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Investing in People

Published: Feb. 13, 2009, 2:08 a.m.

Investing our Lives in People

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\xa0 John 15:12-13

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This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends

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  • Laying down ones life for his friends.

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  • Missionary goes and invests his life in the lives of others, Why?

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  • Story \u2013 5 Missionaries lost their lives in 1956 trying to reach AUCA or Huaorani

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  • Nate Saint & Jim Eliot 3 others lost their lives \u2013 Made Popular by movie End of the Spear

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\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Not a waste but investment\xa0 Lives like corn of wheat falls in to the ground\xa0 John 12:24

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Love tell about Shuar Indians \xa0Former Head hunters of Ecuador

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\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 I remember quoting this verse to man in marriage counseling.

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\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Question:\xa0 Are you willing to lay down your life for your wife?

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\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 WE are not being called upon to loose or lives to die for each other.

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\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 But we are called to lay down our lives to love and serve one another.

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All know John 3:16 -\xa0 \u201cFor God so loved the World that he gave\u2026.

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By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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Gal 5:13

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For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another

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Mark 10:45

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For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

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One Another Commands of Scripture

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Encourage you to live your life for God and people.\xa0

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Love is Great Commandment \u2013 to fulfill it brings great joy!

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