Rules of Engagement: Agape Love

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Types of Love

EROS

STORGE - This Greek word describes family love, the affectionate bond that develops naturally between parents and children, and brothers and sisters.

PHILEO - is the type of intimate love in the Bible that most Christians practice toward each other. This Greek term describes the powerful emotional bond seen in deep friendships.

AGAPE - is the highest of the four types of love in the Bible. This term defines God's immeasurable, incomparable love for humankind. It is the divine love that comes from God. Agape love is perfect, unconditional, sacrificial, and pure. Jesus Christdemonstrated this kind of divine love to his Father and to all humanity in the way he lived and died.

What is AGAPE LOVE?

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love NEVER fails.

: “Do everything in love."

: “Do everything in love."

: “With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails.

What keeps a marriage:

God

TRUTH

Man

God -

The architect, author, implements it and judges it - part of the designed it between man and woman

holds it - powered by truth and implementing truth

strengthens it - He is the physics behind it (gravity is emphatically realized when you jump from a tall building)

2. Truth

What is Love?

IS patient

IS kind

not jealous

does not brag

not arrogant

not act unbecomingly

not seek its own

not provoked (not easily angered)

not take into account suffering

does not rejoice in unrighteousness

rejoices with truth

bears all things

believes all things

hopes all things

endures all things

All of the above verbs will preserve and prolong marriage throughout the lifetime of the couple.

They are preventive.

Notice all these verbs are to be exercise by individually by husband and wife for unity.

Devil - liar, deceiver, destroyer, divides

2. Man -

The doer - God’s sets the truth and man implements it.

description of love - God uses verbs to describe

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, [h]he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and [i]He has [j]committed to us the word of reconciliation.