Title: Love Your Neighbor, Love Yourself
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There is a saying, “Saving others is the way to save oneself.”
Love of neighbor and love of self are one.
To love your neighbor is to love yourself.
However, there are some things that we Christians are easy to misunderstand. Because we have always been taught to 'love God and love our neighbor', we often neglect our self-love. In particular, because Jesus said, 'If you would come after me, deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me', some people think that loving themselves is a sin before God and abuse or hate themselves, which is very wrong. It is different from saying to deny yourself and cherishing and loving yourself. Rather, the Christian faith begins with loving and cherishing the me whom God loved. The Christian faith teaches us to cherish and love ourselves in good health.
Who is the most precious and precious person in the world? ? After all, the most precious and precious person is yourself. A world without me is meaningless. However, there are so many people who live without loving their precious self.
In today's text, Jesus said, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' The meaning of these words is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. In other words, this means that you cannot love yourself and you cannot love your neighbor.
It is a lie and hypocrisy to say that you love your neighbor and serve God without loving yourself. When I truly love myself and cherish myself, I can love and respect my neighbors and serve God rightly.
So how can we love ourselves?
To love yourself, you must first know someone.
Self-love begins when you know someone.
Ephesians 2:10 says, “We are his workmanship.” The word 'made' is the Greek word 'poiema'. It means 'poem' in English. He created a poem as beautiful as a poem. In the English Bible, the word 'poiema' was used to mean a masterpiece. It is said that each of us is “a masterpiece created by God.”
Each of us is a work of art, not a product.
I need to remember that I am the only one in this world. Out of the world's 6.7 billion people, I...