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1 John 3:16 · BSB
3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
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…does. It's never convenient. But it's so good. And it's so right. And it brings hope and warmth to a lost and hurting world. Why don't you read1 John chapter 3, verse 16 through 18? As we're finishing up this morning, if you heard me tell you you need to be more compassionate, that's probably the wrong thing for you to take…
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…we're still sinners. While we are the enemies of the cross, in that moment, God demonstrated his love for us while we were there, he died for us.1 John chapter 3 verse 16says, This is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And then finally, in 1 John chapter 4, verse 19, John says, We love…
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…what you do. Scripture never once defines love as an internal state. Watch what happens when the Bible actually wants to tell you what love is.1 John 3:16. This is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. That's the definition of love. John doesn't say this is how we know God…
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…where I want to insist that in order to understand love, you need to look at and actually know the person of Jesus. Um, here's how John puts it in1 John chapter 3, verse 16. This is my favorite verse in all of Scripture. John says, this is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought…
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…cost you. It always does. Because the Bible tells us that biblical love doesn't stop at, I'll pray for you. Look at what the apostle John writes in1 John chapter 3, verse 16. He says, And this is how we have come to know love. That he laid down his life for us, and so we should also lay down our lives for our brothers…
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…to come to our senses, so that we could see you for who you really are. In the name of Jesus, amen. Let's finish with this verse from John,1 John 3, verse 16. This is how we have come to know love that he laid down his life for us that is good news.
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…Cost us something. Loving people has a cost. It's not always convenient. It's not just what you tell somebody. It's also what you show someone.1 John chapter 3 verse 16says, "We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers." Listen to verse…
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…Jesus. So in the Gospel, then we have these themes, but then what about his letters? Well, we know already that if you read John 3:16 and look upfirst John 3:16, you're getting roughly the same thing. Now, John didn't write in chapters and. He didn't write in verses. But isn't it amazing, though, that…
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[SPEAKER_00]: First John chapter 3, give you guys a second to get there and then we'll read it together. [SPEAKER_00]:First John chapter 3 verses 11 through 18verses 11 through 18. [SPEAKER_00]: First 11 says, for this is the message that you have heard from the beginning. [SPEAKER_00]: Then we should…
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…the gift of salvation is free to us, but it costs Jesus everything. If, like the pop group foreigner, we want to know what love is, is like this.1 John 3:16, "By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers." So this great cost speaks of the…
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…yeah, the uh let me talk to my wife, right? Come up with an excuse, and you hold back and you leave them destitute. That's what's happening here.1 John chapter 3, verses 16 through 18, uh, I'll just read those real quickly. He echoes the same language of Deuteronomy when he says this. By this we know love that Christ laid down…
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…loves you. It's beyond what he's saying. It's not from a pure heart. Hallelujah. So we must love one another from a pure heart. From a pure heart.1 John 3 verse 161 John 3 verse 16 Talking about the love of God. By this we know love because He laid down His life for us and we also us to lay down our life for…
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…park like prey, but he goes after you in that same sort of way. [SPEAKER_00]: He's love for you is ferocious, it's single-minded. [SPEAKER_00]: Um,first John chapter 3 verse 16says this, this is how we know what love is. [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. [SPEAKER_00]: That's not guarded. [SPEAKER_00]:…
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…father. The heart of Christianity is that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and for mine. And that's our example. The Apostle John writes in1 John 3:16, He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. Our service is most like Jesus' when it's sacrificial. We can't…
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…lives for. our brothers and our sisters. And we'll get to that passage in the next. We'll get to that passage in the next. Let's even go there now.1 John 3, verse 16 to 18. 1 John 3, 16 to 18. So we're doing 16 first. It says, by this, are we there? Please, let's get there so we can do it together. You see, by this we…
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…As practical as practical can be, The Bible is so practical to life. Amen. Basic. How do you know questions. And now the question we turn to infirst John 3 verses 11 through 18is how do we know how we are to relate one to another? How does God want us living as believers toward one another? How do we know what that looks…
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…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 3:16-18) Let’s pray together “Lord Jesus, I thank you for your mercy and generosity toward me in my sin and failure. I was destitute but you redeemed me…
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…to it. You can't help but be overwhelmed, overcome by that kind of love. Because the world and even people don't love you that way all the time.1 John 3:16. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. Pay for your stuff. Except love,…
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…it is hard. But God says, there's help. Like if you want to know what love is what love does and how love different is possible. John says this infirst John 3:16and so we know and rely on the love, God has for us. Begin with God's love for you a God. Who loved you? Different, a God who loved you from…
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…and truth [notice the connection between love and truth]. 19 We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him. (1 John 3:16–19NASB) We will know by this that we are of the truth. How will we know that we are of the truth? If we have love for the brethren. That's the…
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