The Love Law
Text: Mat 28:18-20
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
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Mat 22:36 Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
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Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not
kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou
shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
Is the Love of God in you?
Is God in you?
If we do not have Love we do not have God!!!
If we do not have Love we are nothing!
1Jo 2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1Jo 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1Jo 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and
walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that
darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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1Jo 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is
a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can
he love God whom he hath not seen?
1Jo 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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1Jo 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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1Jo 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life,
because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth
in death.
1Jo 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know
that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in
him.
1Jo 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid
down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the
brethren.
1Jo 3:17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother
have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in him?
1Jo 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed (action) and in truth.
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1Jo 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1Jo 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him.
1Jo 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved
us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
1Jo 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1Jo 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Pursue and follow after Love! (1Co 14:1)
Be like God and Love. (Eph. 5:1-2)GNB Since you are God's dear
children, you must try to be like him. Your life must be controlled by
love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us….
The character of Love:
read 1Corin. 13:1-13AMP
1Co 13:4MSG Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than
for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
1Co 13:5MSG Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me
first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of
others,
1Co 13:6 It isn't happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth.
1Co 13:7MSG Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always
looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
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1Co 13:4GW Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn't jealous. It doesn't sing its own praises. It isn't arrogant.
1Co 13:5GW It isn't rude. It doesn't think about itself. It isn't irritable. It doesn't keep track of wrongs.
1Co 13:6GW It isn't happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth.
1Co 13:7GW Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up.
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1Co 13:4CEV Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or
1Co 13:5CEV rude. Love isn't selfish or quick tempered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do.
1Co 13:6CEV Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil.
1Co 13:7CEV Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting.
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If you are really born-again, the Spirit of God is inside of
you with the Love of God; God is Love, and He won’t make you obey
the law of Love. You must yield yourself to the Spirit of God and
the Love of God that is already inside you.
Jesus prayed:
John 17:26 …that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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Rom 5:5 ……… the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Paul prayed:
Eph 3:17GW Then Christ will live in you through faith. I also
pray that love may be the ground into which you sink your roots and on
which you have your foundation. (KJV=rooted and grounded in Love)
Eph 3:18GW This way, with all of God's people you will be able to understand how wide, long, high, and deep his love is.
Eph 3:19GW You will know Christ's love, which goes far beyond any
knowledge. I am praying this so that you may be completely filled with
God.
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Phi 1:9 I pray that your love will keep on growing more and more, together with true knowledge and perfect judgment,
Other notes
ROMANS 13:8-10NLT 8 Pay all your debts, except the debt of love
for others. You can never finish paying that! If you love your
neighbor, you will fulfill all the requirements of God’s law. 9 For the
commandments against adultery and murder and stealing and coveting—and
any other commandment—are all summed up in this one commandment: “Love
your neighbor as yourself.”10 Love does no wrong to anyone, so love
satisfies all of God’s requirements
Lev 19:18 Do not take revenge on others or continue to hate them,
but love your neighbors as you love yourself. I am the LORD.
Commentary of John 13:34
Joh 13:34 - A new commandment I give unto you,.... As parents, when
they take their leave of their children, in their dying moments, give
them proper instructions and orders, and lay their dying injunctions
(commands and wishes) on them, so Christ taking his leave of his
disciples, gives them his; which were, that they
love one another: as brethren in the same family, children of the same
Father, and fellow disciples with each other; by keeping and agreeing
together, praying one for another, bearing one another's burdens,
forbearing and forgiving one another, admonishing each other, and
building up one another in faith and holiness: and this he calls "a new
commandment"; that is, a very excellent one.
as I have loved you, that ye also love one another; as Christ has
loved his people freely, notwithstanding all their unworthiness and
ungratefulness, so should they love one another, though there may be
many things in them observable, which are disagreeable; as Christ loves
all his children without any distinction, so should they love one
another, whether poor or rich, weaker or stronger, lesser or greater
believers; and as Christ loves them not in word only, but in deed and
in truth, so should they love one another with a pure heart fervently,
and by love serve one another.
Agape (greek)
Thayer Definition:
1) brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence
2) love feasts
STRONG'S DEFINITION:
ag-ah'-pay agape
From G25; love, that is, affection or benevolence; specifically (plural) charity ([-ably]), dear, love.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Vine’s dictionary:
"Christian love, whether exercised toward the brethren, or toward men
generally, is not an impulse from the feelings, it does not always run
with the natural inclinations, nor does it spend itself only upon those
for whom some affinity is discovered. Love seeks the welfare of all,
Rom_15:2, and works no ill to any, 13:8-10; love seeks opportunity to
do good to 'all men, and especially toward them that are of the
household of the faith,' Gal_6:10.
Col 3:12 You are the people of God; he loved you and chose you
for his own. So then, you must clothe yourselves with compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Col 3:13 Be tolerant with one another and forgive one another
whenever any of you has a complaint against someone else. You must
forgive one another just as the Lord has forgiven you.
Col 3:14 And to all these qualities add love, which binds all things together in perfect unity.