The Importance Of Loving One Another

THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING ONE ANOTHER

OUTLINE

1) THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT - LOVE ONE ANOTHER

2) ALL THE COMMANDMENTS ARE CONTAINED IN THE ONE COMMANDMENT TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF

3) THE NEW COMMANDMENT OF CHRIST - LOVE OTHERS AS CHRIST LOVED US

4) GOD IS LOVE AND ALL THOSE WHO KNOW GOD SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

5) QUALITIES OF TRUE LOVE

6) WE MUST LOVE OUR ENEMIES

7) WE MUST GROW IN OUR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER

EPILOGUE

THE HOLY SPIRIT FILLS OUR HEARTS WITH THE LOVE OF GOD

THE MESSAGE

THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING ONE ANOTHER

Loving one another is very important in the sight of God.

In the New testament there are atleast 226 verses on love.

Out of this 33 verses are about God's love towards us.

51 verses are about our love towards God.

23 verses are about what we should not love.

But 119 verses are about loving one another.

This shows the great importance of loving one another.

The Lord Jesus prayed that we should all be one so that the world may believe that he was sent by God.

JOHN 17: 21 - 22

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,

that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

1) THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT - LOVE ONE ANOTHER

The love of God towards us and our love towards God should lead us to love one another. Loving one another is part of the greatest commandment. We must love God with all our hearts and we must love one another. God has commanded us to love one another. Therefore it is a serious disobedience of God's commandments when we fail to love one another.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

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MATTHEW 22:39-40

And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

MARK 12:31-34

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

“Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.

To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

MATTHEW 19:16-19

Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

“Which ones?” he inquired. Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony,

honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

JOHN 15:17

This is my command: Love each other.

1 JOHN 3:23-24

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

2 JOHN 1:5

And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.

2) ALL THE COMMANDMENTS ARE CONTAINED IN THE ONE COMMANDMENT TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF

When we love one another we fulfill all the commandments. When we love one another , we will not do any evil to one another. We will not commit adultery or murder to steal or covet or harm others in any way. Thus we will fulfill all the commandments when we love one another.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

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ROMANS 13:9-10

The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

GALATIANS 5:14

For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

JAMES 2:8

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.