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Let Us Put On Love Above All These Things
(Colossians 3:12-14)

​Introduction:

         1. This chapter begins by teaching us to seek things that are above and why we are to do so (vs.1-4).
         2. We are taught in vs.5-11 to mortify and put off sinful activities and why we are to do so.
         3. In vs.12-13 we are instructed to put on 7 special characteristics, including mercy, kindness, humility,
             meekness, longsuffering [patience], forbearance, and forgiveness.
         4. According to vs.14, we are to put on love "above all these things" -- it is described as "the bond of
             perfection."
         5. In our lesson we are pointing out 7 reasons why we must put on love above all these things.

Discussion:


I.           #1:  LOVE  IS  A  COMMAND  OF  CHRIST  (John 13:34-35)


II.          #2:  LOVE  IS  A  COMPREHENSIVE  COMMAND  (Romans 13:8-10)


III.         #3:  LOVE  IS  EVERLASTING  (1 Corinthians 13:8a, 13)


IV.         #4:  LOVE  IS  THE  MOTIVATION  FOR  OUR  SERVICE  (1 Corinthians 13:3; Galatians 5:13-14)


V.          #5:  LOVE  WILL  ELIMINATE  MANY  THINGS,  INCLUDING:


         A. people biting and devouring each other (Galatians 5:15)
         B. "hatred," a work of the flesh that will keep a person out of God's kingdom (Galatians 5:20)
         C. the sins listed in Galatians 5:26 [desire for vain glory, provocation, envy].

VI.         #6:  LOVE  IS  THE  FIRST  OF  9  CHARACTERISTICS  THAT  MAKE  UP  THE  FRUIT  OF  THE
             SPIRIT  (Galatians 5:22-23)


VII.        #7:  LOVE  IS  THE  LAST  OF  7  CHARACTERISTICS  KNOWN  AS  "THE  CHRISTIAN  GRACES"
             (2 Peter 1:5-7)


Conclusion:


         1. Some very helpful instructions are given in Colossians 3.
         2. Let us:
             a. seek those things that are above (vs.1-4)
             b. mortify and put off the sinful activities listed in vs.5-11
             c. put on the 7 characteristics listed in vs.12-13
             d. put on love above all these things -- it is the bond of perfection.
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