The Love of God  

I. Scenarios
- Trick – vacuum salesman, “Honey, does this dress make me look fat?”
- Loophole – How little can I get by with? – job decription
- Arrogance – Help around house and ask about it, how do you like my dress?
- Competition – Drug store comparison

II. Christianity is much simpler than we make it
- Matthew 22:36-38 NIV
- What led to this discussion? 4 possible scenarios
- Trick – Sadducees/Pharisees trying to trick Jesus
- Loophole – trying to find out how little they could do
- Arrogance – Trying to see how “good” they were
- Competition – Trying to beat each other, look better

III. How does this apply to us? We ask the same questions with same answers
- Trick – we try to trick people about who we are or into following Christ(Russia)
- Loophole – we want to know how close to wrong we can get and still be okay
- Arrogance – We try to make ourselves look “good”
- Competion – between churches/ministries. Between Christians

IV. God says to love Him and love others
- How do we love God?
- John 14:15 The Message
- Eliminate sin
- Live for him and not ourselves
- How do we love others
- John 13:33,4 NIV
- Philippians 2:3 NIV
- Romans 12:10 NIV

V. How do we know how to love?
- I John 4:7-12
- How are you doing on keeping the commandments?








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