1-3
1“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. 3Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Hear (Listen) = שָׁמַע šə·ma=Shema:
Used

times in Deuteronomy

Shema Deuteronomy 6:4-9
-Old testament Prayer. Greater than the ten commandments.
-The first and last prayer of the day for the Hebrews. Still to this day.
-The most important prayer for the Hebrews.
-In a way it was the Hebrew creed. Or pledge of allegiance.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Love = אֶתְכֶ֗ם ’a·hă·ḇāh (Ahava
Used

times in Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

is God’s love language.

John 13:34-35
34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 14:21
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 14:24
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

Love = ἀγαπᾷ agapaó (Agapa)

John 15:5-17
5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Abide = μένων menó (Meno)

is Jesus’ love language.

To Jesus Love matters

.

Love is:
The

for the rest of the commandments.
The

for how we should treat others.
The

for every church.
The

for how we should see the world.
The

for what we say and teach.
The

for building our lives.
The

Jesus came to sacrifice His life for us.

3 ways to prove you walk in Jesus’ Way of love.

Show up! It proves to others you

.

Know them! It proves to others they are

knowing.

Never run away! It proves to others that love

most.