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Published: Sept. 12, 2011, 4:38 p.m.

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The Title of message is:\\xa0 My Church Loves People.

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(Daniel 6:3) \\u201cNow Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.\\u201d

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Agape = unconditional love.\\xa0

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Love means, living for the other person\\u2019s good.

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(1 Corinthians 14:1 LB)\\xa0 \\u201cMake love your greatest aim\\u2026\\u201d

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Love is intentional.\\xa0

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(1 John 3:18)\\xa0 \\u201cDear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.\\u201d

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(Romans 5:8) \\u201cBut God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.\\u201d

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(John 15:13)\\xa0 \\u201cGreater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.\\u201d

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Why Love Other People?

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1.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Because you are loved.

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(Genesis 12:2 NLT) \\u201cI will bless you\\u2026and you will be a blessing to others.\\u201d

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2.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Because we are created to love.

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(1 John 7-10) (MSG) \\u201cMy beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn\'t know the first thing about God, because God is love\\u2014so you can\'t know him if you don\'t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about\\u2014not that we once upon a time loved God, but thathe loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they\'ve done to our relationship with God.

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The goal of salvation is not reserved for heaven only.\\xa0 It\\u2019s for you to love as many people as you can on earth before going there.

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3.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Because other\\u2019s need our love.

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(1 John 4:11-12) (MSG) \\u201cMy dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us\\u2014perfect love!\\u201d\\xa0

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(Matthew 22:27-40) (MSG) \\u201cJesus said, "\'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.\' This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: \'Love others as well as you love yourself.\' These two commands are pegs; everything in God\'s Law and the Prophets hangs from them."\\u201d

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(Ephesians 3:17-18) (LB)\\xa0 \\u201cI pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart, living within you as you trust Him.\\xa0 May your roots go deep into the soil of God\\u2019s marvelous love, and may you be able to feel and understand\\u2026how long, wide, deep, and high His love really is, and experience this love for yourselves\\u2026\\u201d

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