Let Love Be Genuine - Romans 12:9-16

Believers are to use their gifts humbly and corporately to build up the body of Christ and bring glory to God.

 

True worship entails dedicating your whole self to God.

 

"I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my 
disciples, if you love one another." - Jesus Christ (John 13:34-35)

 

Love one another genuinely, like Jesus, from the inside out.

 

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant 
offering to God. - Ephesians 5:1-2

 

"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his 
friends." - John 15:12-13

 

1. Our allegiance (v. 9)

 

2. Our affection (v. 10)

 

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. - Romans 12:10 NIV

 

3. Our actions (vv. 11-13)

 

The temptation to lose steam in our lifelong responsibility to reverence God in every aspect of our lives, to become lazy and complacent in our pursuit of 
what is "good, well pleasing to God, and perfect," is a natural one - but it must be resisted.
- Douglas Moo

 

"treating a person, perhaps a stranger, nobly and magnanimously in the context of one's home, joyfully seeking to bring that person refreshment." 

 

Love one another genuinely, like Jesus, from the inside out.