Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
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… ourselves as we look to the interests of others, Philippians chapter 2, verse 4, and lay down our lives for them, 1 John chapter 3, verses 16 through 18. Following the example of the one who, 1 John 3 and Philippians chapter 2 makes clear, emptied himself and gave his life for us. So this is what we're supposed to do for all of these people, for children, for their parents. So it's interesting. Do you know the reasons why people say they abort their babies? When you look at the data, and I want to be really careful not to oversimplify this and certainly not to assume that I know the exact reason going on in any woman or man's heart and mind when it comes to having an abortion, but simply looking at the feedback from those who have abortions, there seem to be two primary reasons. And here's how I would describe them. The first is love of self. And the second is lack of support in no particular order. And I would just say, notice neither of those is because someone thinks the baby in the womb is not a person. So we just mentioned that even science is clearly shown this is a living being. …
… anything for your brother, how does the love of God abide in you? How is it you can say you love God if you shut that feeling down every time it happens? My little children, let us not just love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this, we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him. We'll pause right there and continue our reading of the text in a moment. But let me say the title of this message is Life at the Pace of the Holy Spirit. Life at the Pace of the Holy Spirit. I was thinking this week with all the attention on the lottery about that old meme you used to see a lot. Like, if I won the lottery, because I mean, there's $1.2 billion or whatever got split between two people. And everyone's kind of like, who's this person that won? Like, how could you know if your neighbor won the lottery? …
… both here in the room and online. So 1 John 3 verse 18 says this. I love the apostle John. He is in love with love. You know that person? yeah I have a nine-year-old he's in love with love and uh we always say like I'm like nervous that he's gonna get married at 17 you know like he's just like such an empathetic like loving heart you know I'm like honey like I know that she beat cancer and she's got a sleeve tattoo but like that's not the the one that God has for you but he just like loves love and like loves everyone and it's a beautiful thing. But the Apostle John's a little bit like that. He's a feeler. He loves love. So he has a lot of content in scriptures on relationship and love if you want to read through that book to help guide you. But it says, Dear children, let us not love with words or speech, but with actions. Everyone say actions. …