This Is How We Know What Love Is

Broadway Church Sermon Series

THIS IS HOW WE KNOW WHAT LOVE IS

Week 1

(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

I. WHAT IS LOVE? (ACCORDING TO JOHN)

A. Love is for us.

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.” (1 John 3:16a)

i. Love is a .

B. Love is of us.

“And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” (1 John 3:16b)

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-3)

C. Love is to us.

“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” (1 John 3:17-18)

i. is not enough. Seeing needs .

“Jesus is not giving us a new list of things to do; He is telling us the kind of person we must become.” (Dallas Willard)

Today’s “Big Idea”…

God does not want to your ,

God wants to your .

II. WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF A TRANSFORMED LIFE?

“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'” (Luke 10:30-35)

A. Love of you are.

B. Love becomes an .

i. is the great enemy of .

ii. Acting in love requires and .

“Love is painfully time-consuming. And hurry doesn’t have time.”

(John Mark Comer)