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Love Beyond Measure: God’s Perfect Love

History of Valentines Day

Named after St Valentine of the Roman Church but who was he and why has this become such a day of celebration

He was a interesting fellow to say the Least a Priest a Romantic and a bit of a Rebel

Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.

Valentine was also a mytar who was helping Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, an imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl—possibly his jailor’s daughter—who visited him during his confinement.

When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Valentine was a man who served God and others. He loved Christ and His neighbor, By his actions we can see a example of a man living out Christs Love at all costs.

Throughout Scripture, Christ is the embodiment of God's love—His sacrifice on the cross demonstrates the ultimate act of love and invites us to reflect that love in our personal and casual relationships. Valentine’s Day can serve as an opportunity to model this divine love in our interactions with others.

1. Source of True Love

1 John 4:7–10 NASB95

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

God's perfect love is both the source and example of true love. Through His love, we are invited to love others selflessly and sacrificially just as Christ loved us. This point can challenge and should challenge each of us to reevaluate your understandings of love, transcending mere words to actions reflecting God’s love, especially significant on Valentine's Day.

Love is a action not a emotion

1 Corinthians 13:1–7 NASB95

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

2. Measure of Sacrificial Love

John 15:12–13 NASB95

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

Consider with me for a moment profound nature of Christ’s command to love others as He loved us. really think of this. Here, the measure of love is sacrifice, depicting the ultimate love through Jesus' willingness to lay down His life. This calls believers to a higher standard of love, highlighting that the greatest love is self-sacrifice, and invites them to consider how they can apply this in their lives.

Throughout history the Christian faith has been bought by blood First with our dear and precious saviour Jesus. But many followed for what they believed and for the betterment of others.

William Tyndale

Some will and have been called to lay down their live for Jesus and for others

Story of communist soldier

Some will definitly be called to pick up thier cross and follow him would you, for some that may be a simple as letting go of a addiction to drugs alchol pornography gossip or whatever other sinful pleasure they love. But for others it has and will cost them their lives . Could you do it

Jesus say’s if we deny him he will deny us

for some this may be just not speaking up for jesus

for others it may be just sitting in that pew unwilling to be brought to your kness out of fear of what others might think and for the Giants

Like the little boy in Somolia

Story

It may be willing to Die for your lord and saviour

3. Demonstration of Unconditional Love

Romans 5:8 NASB95

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

t God’s demonstration of love in Christ dying for us ‘while we were still sinners’ illustrates how true love is unconditional. This unconditional aspect of divine love calls us to love others without prejudice or limit.

Can you see beyond the romanticized views of love and understand the depth of God’s grace. He is calling you

To love your wife like He loved you even while you were a mess unperfect in every way a work in progress he loved you

he is calling you ladies to love your husband even when he hasn't got to the trash , no matter what be does or doesn't do

My Hope is that this sermon emphasizes that love is not merely a feeling but a choice manifested through our actions. It calls all of us to consider how we can express God's love in their daily lives, particularly on Valentine's Day and beyond.

How Can we Use this message

My Hope is that this will encourage all of us to reflect on the nature of their love for God and others, challenging us to carry the same selfless love that Christ demonstrated. It serves as a reminder that true love transcends romantic gestures and is rooted in kindness, compassion, and sacrifice.