A Life of Love

 
Faith�in�Christ            God�Living�In�Us             Obeying�God

Loving�Each�Other

Having�Whatever�We�Ask

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^1Jhn3:16 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. ¹⁷If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? ¹⁸Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. ¹⁹This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence ²⁰whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. ²¹Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God ²²and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. ²³And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. ²⁴Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.


Jesus� command is to love each other:

^Jh13:34 �A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. ³⁵By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another.�

^Jh15:12 �My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.�

^Jh15:17 �This is my command: Love each other.�

Love and obeying Jesus:

^Jh14:15 �If you love me, you will obey what I command.�

^Jh14:21 �Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. .....�

^Jh14:23 �If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. .....�

^1Jh5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. .....

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^Jh15:14 �You are my friends if you do what I command.�

^Jh15:9 �As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.�

^1Jhn2:3 We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. ⁴The man who says, �I know him,� but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: ⁶Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

^1Jhn3:5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. ⁶No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. ⁷Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. ⁸He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. ⁹No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. ¹¹This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. ..... ¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

^1Jhn5:18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.

^1Jhn1:5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. ⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. ⁸If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

^1Jhn2:1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. ²He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

It all begins with having faith in Jesus:

^Jh14:12 �I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. ¹⁴You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.�

^1Jhn5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. ²This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. ³This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, ⁴for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. ⁵Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

^Gal5:6For in Christ Jesus ..... The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

More on Love, Faith, Obedience:

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Faith in Jesus Christ

Word of God through Peter

Other aspects of loving God and people:

Prayer

Christian Relationships

Walking the Walk

Glorifying God

Rejoicing in God

Remain in Jesus and bear fruit, and have whatever you ask:

^Jh15:7 �If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. ⁸This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.�

^Jh15:16 �You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. ¹⁷This is my command: Love each other.�

^1Jhn5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. ¹⁴This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ¹⁵And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him.

Reasons to have �whatever we ask�:

^Jh14:13 �And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.�

^Jh16:23 �In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. ²⁴Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.�

The link between love and unity:

^Jh14:21 �Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.�

^Jh14:23 �If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.�

^Jh17:20 �My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ²²I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: ²³I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. ²⁴Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. ²⁵Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ²⁶I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.�

^Jh14:19 �Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.�

^1Jhn4:7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. ¹³We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

^1Jhn4:15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. ¹⁶And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. ..... ²¹And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

More about the relationship between Jesus and the Father, and us:

^Jh14:9 �..... Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, �Show us the Father�? ¹⁰Don�t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.�

^Jh14:6 �I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.�

Jesus praying to the Father:

^Jh17:3 �Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.�

Powerful prayer that is good to pray regularly:

Lord, deeply stir our hearts with your love by the Holy Spirit, and bring us to complete unity. Give us the grace to minister.

Father, in full assurance of faith, believing without any doubt that you will do what I ask, I ask you to teach me to love others the way Jesus loved us, sacrificially, denying self and serving.

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Note: Aqua verses in quotes are the words of Jesus Christ.

Scripture quotations are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION�. NIV�. Copyright�1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.