What Lies Beneath - How To Love Others New Song Church OKC

Loving Others Well 
Matthew 22:34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” 
The goal of the christian life is to love well.
John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
How you love matters!
We have created a fragility in our life that requires uniformity.
 “The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.” — Ellen G. White
“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”— Brennan Manning
The greatest apologetic against christianity are christians — Darren Rouanzoin
1 John 4:20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. 
John 13:34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Philippians 2:5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Jesus put some skin on!
Incarnate - embodied in flesh; in human form.
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14  The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.
To love us well, Jesus entered into our world. 
The love of Jesus is incarnational.
God knows we needed his skin, not simply the knowledge that he is everywhere. People today are desperate for "skin" — to be loved, for someone to incarnate with them. For this reason, people will pay $100 to $150 an hour to a therapist as someone to love them, to enter and to care about their world. Today, God still has physical skin and can be seen, touched, heard, and tasted. How? Through his body, the church, in whom he dwells. We are called, in the name of Jesus and by the indwelling Holy Spirit, to be skin for people all around us.— Pete Scazzero
Romans 5:6-8 Christ didn’t, and doesn’t, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn’t been so weak, we wouldn’t have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
Matthew 5:9, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
Jesus was after true peace, not false peace.
A peacemaker is someone who is willing to resolve both outer and inner turmoil in order to establish peace with others and within themselves.  
A peacekeeper desires to maintain peace by avoiding conflict. They typically give in to the tension or steer clear of disagreement to keep others happy. 
Matthew 10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
The true peace of Jesus is in conflict with the lies and pretense of the kingdom of the world! 
 There will be confl