“The Stranger on the Screen”

From 1 John 4

FACT: For good or for bad, you are by what you see on a .

We make about based on what we on a .

📖 Genesis 2:19 (ESV) Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

TRUTH: If we grow distant from God we grow distant from each other. 

1. There is a in the that be in the .

📖 Colossians 3:11 (ESV) Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

📖 1 John 4:20 (ESV) If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

2. The must our about what we see on the .

📖 1 John 4:21 (ESV) And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

📖 2 Timothy 3:1–5 (ESV) But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

📖 Hebrews 10:25 (ESV) not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

3. We are to love the on the if we remain from the of God.

📖 1 John 4:19 (ESV) We love because he first loved us.

📖 Deuteronomy 23:7 (ESV) You shall not hate an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.

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