Love People - July 10th
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🗓️ 10 July 2018
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Summary
As we continue our week exploring the simple principles of the Christian faith, today let’s look at what it means to love people. Many of us know that God asks us to love others, but often loving people is easier said than done. God knows our weaknesses, and any command he gives, he has a plan to empower us and give us grace to be obedient. As you explore how God may want you to love people today, may your heart be opened to his profound grace.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 John 4:7, and today's worship is Let There Be Light by Hillsong Worship featuring Matt Crocker.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week exploring the simple principles of the Christian faith, |
| 0:09.0 | today let's look at what it means to love people. |
| 0:12.0 | Many of us know that God asks us to love others, but often |
| 0:16.4 | loving people is easier said than done. But God knows our weaknesses. And any command |
| 0:21.8 | he gives, he has a plan to empower us and give us the grace to be obedient. |
| 0:27.0 | As you explore how God may want you to love people today, may your heart be opened to his profound grace. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today is 1st John 4 7. Scripture reads, |
| 0:54.0 | Beloved, let us love one another, |
| 0:57.0 | for love is from God, |
| 0:59.0 | and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. |
| 1:05.0 | As we step into deeper abundance of relationship with our Heavenly Father, |
| 1:10.0 | our hearts will naturally burn to love people as he has loved us. |
| 1:15.0 | Loving people was never a chore for Jesus. |
| 1:18.0 | He loved those around him with a fiery passion of his father, |
| 1:22.0 | and God calls you and me to do the same. |
| 1:26.8 | First John 4 9 through 12 says in this the love of God was made manifest among us that God send his only son into the world |
| 1:36.0 | so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the |
| 1:45.0 | perpetuation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love |
| 1:51.5 | one another. No one has ever seen God. |
| 1:55.0 | If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. |
| 2:00.0 | God's love, perfected in you, will be demonstrated in the way that you love others. |
| 2:07.0 | Allow that fact to rest in your heart for just a moment. |
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