Opening Reading: Psalm 2

Outline:

· Love: Virtue or Vice?

· God’s Love Displayed

· As He Is, So Also are We

· In this World: the Christian calling to love as God loves

· Setting the Captives Free: Love and the Gospel

Verses Read or Referenced in Sermon (Bold passages on screen):

· Isaiah 5:20-21; 6:5

· Romans 1:16-17

· Genesis 1:27; 2:24

· 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

· Matthew 16:18

· Acts 5:29

· Acts 5:40-42

· 1 John 4:16-17

· Galatians 5:22

· 1 John 4:9-10

· Romans 5:6, 8

· Ephesians 2:4-5

· 1 John 3:16

· John 13:34

· Proverbs 8:13

· Romans 12:9

· Luke 24:47

· 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

· 1 John 2:15

· Matthew 5:45, 44

· Mark 8:34

· 1 John 1:9

· Mark 8:35

· John 3:16

· John 3:18-19

· Galatians 6:7

· 2 Peter 2:19

· Romans 6:6-8

· Romans 10:14-17

· Matthew 5:48

· Romans 14:12

· Matthew 12:36