The Gospel in Action | FOR 2025
1 John 3:11-19
When you read the New Testament, when it comes to following Jesus the ESSENTIALS are incredibly SIMPLE.
MEMORABLE and ACTIONABLE.
“A new COMMAND I give you: I want you to LOVE one another the way that I have loved you. By this EVERYONE will know you are MY disciples, if you LOVE one another.” – John 13:34-35
A version of our faith that made people OUTSIDE of the faith want it to be true
BEFORE they were able to believe that it is true.
1 John 3:11-19 (pg. 1,901)
V.11: “This is the message YOU heard from the BEGINNING: We should LOVE one another.”
v.14: “We KNOW that we have passed from death to life BECAUSE, we LOVE each other.
Anyone who does NOT love remains in DEATH.”
v.15: “Anyone who HATES a brother or a sister is a MURDERER, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in them.”
v.16: “And this is HOW we know what LOVE is: Jesus Christ laid down HIS life for US.”
And we ought to lay down OUR LIVES for our brothers and sisters.
Your neighbor is ANYONE who has a need YOU can meet.
v.17: “If ANYONE has material possessions and sees his brother or sister in NEED, but has no pity on them, how can the LOVE of GOD be in them?”
Jesus gave His LIFE for that person in NEED.
v.18: “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech, but with ACTIONS and in truth.”
v.19: “This is how we KNOW that we BELONG to the truth, and how we et our hearts at REST in His presence.”
We believe EVERYBODY matters to God, whether God matters to them or not.
Everybody in America thinks something when they hear the word CHURCH.
You know what they should think?