Alice Drive Baptist Church
How to Live: Learn to Love July 25
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 NIV
· Big Idea: Whoever teaches you how to love determines how you love.
· What if God taught you to love?
· 9 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you…
· …for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
· “Heavenly Father, teach us to love.”
· John 3:16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
· Love gives
· Psalm 86:15 - But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
· Love prizes the relationship.
· Romans 8:38-39 - 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
· Love conquers.
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· What does God need to teach you about love?
· Is our church loving?
· 10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia.
· Do we love like Jesus?
· John 15:12-13 - 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
· Are we encouraging?
· Hebrews 10:24-25 - 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
· Are we doing good for each other?
· Galatians 6:10 - 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
· What are you doing to make ADBC a loving church?
· Is your love growing?
· Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more.
· Heavenly Father, grow my love.
· Matthew 22:39b - …Love your neighbor as yourself…
· Leviticus 19: 33-34 - 33 “‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
· Matthew 5:44 - But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…
· Which direction does your love need to grow?
· 9 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more