LOVE
DEMONSTRATES
BREAD
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it
does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It
is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. 6 Love does
not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. 1
Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NIV)
12 My command is this: Love
each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life
for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:12-14 (NIV)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NIV)
16 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.
1 John 3:16 (NIV)
9 This
is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. 10 This
is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear
friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we
love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1
John 4:9-12 (NIV)
1 It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the
time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved
his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. 2 The evening meal was being served, and the
devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all
things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
4 so he got up from the meal, took
off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and
began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was
wrapped around him. John 13:1-5 (NIV)
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from
God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love. 9 This is how
God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that
we might live through him. 10 This
is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear
friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John
4:7-11 (NIV)
19 We love because he first loved us. 1
John 4:19 (NIV)
BUTTER
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” Charles Spurgeon
“From God’s perspective, one hidden act of
repentance, one little gesture of selfless love, one moment of true forgiveness
is all that is needed to bring God from His throne to run to His returning son
and to fill the heavens with sounds of divine joy.” Henri J. M. Nouwen
“Love
for God and obedience to God are so completely involved in each other that any
one of them implies the other too.” F. F.
Bruce
“He
who is filled with love is filled with God Himself.” Augustine
“The principle of
sacrifice is that we choose to do or to suffer what apart from our love we
should not choose to do or suffer.” William Temple
“Can a man love
God while ignoring the need of his brother?”
Frances J. Roberts
“He alone loves the
Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.” Venerable
Bede
“The sign of our
professed love for the gospel is the measure of sacrifice we are prepared to
make in order to help its progress.” Ralph Martin
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.” Thomas Merton
“He
does much who loves much.” Thomas a Kempis
“Love one another that it may at last be said of Christians as it was at first: ‘Behold how they love one another.’” Ralph Venning
“Love one another that it may at last be said of Christians as it was at first: ‘Behold how they love one another.’” Ralph Venning
“If
I really love God, my innate and persistent selfishness will have received its
death blow.” Alexander
Smellie
“Love, like
warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our
brethren.” Martin
Luther
“All
the commandments of God are commandments of love tending to our real good and
great happiness; far from being grievous to those who have faith and love, the
practice thereof is life and peace. The
world may think it a grievous burden; but this is a great mistake indeed. Sin is grievous. In hatred, envy, anger, revenge, pride, there
is nothing but torment and slavery; but in love there is a sweet rest and
pleasure. Thus a sinner always punishes
himself, and is robbed of great peace and blessing, by transgressing the
commandments of God.” K. H.
Von Bogatzky
“Let
us note how far from satisfactory is the state of those who are content with
sound doctrinal opinions, and orthodox correct views of the Gospel, while in
their daily life they give way to ill-temper, ill-nature, malice, envy,
quarrelling, squabbling, bickering, surliness, passion, snappish language, and
crossness of word and manner. Such
persons, whether they know it or not, are daily proclaiming that they are not
Christ’s disciples. It is nonsense to
talk about justification, and regeneration, and election, and conversion, and the uselessness of works, unless people can see in us
practical Christian love.” John Charles Ryle
“The colored sunsets and starry
heavens, the beautiful mountains and the shining seas, the fragrant woods and
painted flowers, are not half so beautiful as a soul that is serving Jesus out
of love in the wear and tear of common, unpoetic life.” Faber
HEART
SAVOR
- · Biblical love never fails.
- · I am to love others as Christ has loved me. This is action not merely the mirage of feelings and emotions.
- · God loves and gives – I am to do likewise.
