3 categories of people we should love

Jesus gave us three categories of people we are to love: our brothers and sisters in the faith, our neighbor, and our enemies. This was a radical change from the thinking of His people, who, according to the instructions in Leviticus 16, were to love only their closest relatives. Watch this message for a detailed explanation of who we are supposed to love.

1. We submit to your command of love.
2. We allow You to express Your goodness like a river flowing through our love for others.
3. We choose to love one another, our neighbors and our enemies
4. We receive the grace to grow in love and become perfect in love
5. We commit ourselves to being agents of the expression of Your love for our generation
6. We are given the grace to love the lost and to work tirelessly for their salvation.
7. We receive the grace to make disciples in love
8. We are a church of love and we choose to reveal Your love to the lost in this church.
9. Thank you for the privilege of loving in Your name and revealing Yourself as the God who is love.

Prayers and Declarations

1. Love is not approval. God doesn't necessarily approve of our actions, but He loves us.
2. Refuse the tyranny of negative experiences, of negative words. 
3. Choose that what God says will determine your thinking and condition your experience in life. 
4. Most Christians do not live as they should because they submit to negative experiences and relativize the Word of God.
5. You cannot relativize the Word of God and live a victorious Christian life.
6. Don't let your past imprison your future. God's Word changes our lives, changes our hearts, changes our thoughts.
7. Jesus didn't say, "Seek to be loved." He said, "Love one another."

1. “Grace began in the Old Testament. Everything they received from God was by grace, not because they deserved it.”
2. “God has always wanted a loving relationship with His people.”
3. “In God's economy, love for God is above all things.”
4. “All tithes, all offerings, all services, everything you can do outside of the love of God is worthless.”
5. “In the church we are obsessed with whether God loves us, but we must first be obsessed with whether we love Him.”
6. “What determines our relationship with God is not God's love for us, but our love for Him, because God's love for us is unchanging.”
7. “God's love is a given that never changes. Our love is very random, and that's what we need to work on.”

Questions

Answer these questions with supporting verses.

1. What does loving one another entail? What has changed in your perspective on loving other believers?
2. Who is my neighbor and what do you think about the challenges of loving one's neighbor?
3. Give practical examples of how this can be done successfully.
4. Give a contemporary context to how to love one's enemies.
5. Is there room for judgment when you should love your enemies?
6. Why were Ananias and Sapphira judged? How should this affect our attitude toward God and the Church?
7. What lessons can we learn from the judgment of Elymas the sorcerer?
8. What general lesson did you learn from this message about who we are supposed to love?