John 14:21 -God's command is not only to love Him but to love one another. Jesus never referred to His loving God, but always mentioned loving your neighbor. By loving your neighbor, this was proof you were loving God. Jesus prayed all night so that He could talk to people lovingly in the day.

Compassion - pity, sympathy, anger at suffering of others, that I must do something about it.

l John 3:17 -God's love is never a feeling, God's love is action. Compassion arises and this leads to action.

Feelings are not sin but only become sin when feelings become the motive for which you act.

Love is a choice I make over against other possibilities.

Obedience is acting in response to God but reacting is a response to a situation.

First rule of love is 'FEAR NOT'. I meet objection, I meet abuse, I meet hatred, with forgiveness in the name of Jesus.

The Samaritan is just a story that Jesus tells to warn us to do those things we have not been doing. To begin to do them now.

• Don't pray about it, nothing to pray about, just do it!
• Don't have to ask for God's help, the Holy Spirit is already in us, His compassion is already there, our choice alllows his love to be manifested.

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Wife complaining her unsaved husband or casual christian prevents her from doing her best at church, at bible study when she should be attending to her husband's wounded needs. Her husband is in the ditch. She has to get down into it and begin the healing process rather than spending her time worshipping the worship.

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