Title: Love One another (1 John 04:7-11)
Content "Let's love each other!" It's so common and everyone knows it. But I don't think there is anything as precious and beautiful as these words. Because if you remove the element of love from this world, that place is hell.
No matter how good you are, you can never be happy without love, even if you live in a mid-size car and wear rich food and expensive clothes.
As we all know, Christianity is a religion of love. The cross, the symbol of Christianity, is a symbol of love.
Romans 5:8 God demonstrates his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
The cross of the Lord symbolizes God's love for me, an unforgivable sinner. Therefore, whenever we look at the cross, we should think of God's amazing love and feel a burning emotion and gratitude in our hearts. look at the text
1 John 4:9 This was how the love of God was revealed to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1 John 4:11 Beloved, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
How right is it? If you have been loved, you should give love.
John 13:34 I give you a new commandment: Love one another, as I have
There are ten commandments given through Moses in the Old Testament times. If you commit any of these, you will be treated as a serious criminal. However, in this day and age, there are very few people who do not live according to the word of love given by the Lord as a new commandment, but consider it a sin.
That's weird. If we don't love each other, it's the same as committing a serious crime like a murderer who told us not to kill. However, in reality, the person who commits fraud and murder is treated as a great criminal, and he thinks nothing of himself who does not love others.
keep in mind “Love one another” is a commandment. It does not matter whether the commandments may or may not be done, it is something that must be done. how to love
The standard of love - The standard of love is yourself.
Matthew 22:39 The second is like that, saying, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Let's see how much we love ourselves.
When it's hot, it finds a cool place, when it's cold, it finds a warm place, when it's hungry, it feeds, when it's thirsty, it drinks, when it's tired, it lays down, when it's sick, it takes medicine.
I believe that the saying “Love your neighbor as yourself” is the same as saying to love others as you do for yourself.
The Lord does not stop here, but goes one step further and teaches us to love those who hate us, slander, and slander us, even our enemies who are our enemies.
But you don't have to go far to love your enemies. Let's love those closest to us first. Let's find out in the Bible how families of faith can become families overflowing with love and happiness in May's Family Month.
The village we count on tells us what is far and near.
Who is the closest to us? Roughly speaking, the relationship between parents and children is one. Siblings are second-degree cousins. However, there are things that are closer than between father and son or brotherhood. What is it?
The couple has no kinship. it's uncle A man and a woman who were different from each other joined in love and became the closest one body in the world. However, if the 夫婦 love each other, they become one and the closest. But what happens if there is no love? Therefore, the couple should really love each other. how to love
First, listen to your wives.
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, who himself is the Savior of the body.
A husband's success is in his wife's hands. Don't complain that it's a bit difficult, but respect your husband's opinion if possible. “The nickname of love is understanding,” said the Indian poet Tagol.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live alone in a hut than to live in a large house with a quarrelsome woman.
Don't quarrel with your husband over small things, don't scratch and understand him.
Listen to the next husbands.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.
No matter who she trusts when she gets married, she believes that she lives by looking at her parents-in-law and looking at her husband, only believing in her husband.
But if my husband doesn't care for me, love me, and take care of me, who will I trust?
Don't berate her because she doesn't take care of her parents-in-law, but let the husband understand his wife first and give him plenty of love. Then you will get to know your mother in law.
And the water flows from top to bottom. Just as God loves humans first and parents love their children first, parents-in-law must love their daughter-in-law first.
“A mother-in-law should treat her daughter-in-law as if she were a daughter.” If you think about what your daughter would do first, there is nothing to be sad about. If you teach with love what you do not know, it will follow.
“A daughter-in-law treats her mother-in-law as if she were her biological mother.” If you think about what your mother-in-law would do first, there is nothing to be sad about. How good it is that you gave birth to my beloved husband and raised me and gave it to me.... Hallelujah I believe that people of faith will not be able to exist only if there is a problem of 姑夫間. Married couples should love each other sincerely, not only for their parents but especially for their children.
When I researched problem children at school, it was found that most of them were children who wanted to see their parents always fighting and arguing because they did not have a good relationship. You don't know how important parental responsibility is.
Let's love as a family of faith.
People of faith should love each other. We believe that we are a community of love formed in Jesus and one family in faith.
Blood is thicker than water. Yes. That is why brotherhood is so precious.
However, I believe that a family of faith who shares the holy blood of Jesus is more precious than a physical brother who shares blood contaminated with sin.
What was the first phenomenon that appeared when the early church was filled with the Holy Spirit?
Of course, the gift of tongues and the gift of salvation appeared, but the most important was the gift of love. They served and loved each other. As a result, many souls hungry for love repented and came to the church because they wanted to receive such love.
Acts 2:47 And they praised God and received praise from all the people, and the Lord added to the number of those who were being saved day by day.
Although the chaebols and the powerful did not gather together and were not a gathering of educated people, they loved each other passionately and achieved a remarkable revival.
We also believe that Hangil Church will naturally revive when love for each other is restored, even if there are no special people. “I love you with all my heart in Jesus”
Love is so precious and powerful.
I believe that love is more precious than the words of angels, tongues and alms. Gifts without love, alms without love, faith and service without love are meaningless like a ringing chime. If there is no love between believers in faith, no matter how well they do other things, it means nothing. “Let’s love each other”
Conclusion Results of love-If you love, your faults will be covered.
1 Peter 4:7 The end of all things is near; therefore, be sober and sober, and pray.
1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love one another zealously, for love covers a multitude of sins.
All humans are imperfect beings. Therefore, there are transgressions and sins. If there is no fault, the person is not a person. The problem lies in how I see the other person.
Seeing through the eyes of love, all faults are hidden and you look lovely. Conversely, if you look through the eyes of hatred, even good things look like meme and bad things.
The eyes of hate are like a microscope, magnifying and exaggerating things that cannot be seen normally by a hundred times or thousand times.
The strange thing is that most people aren't interested in praising other people for their good points, but when they see other people's faults and flaws, they get excited and say, "Yeah, how".
Because love has no eyes.
But the eyes of a loved one are like a telescope.
No matter how beautiful a mountain is, if you look closely, you can see a lot of garbage. Even if you look through a telescope from a distance, you can see a beautiful mountain.
Please do not try to look for faults with the eyes of a microscope when we, the members of Hangil Church, look at others, but look at the good things with the eyes of love like a telescope, and cover all faults to grow a house church of faith that is full of love and grace
I pray that the people who are hungry for love in the Jowon-dong area will come to visit us on their own when they see our love for each other. Like the Early Church, I pray that you will become a church that glorifies God as a revitalizing church where the number of people who are being saved increases every day.