Looking for Love

Scriptural Text: (Test 6) - "Loving One Another”

With that being said, I want to reason from this subject, “Looking for Love."

“Looking for Love”

Many are “Looking for Love,” but unable to find it because they don’t know what it is.

Many are “Looking for Love,” but unable to find it because they don’t know what it is.

In the early eighties there was a popular song sung by a group called Foreigner, backed up by the Jersey Mass Choir. The song title was, “I want to know what love is”. It goes something like this:

This mountain I must climb

Seems like the world upon my shoulders

I have nowhere left to hide

Seems that love have finally found me

In my life there have been heartache and pain

I don’t know if can face it again

But I can’t stop down

I have traveled to far to face this lonely life

I want ‘ta know

I want ta know what love is

I want you to tell me

I want’ta know

I want ta know what love is

He Is All I Want

The Lord is my Savior, He is all I want. As I walk up the King’s Highway He walks beside me. He maketh me to lie down in a soft bed at night. He gives me sweet rest till morning light. He bountifully spreads a table before me three times a day. Yea, though I should walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for He walketh with me and will never leave me. He refreshes me many times a day along the way from the wells of Heaven and when we get to the end of the highway we will enter His kingdom, and I shall rest and sing for joy throughout eternity.

—E. M. Arcuri

The world needs love. Jesus told us to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind—. Then to love our neighbor as ourselves. Paul explains the meaning of Christian love in .

Do we really love God? This is the sixth test, the one sure way to measure whether or not we love God: Do we love one another?

Loving one another proves seven things.

1. Loving one another proves that we are born of God and know God (v.7-8). a. People see we have the same nature b. They see that we have been talking and learning of God (; ; Pet. 1:22)

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2. Loving one another proves that we see God's love (v.9-11). a. “God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” b. By salvation, God saves us. c. We love a person as God with love them.

3. Loving one another proves that God's Spirit is within us (v.12-13). a. God is known only by love, only by His Spirit who dwells within us. (; ; ; )

The Matchless Love of God 1. God’s Love Is Capable of Looking Beyond Our Faults 2.God’s Love Was Expressed while We Were Yet Sinners 3.God’s Love Bestows a Rich Heritage on Us ()

2.God’s Love Was Expressed while We Were Yet Sinners

3.God’s Love Bestows a Rich Heritage on Us

“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”

5. Loving one another proves that God is going to deliver from judgment (v.17).

6. Loving one another proves that God delivers us from fear (v.18).

7. Loving one another proves that we love God (v.19-21). Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible - Commentary - The Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – 1 & 2 Peter; 1, 2 & 3 John; Jude.