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Sunday, December 11 2016

ADVENT ~ Week 3

What is your FAVORITE Christmas MOVIE?TALK AMONGST YOURSLEVES…

Sunday, December 11 2016

ADVENT ~ Week 3

AGAPE/AGAPAW(agaph/agapaw)- Used 320x in the N.T. - Used 106x in John’s Gospel- Active love; value; esteem; delight in…

PHILEO (filew)- Used 55x in the N.T- Used 21x in John’s Gospel- Affection; kindness; deep, abiding friendship…

LOVE in THE NEW TESTAMENT

…(then) one of (the Pharisees), a lawyer, asked (Jesus) a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest, and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’On these two commandments hang all the law, and the prophets.”

MATTHEW 22:2

One of the scribes…asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” Jesus answered, “The first is: ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

MARK 12:28-31

Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit life in the age to come?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”

LUKE 10:25-28

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

JOHN 13:34-35

WHO DID GOD SHOW LOVE TOIN THE CHRISTMAS STORY?- The Poor (Mary/Joseph)

- The Rejected (Shepherds)

- The Marginalized (Magi)

WHAT SHOULD THIS MEAN FOR US TODAY? LOVE FOR…- The homeless- The immigrant- The outcast- The poor- The “other”

WHAT SHOULD THIS MEAN FOR US TODAY? LOVE FOR…- The homeless- The immigrant- The outcast- The poor- The “other”- ONE ANOTHER…

We all have access to the following “capitals”:- Spiritual- Relational- Physical- Intellectual- Financial

Ask God to show you how to leverageone-or-more of these capitals to showLOVE to someone else this week…

SOUL TRAINING EXERCISE

One of the scribes…asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” Jesus answered, “The first is: ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

BENEDICTION (Mark 12)