This document discusses the concept of love in the New Testament. It provides several biblical passages where Jesus talks about the two greatest commandments: to love God with all your being, and to love your neighbor as yourself. The document suggests that based on how God showed love to the marginalized in the Christmas story (the poor, shepherds, magi), Christians should show love today to the homeless, immigrants, outcasts, poor, and "other." It encourages exercising one's spiritual, relational, physical, intellectual or financial "capitals" to show love to others.

1. Sunday, December 11 2016
ADVENT ~ Week 3

2. What is your FAVORITE Christmas MOVIE?
TALK AMONGST YOURSLEVES…

3. Sunday, December 11 2016
ADVENT ~ Week 3

4. AGAPE/AGAPAW(agaph/agapaw)
- Used 320x in the N.T.
- Used 106x in John’s Gospel
- Active love; value; esteem; delight in…
PHILEO (filew)
- Used 55x in the N.T
- Used 21x in John’s Gospel
- Affection; kindness;
deep, abiding friendship…
LOVE in THE NEW TESTAMENT

5. …(then) one of (the Pharisees), a lawyer, asked
(Jesus) a question to test him. “Teacher, which
commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your mind.’ This is the greatest, and first
commandment. And a second is like it:
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
On these two commandments hang
all the law, and the prophets.”
MATTHEW 22:2

6. One of the scribes…asked him,
“Which commandment is the first of all?”
Jesus answered, “The first is: ‘Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind, and with all your
strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other
commandment greater than these.”
MARK 12:28-31

7. Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.
“Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit
life in the age to come?” He said to him, “What is
written in the law? What do you read there?”
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your
mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
And he said to him, “You have given the right
answer; do this, and you will live.”
LUKE 10:25-28

8. I give you a new commandment,
that you love one another.
Just as I have loved you,
you also should love one another.
By this everyone will know
that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.
JOHN 13:34-35

9. WHO DID GOD SHOW LOVE TO
IN THE CHRISTMAS STORY?
- The Poor (Mary/Joseph)
- The Rejected (Shepherds)
- The Marginalized (Magi)

10. WHAT SHOULD THIS MEAN
FOR US TODAY? LOVE FOR…
- The homeless
- The immigrant
- The outcast
- The poor
- The “other”

11. WHAT SHOULD THIS MEAN
FOR US TODAY? LOVE FOR…
- The homeless
- The immigrant
- The outcast
- The poor
- The “other”
- ONE ANOTHER…

12. We all have access to the following “capitals”:
- Spiritual
- Relational
- Physical
- Intellectual
- Financial
Ask God to show you how to leverage
one-or-more of these capitals to show
LOVE to someone else this week…
SOUL TRAINING EXERCISE

13. One of the scribes…asked him,
“Which commandment is the first of all?”
Jesus answered, “The first is: ‘Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind, and with all your
strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other
commandment greater than these.”
BENEDICTION (Mark 12)