The message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another

1 John 3:11-24

For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

Why?

Love is the basic action to every Christian, if we have faith but do not have the love action, all this faith is in vain.

Jesus Christ laid down his life for us, we ought to lay down our lives for out brothers and sisters.

If our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God, this heart comes from the Lord, the Holy Spirit. If we don't care about this condemnation, then we will fall in the way of evil.

How?

Love everyone besides me, for I belong to the Lord, love each other, especially love brothers and sisters.