Commanded to LOVE

Types of LOVE in Greek

1. EROS - REFERS TO PHYSICAL OR SEXUAL LOVE.

2. PHILEO - MEANS WARM AFFECTION OR FRIENDSHIP.

3. STORGĒ, MEANS “FAMILY DEVOTION.”

4. AGAPĒ - IS THE SACRIFICIAL, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD.

We are commanded to LOVE

1. God Mark 12:28-31

2. Ourselves Mark 12:28-31 (assumed)

3. Neighbor Mark 12:28-31; Luke 10:25-37

4. One another John 13:31-38

5. Enemies Matt 5:43-44; Luke 6:27-28

John 13:34-35 Love One Another

1.John 15:12-13

2.Romans 13:8

3.1 Peter 1:22

4.1 John 4:7

1. Sacrificially

1 John 4:10
This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

2. Unconditionally

Romans 8:38-39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

3. Personally

John 10:3
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

4. Impartially

Romans 2:11
For God shows no partiality.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-7,13
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 John 3:16-18
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1. There are times our love will be intentional and planned out

2. There are times our love will be unplanned and Holy Spirit prompted

Father, through your Holy Spirit, please use me today,

- to encourage someone,
- to share Your love with someone,
- to sow, water and/or reap the seed of the gospel in someone life.

In Jesus’ name, Amen

Romans 5:5
and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.