Fresh Start Christian Church
Topic: Peace and Favor
Main Scripture: 1 John 4:4-11,19
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. We love Him because He first loved us.
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Walking in Love, Pt.3 – 1 John 3:16-18
- Agape – the special unconditional love of God; often called God-like love or biblical love; meaning to love the understanding, despite disappointment and rejection.
- Biblical love has God as its object, true motivator, and source (cf. 1 John 4:7-8)
- Love is not based on emotions or feelings. It is a decision to be committed to the well-being of others without any conditions or circumstances.
- Love God, love our neighbor, love yourself
- Upward, outward, inward
- Love God by keeping His commandments
Loving Our Neighbor
- Showing compassion, meeting needs, sacrificing for others
Love is/Does
- Suffers long/patient
- Kind
- Encouraging; genuinely happy for others
- Humble
- Humble
- Kind mannerly
- Selfless
- Forgiving; thinks heavenly
- Rejoices in the truth
- Bear all things; bears up under anything and everything that comes
- Believes all things, believes the best of every person
- Hope all things, fadeless under all circumstances
- Endures all things without weakening, preserving
- Everlasting
Love is not/does not
- Impatient
- Mean
- Envy; boil over with jealousy
- Parade itself, boastful
- Puffed up, conceited, arrogant, inflated with pride
- Seeks its own, insists on its own rights or its own ways, not self-seeking
- Behave rudely, unmannerly, or acting unbecoming
- Think evil, take account of evil done to it
- Rejoices in iniquity
- Give up, bear up under some things when it is convenient
- Look for the worst in people
- Doubt all things, cynical (negative opinion about everything)
- Give up, rejecting
- Have an end, ending
Action Steps: Memory Verse: 1 John 3:16
Additional Scriptures: Matthew 22:35-40, 1 Corinthians 13: 1-8, 13, Galatians 6:1, Philippians 2:1-8, Ephesians 4:26, James 1:19, Proverbs 24:17-18, Romans 5:5
Announcements:
Sunday Worship Service in-person and via Facebook Live weekly at 10:30 am. There will also be a virtual fellowship via Zoom after service. Communion will be observed every third Sunday of the month. Those in need of communion cups, please register here: https://forms.gle/f7nB5kCucS7aQzZ76.
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Children’s Church in-person every Sunday at 10:30am. For more information click here: Children’s Church
Griffin Toastmasters is held the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Please email freshstartccga@gmail.com if you would like to attend. Next meeting: November 11, 2025