double edged love

7/30/2019 Double Edged Love

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God's Double-Edged Love

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord isone. 5 Love the Lord your God with all yourheart and with all your soul and with all yourstrength. 6 These commandments that I give

you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impressthem on your children. Talk about them whenyou sit at home and when you walk along the

road, when you lie down and when you get up.8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bindthem on your foreheads. 9 Write them on thedoorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9


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Love is God's Key to...

Single-minded obedience Joshua1:6-9

Kingdom culture

John 3:3,5 Being a discipled nation-church

Matthew 28:19-20

Love your neighbor as yourselfDeuteronomy 15:4-8; John 3:16;

Luke 4:18-19


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Love is God's Key

Single-minded obedience Joshua1:6-9

Kingdom culture

John 3:3,5 Being a discipled nation-church

Matthew 28:19-20

Love your neighbor as yourselfDeuteronomy 15:4-8; John 3:16


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Single-minded obedience

6 Be strong and courageous, because you will lead thesepeople to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to givethem.

7 "Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the

law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the rightor to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on itday and night, so that you may be careful to do everything

written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Donot be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God willbe with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:6-9 NIV


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Kingdom Culture

3 Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, no one can seethe kingdom of God unless they are born again."

5 Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one canenter the kingdom of God unless they are born ofwater and the Spirit. John 3:3,5 NIV


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Love your neighbor...

4 However, there need be no poor people among you, for inthe land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as yourinheritance, he will richly bless you, 5 if only you fully obeythe Lord your God and are careful to follow all these

commands I am giving you today.6

For the Lord your Godwill bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to manynations but will borrow from none. You will rule over manynations but none will rule over you.

7 If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of thetowns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not behardhearted or tightfisted toward them. 8 Rather, beopenhanded and freely lend them whatever they need.Deuteronomy 15:4-8 NIV


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18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he hasanointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He

has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners andrecovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressedfree, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Luke4:18-19 NIV


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18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he hasanointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He

has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners andrecovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressedfree, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Luke4:18-19 NIV


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Key to discipling nations

19 Therefore go and makedisciples ofall nations, baptizing them in the

name of the Father and of the Sonand of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teachingthem to obey everything I have

commanded you. And surely I amwith you always, to the very end ofthe age." Matthew 28:19-20 NIV


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Love beyond charity

10 When the Lord your God brings you into the landhe swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac andJacob, to give youa land with large, flourishingcities you did not build,11houses filled with all kinds

of good things you did not provide, wells you did notdig, and vineyards and olive groves you did notplantthen when you eat and are satisfied, 12 becareful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought

you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

13Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and takeyour oaths in his name.14Do not follow other gods,

the gods of the peoples around you. Deuteronomy6:10-14 NIV


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I love you

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his oneand only Son, that whoever believes in him shall notperish but have eternal life. John 3:16 NIV


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I love you

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his oneand only Son, that whoever believes in him shall notperish but have eternal life. John 3:16 NIV


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I saved you to be my people

17 For God did not send his Son into the world tocondemn the world, but to save the world throughhim. John 3:17 NIV


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Do you love me?15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter,

"Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?""Yes, Lord,"he said, "you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my lambs."

16 Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Heanswered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Take

care of my sheep."

17 The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you loveme?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Doyou love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I

love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. John 21:15-17 NIV

...then he said to him, "Follow me!" John 21:19 NIV

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