Love Sick Week 2: Love Does Message Summary: The only logical reaction to the love of God is loving others. Far more than a feeling that we can’t control, true love acts, gives, serves, and sacrifices, which has a supernatural way of building trust, healing wounds, and restoring the feelings that we once felt. ✦ Chat GPT and Jesus’ Transformative Love: ✦ 1 John 4:11 — Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Since God loved us, we also ought to love one another. ✦ Love Does for God. ❖ Galatians 5:14 — For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ❖ 1 John 4:20-21 — Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. ❖ Loves Does Commandments 1-3 so… ✦ Love Does for Others. ❖ Romans 13 — ❖ Matthew 25 — ❖ Ephesians 5 — ❖ 1 Corinthians 7 — ❖ Philippians 2 — ❖ Mark 10 — ❖ Loves Does Commandments 4-8 so… ✦ Love Does NOT Sin. ❖ 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 — Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ❖ Loves Does Commandments 9-10. ✦ Takeaway: In everything, what’s love look like from me for God, for others? Planting Jesus Roots GATHER — How many ways can you recall where God’s love is encountered in worship? Of all the ways you can recall, how many of those ways are based on God’s actions in the past, present, or in promise? GROUP — Living in community with others is by God’s design and all so that love does. As you consider the fellow believers in your life, in groups or families, how might you show love in action to them this week? GROW — Love can only increase in us when we connect with love everyday and throughout the day. In what ways do you see that daily meditation and prayer on God’s Word truly inspires your love for others? GIVE — We live in a larger community than our local church. What are ways that you can let the love of Jesus inspire you to show love, unlike others would, to nonbelievers or strangers this week? GO — The greatest way we can show love to others is by connecting to Love Itself. Whom do you know who needs Love in their life? God bless you as you love them by doing the work of evangelism. Homework: Matthew 5:43-48 (Hashtags: love, God, sin)