Jason Hunter I John 2:7-11, 3;14-18, 4:7-11, 4:20-21 The Birthmark The Paramount evidence of our spiritual rebirth is LOVE. Four Nonnegotiables on Love Old and New John 13:34-35 *Love for others is a Mandate ~ Command Somebody is going to die John 15:12-13 Other Gospels = Matthew 16:24-26, Luke 14:25-27, Mark 8:34-35 Who will it be? Old me or New me Ephesians 4:22-24 *Love for others is a meekness I see Love ~ I am Loved ~ I love God's Love = Agape We must Learn it We must choose to do it *Love for others is mimicked The Equation of Love ~ BL=GL Brother-ward Love = God-ward Love *Love for others is a measure I John 2:7-11; 3:14-18; 4:7-11; 4:20-21 7 Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. 8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shinging. 9 The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. 10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.
