Walk In Love

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WALK IN LOVE
Sharon Riekenberg September 15, 2015
To walk:………action… a path… a way to act… behave
1 Jn:4:19 “We love because He first loved us!”
Greatest demonstration of God’s love: John 3:16
1 John 4:7-11
Notice: God loved, and God sent – this is a love of action and doing, not emotions or feelings.
Scriptural Love:
1) Phileo Love
2) Eros Love
3) Agape Love
This kind of love requires a balance:
Love and grace must be…………balanced with……………truth, right doctrine, purity of the church
Love is a fruit of the Spirit.
Gil Rugh: “We are misguided if we don’t practice righteousness and don’t love God’s children.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Fifteen characteristics of love:
1. Love is patient.

2. Love is kind.

3. Love is not jealous.

4. Love does not brag.

5. Love is not arrogant.

6. Love does not act unbecomingly.

7. Love does not seek its own.

8. Love is not provoked.

9. Love does not take into account a wrong suffered.

10. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness.

11. Love rejoices with the truth
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12. Love bears all things.

13. Love believes all things.

14. Love hopes all things.

“I never lose confidence in God’s power.”
“Failure is never final as long as grace is operative in a life.”

15. Love endures all things.


T H I S L I S T I S F O R M E ! ! !

Guard Your Love for Christ.

Guard Your Love for Others.


Resources: Love or Die by Alexander Strauch
If You Bite & Devour One Another by Alexander Strauch
The Fruitful Life by Jerry Bridges