Today’s Lesson Theme Verse Is Found In This Passage of Scripture:
“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love
 and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”
I John 4:16
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Today’s Lesson thought can be summed up by asking this simple question…
“Are You Loving Others As God Has Loved You??”

 Lesson: “Love Is Of God”

 I           : The Pattern for Love

• I John 4:7-11, Galatians 4:4-5, Hebrews 12:2-3

II         : The Perfection of Love 

• I John 4:12-18, Galatians 5:22-23

 III        : The Practice of Love 

• I John 4:19-21

CONCLUSION…

Christians do not have the luxury of “choosing” whether or not they will love others…folks, we, as truly born again children of God, are obligated by God to love others even as we are to love God Himself!

Paul wrote in I Corinthians 9:14, “Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.”