The Sermon on the Mount True Righteousness Who Do You Love

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The Sermon on the MountTrue RighteousnessWho
Do You Love?
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Love Is (word study)

• Agape volitional love vs. feeling love.
• Phileo gen.,tender affection.
• Cf. I Jn. 215 2 Tim. 410 agape.
• Matthew 543-47 Luke 627-36
• Who do you love?

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Love is?

• We need to reevaluate our definition of love
• We need to reevaluate the scope of love

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Definition agape

• Love (agape) meets the needs of the other person,
  especially the spiritual needs, irrespective of
  the feelings we have for them and the treatment
  we receive from them before or after our good
  work.

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Scope agape

• Love (agape) i.e., this doing good extends
  not only to our friends and loved ones, but
  also to those who would do, or have done, us
  harm.
• Love has creative force.
• Love is good for you.

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Love How?

• What would you do if you loved God, loved your
  neighbor, loved your enemy?
• Then do it.
• Remember in loving our enemies we are only doing
  what God has done for us.
• Romans 58-10