Love Your Neighbor Jn 3 16 21 Loving

Love Your Neighbor? Jn. 3: 16 -21

Loving Your Neighbor? Jn. 3: 16 -21 Introduction:

God’s Motivation For Saving Man Is Love. Jn. 3: 13 -16 God sent His Son that people might have eternal life. Jn. 3: 13 -15 13 "No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. 14 "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; 15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

God’s Motivation For Saving Man Is Love. Jn. 3: 13 -16 God sent His Son that people might have eternal life. Jn. 3: 13 -15 The story of the Bronze Serpent. Num. 21: 1 -9 Num. 21: 4 Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. 5 The people spoke against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food. "

God’s Motivation For Saving Man Is Love. Jn. 3: 13 -16 God sent His Son that people might have eternal life. Jn. 3: 13 -15 The story of the Bronze Serpent. Num. 21: 1 -9 6 The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 So the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and you; intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents from us. " And Moses interceded for the people.

God’s Motivation For Saving Man Is Love. Jn. 3: 13 -16 God sent His Son that people might have eternal life. Jn. 3: 13 -15 The story of the Bronze Serpent. Num. 21: 1 -9 8 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live. " 9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

God’s Motivation For Saving Man Is Love. Jn. 3: 13 -16 God sent His Son that people might have eternal life. Jn. 3: 13 -15 The story of the Bronze Serpent. Num. 21: 1 -9 God’s love for man moved Him. Jn. 3: 16 16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Man Needed God’s Care Because Of Sin. Jn. 3: 17 -18 The coming of Jesus didn’t condemn the world. Jn. 3: 17 17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. This world is condemned. Acts 2: 40 -41; Gal. 1: 4 40 And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation!“ 41 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

Man Needed God’s Care Because Of Sin. Jn. 3: 17 -18 The coming of Jesus didn’t condemn the world. Jn. 3: 17 17 "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. This world is condemned. Acts 2: 40 -41; Gal. 1: 4 4 who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Man Needed God’s Care Because Of Sin. Jn. 3: 17 -18 God sent Jesus so man could find forgiveness. Jn. 3: 18 18 "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Jesus came to save people. Mark 16: 15 -16 15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

Jesus’ presence exposes sin. Jn. 3: 19 -20 Jesus, Light exposes sin. Jn. 3: 19 19 "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. Our presence smells. 2 Cor. 2: 14 -17 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

Jesus’ presence exposes sin. Jn. 3: 19 -20 Jesus, Light exposes sin. Jn. 3: 19 19 "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. Our presence smells. 2 Cor. 2: 14 -17 16 to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

Jesus’ presence exposes sin. Jn. 3: 19 -20 Wicked people don’t want to be around Light. Jn. 3: 20 20 "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. They don’t want to be reminded of their sin. 1 Pet. 4: 4 4 In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you; 5 but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Jesus’ presence exposes sin. Jn. 3: 19 -20 Wicked people don’t want to be around Light. Jn. 3: 20 They don’t want to be reminded of their sin. 1 Pet. 4: 4 That’s why Abel died. 1 Jn. 3: 11 -12 11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother's were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.

A Righteous Seeking Person Comes To Jesus. Jn. 3: 21 21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. " The truth seeker comes to Jesus. Jn. 5: 39 -40 39 "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; 40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

A Righteous Seeking Person Comes To Jesus. Jn. 3: 21 21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. " The truth seeker comes to Jesus. Jn. 5: 39 -40 He doesn’t hide his activity. 2 Cor. 4: 1 -2 1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, 2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God,

A Righteous Seeking Person Comes To Jesus. Jn. 3: 21 21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. " The truth seeker comes to Jesus. Jn. 5: 39 -40 He doesn’t hide his activity. 2 Cor. 4: 1 -2 1…. but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

A Righteous Seeking Person Comes To Jesus. Jn. 3: 21 21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. " A righteous man wants to be right with God. Acts 17: 10 -12 10 The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 Now these were more nobleminded than those in Thessalonica,

A Righteous Seeking Person Comes To Jesus. Jn. 3: 21 21 "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. " A righteous man wants to be right with God. Acts 17: 10 -12 11…. for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.

We’re To Love Our Neighbor Like Jesus Loves Us. Jn. 13: 35 35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. " Jesus came to save sinners. Luke 19: 9 -10 9 And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. "

We’re To Love Our Neighbor Like Jesus Loves Us. Jn. 13: 35 35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. " Jesus came to save sinners. Luke 19: 9 -10 We’re to hang around sinners. 1 Cor. 5: 9 -10 9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

We’re To Love Our Neighbor Like Jesus Loves Us. Jn. 13: 35 35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. " Jesus came to save sinners. Luke 19: 9 -10 We’re to hang around sinners. 1 Cor. 5: 9 -10 We want them saved. 1 Tim. 2: 4 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Application Something to pray about: God help us to see the condition of our neighbors around and us. Something to do: Set up a dinner, a lunch, a BBQ or plan a time to talk with your neighbor/s about their relationship with Christ.

Love Your Neighbors? Jn. 3: 16 -21 Conclusion: Being “in but not of the world” means that we see people in their spiritual condition and try to help them see the light. We can’t do this properly unless we ourselves have first answered the call of Jesus.