Supernatural Love, Part 2. Let me call your attention for our study of God's Word tonight to 1 Peter chapter 1, 1 Peter chapter 1. The grass withers and the flower falls off but the Word of the Lord abides forever and this is the word which was preached to you. And as a new Christian you want absolutely nothing to do with the former life. So they would literally market what they didn't eat. That was never a problem for you until you became a Christian, now you're a Christian.
Because Christians don't offend unbelievers they just offend their own. Anyone who doesn't practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother; for this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We are known by our love. We are known by our love. That is what Jesus said and that is what John says and that is what Paul says and it is replete throughout Scripture that that is very basic to our Christian experience.
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So this is a response to the gift of salvation. We are to love one another.
Now we asked some questions. Let's go back to those questions, all right? We now naturally love supernaturally. I'm thinking of 1 Thessalonians 4: 9, . T to love is indicative of the new birth.
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Now would you please notice back into verse 2. Peter notes that this love is a sincere love. It is love without hypocrisy, to take the term out of Romans 1. We have the love, we have the Spirit within us to move that love through us, we have opportunity to love. But who are we to love? It says to love one another.
That is brotherly love. It's really a noun instead of a verb. It says since you've purified your souls for sincere brother- love, for sincere brother- love. We have been given the capacity to love one another in a very unique way. We're to love one another so that men will know that we belong to Christ and we're the family of God. It exceeds all earthly limitations. It is much more important that we demonstrate love to one another than even that we demonstrate love to the outside world because it is the attraction and the love within the church that draws them to us, that affirms that we are Christ's.
John 1. 5: 1. 2, Jesus put it this way, ? So when were we given the capacity to love like this?
He uses it again in chapter 4, would you notice it in verse 8? Twice Peter says it, fervently. Now what does it mean?
It is used to speak of a man. We are to love so that our love reaches very far, stretches to the limit, and covers any iniquity and any transgression with loving, gracious forgiveness. The same word, by the way, is used in Luke 2. Jesus was praying in the garden. He was in agony, He was praying very fervently and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down on the ground. That means He was extremely extended in the matter of prayer, extended to the point where He literally began to ooze from His flesh, as it were, great drops of blood. That kind of love, that stretched fervent love that goes beyond the casual level, which is what most of us experience and little else.
That same word is also used, by the way, as I'm thinking about it, in Acts 1. Peter was kept in prison but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church of God. They were literally praying to the limits that their faith could stretch them. Commentator Hort, who has done so much in the past to help us in understanding the Word of God, writes and I quote, . It is steady and unremitting.
The birth from above is the only consistent and rational justification of such a love, and the ever- flowing stream of life from above from the living and abiding God at once demands this character in love and renders it possible. They stripped him, beat him, and went off leaving him half dead. He didn't want to help that man. But we're talking here about loving the brethren with a fervent love. I don't want you to fuss with sentiment. We only do it to set a standard and set an example for you, to set a pattern and a pace that you might follow.
And what am I doing about it? It's not so much from a requirement. We ask the question, how are we to love? It's to come from the heart. Otherwise we would say, .
How do you know and experience the fruit of the Spirit? And I think I mentioned to some folks that I said, . It's part of our nature to love supernaturally. And that's why, for example, in Philippians 1: 9 Paul says, . We also have the capacity to sin, so Paul prays for the abounding of the potential to love. I want to see it expanded and extended. In 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 3, .
It's almost as if Peter anticipates that someone would say at the end of verse 2. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments.
It literally would be translated . Consistent with that new life is a new love.? This is not a wet verse, this is a dry one.
But verse 6 says, . The body of sin is done away. This is a complete change. Death and new life, and through that union with Christ in His death and that union with Christ in His resurrection, Paul says in Ephesians 4: 2.
That is the pattern of your new life. Secondly, regeneration eliminated your darkened, blinded mind and enlightened your new mind to discern spiritual reality.
And so I want you to look at the concept of being born again from the viewpoint of its decisiveness. The regenerate man in a moment of miraculous time ceased to be the man he was. The old creature is gone, the new creature lives. The new man is out of the reach of condemnation, called to a life of righteousness.
There's a second element here. Not only do I see in this being born again a decisiveness but I also see what theologians called monergism. Iit is the work of Almighty God. So look back at verse 2. You have been born again.
In a decisive moment, an event in redemptive history, you were transformed from darkness to light, from blindness to sight, from the kingdom of Satan to the kingdom of God's dear Son. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. And you are not an object of divine wrath; you are an object of divine love.
So, Peter says, look, love one another. Everything that grows by seeds is a creation of God. They all die, they all die, even the human ones.
And what is that seed? That's the seed God uses, the living and abiding Word of God, the alive and remaining Word of God. The Word lives as God lives. It is as undying as He is undying. In 1 John 3: 9 it says, . His life won't be a pattern of unbroken sin because he has a seed from God. He turns to the Old Testament and just briefly we'll look at it.
Notice it in verse 2. The grass withers and the flower falls off, but the Word of the Lord abides forever. And all its glory, follow this thought, all its glory is like the flower of grass. There is the plain, that's the grass, and the spectacular, that's the flower. But look, the grass, it withers. Flowers were scarlet and other colors.
The point is those two words . Think of the flower of man, art, music, education, culture, architecture, the genius of man, the greatness of man.
If some men may be momentarily conspicuous, standing out among the multitudes, if some men may be momentarily distinguished by rank or riches or learning or status or great deeds or triumphs or successes, all these glories of man are no more abiding than the grass. In Christ you have a new imperishable life. The specific statement out of the general Scripture was preached to you, both are abiding, the total is abiding and the parts are abiding as well. They brought you new birth. So, when did we receive the ability to love?
And why are we to love? It is the truest expression of your new life, the new imperishable life of God that will never fade and never wither and never die.