10-03-10 PM Sermon - Reasons to Love Fervently

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REASONS TO LOVE FERVENTLY
1Peter 1:22-25                                    10/3/10 PM
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

•    Agape is used as sacrificial love.
•    Éros  is passionate love,
•    Storge  means "affection"
•    Philia  means friendship in modern Greek.           .
    It binds them together as a clan.
    It binds one another together in an unbreakable union.
    It holds deep affection for one another.
    It nourishes and nurtures one another.
    It looks after the welfare of one another.

“Do I love my brothers and sisters in the faith this way?”

Unfeigned – Genuine sincere without pretension, hypocrisy, or play acting.
Fervent  - (ektenos) full intensity.
It literally means to “stretch love out” or to “love in an all out manner.”
In the Greek this has a very forceful meaning, which stresses the importance of it.

Three Reasons We Are To Love With Full Intensity.

1. Because our soul is purified. Vs. 22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit…
"purity in Gods children is not the outcome of obedience to His law, but the result of the supernatural work of His grace."                        
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

2. Because we have been born again by the Word of God. Vs. 23

“new men” and “new women”.

1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

Col. 3:10
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

The third reason we are to love with intensity

3. Because we have a spiritual birth.
We have a new life, a renewed soul, and a regenerated spirit.

2 Cor. 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.


We are spiritually born again:
1. By water even the spirit. John 3:5
2. By the will of God. James 1:18
3. By incorrupttible seed, even the word of God
     1 Peter 1:23
4. By God from above. 1 Peter 1:3
5. By Christ who gives both the power and the     right to be born again. John 1:12-13

A person proves he is born again: (Read verses)
1. By doing righteous acts. 1 John 2:29;
    Eph. 2:10; 4:24
2. By loving other believers. 1 John 4:7
3. By overcoming the world. 1 John 5:4
4. By keeping himself. 1 John 5:18
5. By possessing the divine seed or nature.
    1 John 3:9 1 Pet. 1:23; 2Pet. 1:14; col. 1:27