Walking in Love: Like Christ
We are called to "Walk in Love" and given Jesus as an example as One who "loved" us and "gave Himself for us". How do we follow that model?
Romans 13:9b and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
1 Corinthians 13:2b but have not love, I am nothing.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Hebrews 1:2-3 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 10:17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
Sermon Discussion Questions
How does Jesus model for us how to "walk in love"?
What does it mean that He "gave Himself for us"?
In what specific ways should we love as He did and sacrificially give ourselves for others?
How can we do this (think "do not be drunk" and "fire foam")?
