St. John's Denver Audio

He has told you, O man, what is good;    and what does the Lord require of youbut to do justice, and to love kindness,    and to walk humbly with your God?

God invites us to come to the light of Jesus Christ, which exposes us but also refines us.

God's testimony about Jesus is true and is confirmed by the water, the blood, and the Spirit.

Jesus Christ's love sets us free to love God back and then we're set free to love others.Transcript:We're in the series that we're calling That Love in First John and we've been going through just passage by passage almost verse by verse at times in taking what God has for us about love, and the culture says a lot about love does it not? But this passage of this book of the Bible is kind of reframing, it's kind of re-calibrating our viewpoint when it comes to God's love. How many off you would say the topic of Salvation is important? Yeah probably like pretty like up there you talking about like what's important in life probably salvation, I would think man that's up there at the top. For those of you that are new that is the teaching of how we can have a relationship with God and be reconciled to him. Tt is how we can be saved from our sin and death and eternal separation from God and have an eternal reconciled relationship to God so man getting that right I would think that is exceedingly critical. I wanted

Love is a war of motivation, discrepancy, and duplicity. The love of Jesus will come again to bring restoration and to rescue and renew us.Transcript:So grateful to be able to continue in first John with us together and we just going through it we're seeing a lot about love uh different dimensions of love we hear so much about love through our culture do we not but yet scripture has a a lot to say about what it looks like and what we can do to live it out as people who have been loved. As I was preparing this week I was thinking about there was this time where my she's now 14 she's getting older my daughter she loves to walk around the house with her phone on and the music at full volume full blast and don't worry I got permission she's on one of the cameras right now but shejust said hey whatever stories you want to tell it's fine so now I have a ton of Leila stories to tell you um but nevertheless like her phone is just blasting and so I just come up to her and I'm like Leila you know how when you get in th

As followers of Christ, we need high love and high truth to grow and to minister to others in our community.

Transcript:Perfect so the Apostle John is really nice to us this morning um when you were making a point uh there are two ways that you can make a point Point um you can do a deductive point where you state your point and then you explain it or you can do an inductive point where you slowly build to the conclusion and here's the point and John was really nice he did a deductive point the whole reading that we had today can be summarized by the very first verse that Matt read and that was this for this is the message that you have heard from the beginning that we should love one another so that's the point today I thought I'd save us all time in Jesus name amen um we're going to continueous some prayers just kidding can you imagine that would be ridiculous some people were a little too excited I saw a little like oh man we get a brunch early we'll beat the rush um no it's a Johnreally does make this point right off the bat um really quickly he he just says like hey this is what I want you toget out of this sec