Climbing the Christian Construct, Step 08-Love

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Text: 2 Peter 1:5-8

Topic: Growth in Christian Virtue.

Thesis: Believers must work outtheir own salvation.

Title: Climbingthe Christian Construct,

Step Eight-Love


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Gods love, agape, is love

______. Combined with the telling

of the resurrection of Jesus fromthe dead, this message of

universal love turned __________

upside down.


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Gods love, agape, is love

for all. Combined with the telling

of the resurrection of Jesus fromthe dead, this message of

universal love turned the world

upside down.


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Agape is

.Not About ,

Its About .

In all this I have given you an example

that by such work we must support the weak,

remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, forhe himself said, It is more ___________ to

give than to receive."

(Acts 20:35 NRSV)


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Agape is

.Not About Receiving,

Its About Giving.



remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, forhe himself said, It is more ___________ to


(Acts 20:35 NRSV)


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Agape is

.Not About Receiving,

Its About Giving.



remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, forhe himself said, It is more blessed to


(Acts 20:35 NRSV)


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"For God so loved the world that

he gave his only Son, so that

everyone who believes in him maynot perish but may have eternal life.

(John 3:16 NRSV)


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Agape is

2.Not , Its .

Agape is a ____.


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Agape is

2.Not Passive, Its Active.

Agape is a ____.


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Agape is

2.Not Passive, Its Active.

Agape is a verb.


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Love is _______; love is _____;

love is not envious or boastful orarrogant or rude. It does not insist on

its own way; it is not irritable or

resentful; it does not rejoice in

wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.

It ____ all things, ______ all things,____ all things, _____ all things.

(1 Co13:4-7 NRSV)


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Love is patient; love is kind;

love is not envious or boastful orarrogant or rude. It does not insist on

its own way; it is not irritable or

resentful; it does not rejoice in

wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things,hopes all things, endures all things.

(1 Co13:4-7 NRSV)


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Kingdom Point:

God is not willing that

any should _____.
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Kingdom Point:

God is not willing that

any should perish.


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Kingdom Point:

Say to them, As I live, says the

Lord GOD, I have no ________ in the

death of the wicked, but that thewicked ____ from their ways and live;

turn back, turn back from your evilways; for why will you die, O house of

Israel?

(Eze. 33:11 NRSV)


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Kingdom Point:

Say to them, As I live, says the

Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the

death of the wicked, but that thewicked turn from their ways and live;

turn back, turn back from your evilways; for why will you die, O house of

Israel?

(Eze. 33:11 NRSV)


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Agape is

.Not ,

Its .

"If you love those who love you,

what credit is that to you? For even

_______ love those who love them.(Luke 6:32 NRSV)


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Agape is

.Not Reciprocal,

Its Unilateral.



_______ love those who love them.(Luke 6:32 NRSV)


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Agape is

.Not Reciprocal,

Its Unilateral.



sinners love those who love them.(Luke 6:32 NRSV)


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Climbing toward maturity means we

must make every effort to support our

________________, and ______________,and ________________, and

_____________________, and

________________, and

_____________________, and

_________________. For if these things are

yours and are increasing among you, they keep

you from being ___________ and____________ in the knowledge of our Lord

Jesus Christ.

(2 Peter 1:5-8 NRSV)


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Climbing toward maturity means we

must make every effort to support our

faith with goodness, and goodness withknowledge, and knowledge with self-control,

and self-control with endurance, and

endurance with godliness, and godlinesswith mutual affection, and mutual affection

with love. For if these things are yours and are

increasing among you, they keep you from

being ineffective and unfruitful in the

knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2Pe 1:5-8

NRSV)

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