Love: Love Discerns
1 John 2:15-17
Pastor Bob Hiller
6/28/2009
The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
1 John 2:17
1. The Christian life of love is a life that ____________.
2. We must discern that _______________ teaching about God's love and grace is woefully ______________.
3. Worldly thinking is whatever _____________ from God's gracious and almighty hand and _____________ humanity to the place of God.
4. When we hate those things that ____________ God, we actually learn to love the world _____________!
Scripture Readings
1 John 2:15-17
Take It With You!
As we spend our Summer growing in the love of God, it will be helpful for everyone to be reading through 1 John daily. Here helpful insights will be offered to aid in your study.
Quotes on Love
1 Corinthians 1:31b Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.
Matthew 7:15-20 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Because God has already laid the foundation of our fellowship, because God has bound us together in on ebody with other Christians in Jesus Christ, long before we entered into common life with them, we enter into that common life not as demanders but as thankful recipients. We thank God for what He has done for us. We thank God for giving us brethren who live by His call, by His forgiveness and His promise. We do not complain of what God does not give us; we rather thank God for what He does give us daily.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
If we deny that we are sinners, other than in generalities or through euphemisms, forgiveness has no meaning for us. And so we are incapacitated for what we are created and saved to do best, to love: to love God, to love Henry, to love Emily.
Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
