Love is Something You Do Part 1 of 3

Love is Something You Do (Part 1 of 3)

“Love Commanded”

John 13:34

INTRODUCTION 

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34

A. What Is Love? Mat 7:12

“Treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 7:12 NASB

B. Two Different Words for Love

1.  Philia

2. Agape

I. “A New Commandment … Love One Another.” Jn 13:34; Lev 19:18; Jn 15.13; 13:1; Gal 5:14; Heb 13:1; Lk 6:32-35

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down His life for His friends.” John 15.13

“One Another” passages  Gal 5.13; Rom 15.17; Gal 6.2; Eph4.2, 32; 5.21; Phil 2.3; 1 Thes 4.18; Heb 3.13; 1 Thes 5.11, 13; Jas 5.16; 1 Pet 4.9; 5.5; Rom 12.10; 15.5; 1 Thes 5.15

II. The Criterion that Jesus Uses for Love Jn 13:34; 1 Jn 3:16; 1 Pet 2:21

“Love one another, even as I have loved you.” John 13:34

A. Jesus’ Love was Unconditional

B. Jesus’ Love was Unselfish Rom 8:32; 1 Jn 3:16-17; Lk 17:30-37

Jesus “spared not His own life, but freely gave it up for us all.” Romans 8:32

C. Jesus’ Love was Undeniable 1 Jn 3:18; Mat 25:34-36; Mat 7:12; Jn 13:34; 1 Jn 3:18

“Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.” 1 John 3:18