The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast

#1,096: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

• Loren Hicks

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What would the world be like if we viewed everyone as our neighbors?  And, what if we truly loved our neighbors as we love ourselves?


Main Points:

1. Our relationship with God is inseparable from our relationships to the people in our lives.  We can’t be in a love relationship with God and not act in love towards other people.  This is what Jesus calls the greatest commandments:  love God, and because you love God – you will love people.

2. Sometimes you may not feel like loving someone. You may not feel any sympathy or compassion. We demonstrate our love for God when we love others with our actions, regardless of our feelings.  God will often provide the love we need to feel when we act before we feel.  What would I do, if I did have appropriate? feelings toward them?

3. Let’s ask this important question: What kind of neighbor am I? Listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit and let God direct you to be a neighbor to someone in need.=


Today’s Scripture Verses:

Matthew 22:37-39 - “Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”

John 13:35 - “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”


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