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Love One Another

Love One Another

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Our love for fellow believers, or the lack of the same, has eternal consequences. Good morning. Forty-five years ago, on May 17th, those of you that are Norwegian know the significance of that date, I preached my first sermon at Calvary. Calvary was a lot smaller then. We met in southeast Rochester we had about 150 people who attended on a regular basis. And I was actually a pastor at the time, a small church in southeast Minnesota. And we did what was called a pulpit exchange, where the pastors went to a different church to preach for that particular Sunday. So, I was invited to preach here at Calvary. And I remember the passage that I preached on was Ephesians chapter five, verse one, be imitators of God as dearly loved children. And I talked about the fact that children love to imitate. And they learn, in spite of our efforts to teach them good manners. As part of my message, I asked the congregation, I’m going to ask you to do a couple of imitations. First, I’d like you to tell me, what does a cow say? (Moo.) That’s pretty good. Pretty good. Better than the first service. Here’s another easy one. What does a cat say? (Meow.) Okay, now here’s a little bit harder one. Imitate God. Imitate God. That’s a much harder challenge, isn’t it? Well, today we have a challenge placed in front of us from the book of First John. First John 3 verse 11, where he says we should love one another. When Linus told his sister Lucy that he wanted to become a doctor, she laughed and said, you a doctor? That’ll never happen. You know why? Because you don’t love mankind. Linus replied, I love mankind. It’s people I can’t stand. First John 3:11 says, for this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. And as we look at these verses this morning, I would like to suggest that our love for one another or the lack of the same, has eternal consequences. Our love for one another, or the lack of the same has eternal consequences. Our passage is First John 3, verses 11 through 15. We’ve been preaching through First John since April, we’ll be going to the end of the summer. The verses will be on the screen as I share from the message. But if you don’t have a Bible with you, you can take one of the seatback Bibles. The passage is found on page 1022. Now, this passage builds on the one that Pastor Kyle preached on last week when John wrote these words in verse ten. By this it is evident, who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. And John in verse 11, contrasts that with what should be true of us as followers of Jesus. We should be known as those who love one another. Now note I always, when I’m studying the Bible, I like to look for words that are repeated or words that are used in contrast. And we have both in this passage, in these five short verses, he uses the word love three times, the word hate twice and the word murder or murderer four times. Another pair of words that are used in contrast, he uses the word life twice and the word death twice. Now, as we look at this passage this morning, I would like to observe three truths that should be true of every follower of Jesus. The first truth is that we should love one another. First John 3, verse 11, for this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Now John has referred to the message earlier in his book, in chapter one verse five. He talked about the message that we have heard from him, that God is light. And he also referred to that what you have heard from the beginning in chapter two, verse 24. It’s been suggested that what John is talking about here is when these people, John’s audience, first heard the gospel message. When they first heard the gospel message, it was emphasized to them that they should love one another. Now, I remember when I first heard the gospel message. I actually grew up in a family that went to church every week. I prided myself on knowing the Bible and knowing the stories from the Bible. But it really didn’t make a difference in my daily life. Life just went on. And yeah, something that we did once a week, but so what? Well, when I got to college, I had a friend from high school who went to the same college. We were going to a state university. And he shared with me that he had just written a 92-page paper on the deity of Christ. This is again, at a state university, and he had written this paper for one of his college classes. One, I could not believe that he had written a 92-page paper, and he had written on that subject matter. But he went on to share with me how I could know Christ personally. He shared with me what was called the four spiritual laws. I don’t know if Campus Crusade still uses those, but that’s what he used to share the gospel with me. And he said, you can know God personally ...
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