We Are One

One Lord

February 12, 2017

Please turn in your Bibles to John 17:22-23(NIV)

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

John 17:20-23

1: One Lord: Massive Marching Orders

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ i 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ j 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22:36-40

“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,

for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 7:12

2: One Lord: Crucial Connection

“We love because He first loved us.”

1 John 4:19

3: One Lord: Debt of Love

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” y and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” a 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Romans 13:8-10 (ref. 1John 4: 7-8, 20-21)

What is God’s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?