 I love you, is that enough to you, or do you need more? And today on Inspiration Vibe we are talking about love, we are beginning this love series just to help us understand what love is and what love means to you or to me. So you are just going to put it into perspective so that we can understand what love is. So we are going to break it down into three. So our first part of love on our love series is love is action. So what is action? Action is just an act, a thing done or doing something for a particular reason. So love is action so you do something for a purpose. So on our Inspiration Vibe today our love is action. It comes from the book of verse John chapter 3 verse 11 to 18 and I'm going to just read it so that we can understand what love is. Okay which says this is the message you had from the beginning. We should love one another. Do not be like King who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brothers were rashes. Do not be surprised my brothers if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has internal life in him. 16, 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 verse 17. If anyone has material positions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him. How can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. Today you are looking at love is action and you are saying action is just doing something for a purpose or an act. So we are going to focus mostly on verse 16 and 18. You know love, obedience and rashesness those are evidence of a believer. That is the reason why the Bible says that that is the reason why love is the greatest command in the Bible. You can find that in Matthew 22, 36 to 38. So in verse 16 which you are going to focus on, you are focusing on 16 and 18. So verse 16, John just makes a connection between our love for each other, how we love each other, the people around you, how we love each other and the Christ love for us. So he compares the two because Christ is such a great example. Christ is the best example of what love is. As in imagine Christ with all his glory he left it behind to come on earth to die for you and me. As in say hakuwa nasina, Jesus Christ did not have any sin. He did not commit any sin but he left all his glory, his Lord on his own. So he left all his glory and came on earth to die for you and me. As in what kind of love is that? That is the best example of love. So we ought to love each other by laying our life down. So I'm asking you this money, does that mean we lay our life down just like Christ did for us? That is in verse 16 which says 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 brother. Does that mean that I have to die for DJ Nix or I have to die for Lin to show him I love him? If your answer is yes, it simply means you need to love sacrificially because love is continuous. Love is a continuous, conscious decision to sacrifice for someone else. So you sacrifice but as in you just make up your mind I'm going to sacrifice for this person. For instance I have 300 shelling between me and everything I have 300 shelling. And Lin comes to me, you know Miriam, can you at least give me 200 shelling? And I'm like wow, wow interesting times. What will you do? Just go ahead give Lin 200 shelling, remain with that one shelling. Not just 100 shelling, not because you don't have problems. It's because his problem is way, way, way needing compared to yours. So you give sacrificially, you sacrifice and give money, you sacrifice and give time, you sacrifice and give resources. So you continuously sacrifice for this person, putting action into your love. You just don't say I love you, God will provide for you. Endana mani mungu ata kupate yo miambili, no. You make up your mind, you decide and you give this person whatever they need. If it's time, it's resources, if it's money, whatever you give sacrificially. Also on verse 18 which says, Dear children, let us not love with words or term, but with actions and in truth. So you put actions in your words, your words which is I love you because love, just saying I love you is not enough. And Christ gave us so many examples on how we loved people. During that time, during his ministry, those 33 years he lived on earth, he gave us very good example and I will just mention a few. Christ mingled with sinners. Christ mingled with sinners. He ate with tax collectors which did not sit well with the Pharisees or the teachers of law. But Christ mingled with them and sat with them, ate with them. And by the time Christ was leaving them, they were never, never the same again. Also Christ raised the debt. He raised Lazarus because Christ loved Lazarus. So he put actions into his word. He met the Samaritan woman at the well. He did not run away because during that time Jews were not allowed to interact with the Samaritan, especially women. How? But Christ sat on that wheel and waited for an interaction with the Samaritan woman and after that she was never the same. Christ came and interacts with you and you are never the same again. So let us practice what you preach. If you say you love, you put actions into it. It is important to communicate. Yes, I love you through words. Yes, it is really important also because some people need that information. Apart from just acting, they also need that information. Yes, it is okay. But as much as it is important, also put actions into it. Christ gave us a good example. We need to preach also before I forget the example of that Samaritan woman. Sometimes when it comes to our brothers and sisters, we are afraid to mingle with, we call sinners or unbelievers. So we are afraid to mingle with these people. But let me tell you something. If we show our actions of love to this person, sometimes you don't need to preach to them. We are afraid to mingle with these people. No, just by our actions towards our brothers. Only that will draw them to Christ. Only that, your action of love to that person who is next to you, who is not a believer. Show them love. It will draw them to Christ. And I want to hear Holy Spirit hafanya the rest to convict and everything else. So let us communicate our love through actions as well. And let us not love with words alone, but put actions into our words of love. And that marks our end over inspiration. Vaibnix, you have anything to add on that? Actually when you say we have to love with action, the biggest example we can find is our God. Our Father in heaven. Ha kutwambietu wanatu penatu. But in the Bible, ila vas komonsana inakwa na memori vas kuatu. When he loved us, what did he do? He gave. So when you claim unapenda, you will passionate about something or even someone. Show with action. Yeah, and the next time I will show with action. God will help His only son so that we can be saved, so that we can have. And if you want to go to God, go through Christ and of course reach the Father. And you will be the biggest example in your life. But if you want to go to God, go through God. You put action because love is action.