File-Sharing Case

Unites Unlikely Allies

By Alexis Viega
LOS ANGELES Feb 27, 2005

“…a cadre of those groups are

stepping up to back the
entertainment industry in its moment
of need: a high-stakes battle against
online file-sharing services that has
reached the nation's highest court.”
Text: 2 Peter 1:5-8

Topic: Growth in Christian Virtue.

Thesis: Believers must work out

their own salvation.

Title: Climbing
the Christian Construct,
Step Eight-Love
 God’s love, agape, is love
______. Combined with the telling
of the resurrection of Jesus from
the dead, this message of
universal love turned __________
upside down.
 God’s love, agape, is love
for all. Combined with the telling
of the resurrection of Jesus from
the dead, this message of
universal love turned the world
upside down.
 Agape is…

1.Not About ,
It’s About .

“In all this I have given you an example

that by such work we must support the weak,
remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for
he himself said, ‘It is more ___________ to
give than to receive.’"
(Acts 20:35 NRSV)
 Agape is…

1.Not About Receiving,

It’s About Giving.

“In all this I have given you an example

that by such work we must support the weak,
remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for
he himself said, ‘It is more ___________ to
give than to receive.’"
(Acts 20:35 NRSV)
 Agape is…

1.Not About Receiving,

It’s About Giving.

“In all this I have given you an example

that by such work we must support the weak,
remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for
he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to
give than to receive.’"
(Acts 20:35 NRSV)
 "For God so loved the world that
he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may
not perish but may have eternal life.”

(John 3:16 NRSV)

Agape is…

2.Not , It’s .

Agape is a ____.
Agape is…

2.Not Passive, It’s Active.

Agape is a ____.
Agape is…

2.Not Passive, It’s Active.

Agape is a verb.
 “Love is _______; love is _____;
love is not envious or boastful or
arrogant or rude. It does not insist on
its own way; it is not irritable or
resentful; it does not rejoice in
wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.
It ____ all things, ______ all things,
____ all things, _____ all things.”
(1 Co13:4-7 NRSV)
 “Love is patient; love is kind;
love is not envious or boastful or
arrogant or rude. It does not insist on
its own way; it is not irritable or
resentful; it does not rejoice in
wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.”
(1 Co13:4-7 NRSV)
n’t it great to be accepte
 Kingdom Point:
God is not willing that
any should _____.
 Kingdom Point:
God is not willing that
any should perish.
 Kingdom Point:
“Say to them, As I live, says the
Lord GOD, I have no ________ in the
death of the wicked, but that the
wicked ____ from their ways and live;
turn back, turn back from your evil
ways; for why will you die, O house of
Israel?”
(Eze. 33:11 NRSV)
 Kingdom Point:
“Say to them, As I live, says the
Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked, but that the
wicked turn from their ways and live;
turn back, turn back from your evil
ways; for why will you die, O house of
Israel?”
(Eze. 33:11 NRSV)
 Agape is…

3.Not ,
It’s .

"If you love those who love you,

what credit is that to you? For even
_______ love those who love them.”
(Luke 6:32 NRSV)
 Agape is…

3.Not Reciprocal,
It’s Unilateral.

"If you love those who love you,

what credit is that to you? For even
_______ love those who love them.”
(Luke 6:32 NRSV)
 Agape is…

3.Not Reciprocal,
It’s Unilateral.

"If you love those who love you,

what credit is that to you? For even
sinners love those who love them.”
(Luke 6:32 NRSV)
Climbing toward maturity means we…
“…must make every effort to support our
________________, and ______________,
and ________________, and
_____________________, and
________________, and
_____________________, and
_________________. For if these things are
yours and are increasing among you, they keep
you from being ___________ and
____________ in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ.”
(2 Peter 1:5-8 NRSV)
Climbing toward maturity means we…
“…must make every effort to support our
faith with goodness, and goodness with
knowledge, and knowledge with self-control,
and self-control with endurance, and
endurance with godliness, and godliness
with mutual affection, and mutual affection
with love. For if these things are yours and are
increasing among you, they keep you from
being ineffective and unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2Pe 1:5-8
NRSV)