Sermon
How's Your Love Life?
Mercy Hill Church - Cincinnati
Speaker: Dylan Gilbert
April 25, 2022 · 38 min
Summary
Using 1 John 3:10-18, the sermon defines biblical love (agape) by contrasting it with worldly selfishness exemplified by Cain, showing how Jesus's sacrificial death demonstrates true love, and calling believers to lay down their lives—through both major sacrifice and daily service—for others as an expression of Christ-centered discipleship.
Highlights
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Talk is cheap. It is. It's easy. If you look at Jesus's life, his talk wasn't cheap because he had something to back it, right? All of these words in this Bible right here, if it was just words, it'd be cheap.
True love, that's what true love requires. True love means laying aside our desires, our wants, our needs, our preferences for not just other people's physical needs, but that their spiritual needs would be met.