Main Point: If we are loved by God, we will love like God.

Questions:

What impacted you from the sermon this weekend? What challenged you or encouraged you? What does John teach us about love in these verses? What contrasts does he use to help us understand love more deeply? Read 1 John 3:11-15. In what way is loving one another inseparable from the gospel? How do Cain’s actions provide a contrast to loving one another? Why does the world hate Christians? According to verse 14, how are Christians different than the world? How does loving people reflect the reality of knowing the love of God? Read 1 John 3:15-18. What does Jesus’ sacrifice tell us about what love? What does it look like for Christians to lay down their lives like Jesus? What connection does John make between God’s love in a Believer and meeting a brother or sister’s needs? John is clear that real love acts. What does it look like to love with “actions and in truth”? Read 1 John 3:19-24. What does John reveal about assurance of salvation in these verses? What reassurance does John provide about prayer? What is God’s command? How is that similar to what Jesus said in Matthew 22:34-40? What did you learn about God this week? What did you learn about yourself? What is God asking you to understand or to do as a result of what you have learned? By God’s grace what is one thing you can do to apply what you have learned this week?