Attitudes That Enable Us to Love Like Jesus

Attitudes That Enable Us
to Love Like Jesus

I. Introduction

A. Luke 6:12-13, 17-19 (NLT) ¹²One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night. ¹³At daybreak he called together all of his disciples and chose twelve of them to be apostles. ¹⁷When they came down from the mountain, the disciples stood with Jesus on a large, level area, surrounded by many of his followers and by the crowds. There were people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the seacoasts of Tyre and Sidon. ¹⁸They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and Jesus also cast out many evil spirits. ¹⁹Everyone tried to touch him, because healing power went out from him, and he healed everyone.

1. Solitude: Love God.

2. Community: Love .

3. Ministry: Serve the world.

B. Luke 9:54 (NLT) “Lord, should we call down fire from heaven to burn them up?”

C. Mark 9:38 (NLT) “Teacher, we saw someone using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he wasn’t in our group.”

1. At the core of Jesus, there was a single word. And that single word is: .

D. Matthew 22:37-39 (NAS) ³⁷“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸This is the great and foremost commandment. ³⁹The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

E. John 13:34-35 (NAS) ³⁴“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1. Jesus was saying to the 12, “I want you to be the most group of people in the entire world!”

II. Attitudes That Enable Us to Love Like Jesus

A. Everybody’s .

1. Luke 15:2 (NAS) “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

2. Luke 6:20 (NLT) “God blesses you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours.”

3. Matthew 19:21 (NLT) “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

4. “I think that when the poor were overlooked by the priests (the Roman pagan priests), the Christians noticed how the poor were being overlooked. And so, they devoted themselves to ministry to the poor.” (Julian the Apostate)

5. “The ancient world had no clear conception of childhood as we do. And, therefore, if a baby or child wasn’t wanted because of its gender, or poverty, or it was sickly or something—leaving it to die of exposure was normal.” (O. M. Bakke)

6. “At the first onset of the disease of the plague, they (the general population) pushed the sufferers away, and they fled from their dearest (spouse, parent, child, etc.), throwing them into the road before they were dead, and treating unburied corpses as dirt.” (Dionysius (260 A.D.))

7. Galatians 3:28 (NAS) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

8. Would people who know you say, “By the look on your face, by your body language, by the tone of your voice, by the way that you listen, that you’re the type of person who says, ‘ !’”

B. Nobody’s .

1. Matthew 7:1 (NLT) “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged.”

C. Anything’s .

1. Matthew 19:26b (NAS) “With God all things are possible.”

III. Conclusion