Today’s Scripture: 1 John 3-4

Pages 1022-1023 in our guest Bibles.

“We will recommend that our government

NOT intervene as the risks are too

high and ALL THAT IS HERE

ARE HUMANS.”

Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yaxd. April 18th, 2010

Queens, NY

APATHYap·a·thy 

=

a state of indifferencelack of interest or concern

“Meh. I could not care less.”default mode: ME

our default mode should be...

“we” instead “me”

What would it look like if we were DEVOTED

to one another?

“LOVEONE

ANOTHER”

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For this is the message that you

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have heard from the beginning, thatwe should LOVE ONE ANOTHER...

Beloved, let us LOVE ONE

1 JOHN 4:7-8

ANOTHER, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born

who does not love does not knowof God and knows God. Anyone

God, because GOD IS LOVE....

In this the LOVE of God was made

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manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so thatwe might live through him....

For God so LOVED the world that he

GAVE his only Son, that whoever

believes in him might not perish but

have eternal life.~ Jesus of NazarethGospel of John, 3:16

In this is love, not that we loved

1 JOHN 4:10

God but that HE LOVED US andsent his Son to be the propitiationfor our sins....

For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though

perhaps for a good person one would

dare even to die--but God shows his LOVE

for us in that while we were still sinners,

Christ died for us.

~ The Apostle Paul Romans 5:7-8

Beloved, if God so loved us, we

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also OUGHT to LOVE ONEANOTHER....

~ Jesus of NazarethGospel of John 13:34

A NEW command I give to you, that you love one another...

A NEW command I give to you, that you love one another:

JUST AS I loved you, YOU ALSO are to love one another.

~ Jesus of NazarethGospel of John 13:34

We LOVE one another this way because

He first LOVED us this way.

[ REAL LOVE is COSTLY ]

1Stir your

LONGINGS

for things to be

DIFFERENT

Image: Andreas Levers

Now concerning brotherly LOVE, you have no need of anyone to write you for you yourselves have been taught by God to

LOVE ONE ANOTHER. But we urge you, brothers, to do this MORE and MORE.

The Apostle Paul1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

2Courageously

diagnose the problem

hint:it’s you & me( )

image: Jana Blašková

“Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere

brotherly love, love one another

EARNESTLY from a pure heart.”

The Apostle Peter1 Peter 1:22

“...EARNESTLY...”

image: Jean Pierre Belot

3Plug in

to the

Power Source

image: Juniperimages

God gives you commands you

cannot keep SO THAT

you may know what you ought to ask of him. Augustine (354-430)

4Participatein the Dress Rehearsal

image: Tracy Whiteside

“…the paradise of love, where

everything is filled with love, and EVERYTHING CONSPIRES

to promote and kindle it, and keep up its flame, and nothing ever interrupts it….”

Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)

“Heaven: A Worldof Love”

5Leave your mark

on the world--this week!

image: Thomas Guignard

By this we know LOVE, that he laid down his life for

us, and we OUGHT to lay

down our lives for our brothers.

The Apostle John1 John 3:16

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, IF you have love for one another.

Jesus of NazarethThe Gospel of John, 13:35

Thomas Guignard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19614198@N00/3159378171/

Andreas Levers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67499195@N00/2071538655/

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other:

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Jean Pierre Belot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36778241@N06/4418828535/