sermon: Love God, Love Neighbor
Manifesting Godly Love
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 09-Apr-11; Sermon #1040; 80 minutes
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Richard Ritenbaugh, reflecting on popular music involving the theme of romantic love as the answer to all the world’s ills, remarks that the composers of these lyrics have no idea as to what love really is. The fuzzy definition of love is responsible for tolerance of sin, deviancy and liberal, multi-cultural mis-evaluations. We should have a more mature understanding of love for God and love for neighbor. The outgoing concern toward other beings begins with God the Father to Jesus Christ to us. Without godly love, real love does not exist. Real love does not exist in isolation; another being must always be the object of real love. God’s plan involving the reciprocal sharing of love among members of God’s Family began well before the foundations of the world, at which time a possible sacrifice for sin had to be factored in. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. The love of God, through the mechanism of His Holy Spirit, works on our inner beings (our mind and spirit), making us like Him, demonstrating the love of God, loving God with all our minds (keeping His commandments) and our neighbors (including our enemies) as ourselves. The extent that we love our brethren may be an accurate gauge as to how much we love God.
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“All You Need is Love” Amore Angels Ann Margaret “Can’t we all get along?” Creation Deeds Deuteronomy 6:5 Earth Ephesians 1:3-6; 3:14-21 External Ferrante and Teicher I Corinthians 13 I John 3:10; 4:9, 12, 14-16; 7:1,11, 20 I Peter 1:18-20 Four Wedding and a Funeral Frank Sinatra Genesis 1 George Gershwin Goats and sheep God’s love Godly love “Have a coke and a smile” Image of His Son Isolation John 3:35 John the Baptist Leviticus 19:18 “Love Makes the World Go Round” “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” “Love is Here to Stay” Love one another Matthew 5:43; 22:34-40; 23:4; 25:31 Oops, Wrong Planet Outgoing concern Outside to inside Plan Planets Predestined Predestination Pre-Passover sermon Reciprocation Romans 5:1-5 Sacrifice Self-love Shema Titus 3:4 Tom Jones Tricksy lawyers Tricksy scribes Trogs Universal Wayne Newton Wet Wet Wet Words and deeds
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