What does life in the family of God look like? What did Jesus intend for us while we live with one another as blood-bought brothers and sisters in Christ? On the night he was betrayed, Jesus commanded his disciples to “Love one another.” (John 13:34-35) What does that mean? Why love one another? What does that look like?

Loving one another in the family of God means understanding how and why God loves each of us. God does not love us because of anything we have done or deserved or decided. Rather God loves us with a self-sacrificing love called grace that was willing to give up the life of his one and only Son. God himself is love incarnate, in the flesh, and nothing could prevent his love from saving us from sin and death.

Yet that same Son of God calls us to love one another. We do so not out of fear or duty or guilt, but because he loved us with his boundless grace first. We love every soul that God puts in our path to serve. We love them as holy, priceless, precious, blood-bought souls and live in love—humble, gracious, forgiving—toward them, seeking to love them as Jesus loved us. Little children, let us love one another!

The Bible reading for this message is 1 John 4:7-11,16-21.

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This is the second in Pastor's farewell series: Encouragement for the Family of God.

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