What is Love
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That is the question we will be answering tonight.
There are many things that we love. We love football, we love food, we love technology, we love TV shows and movies, we love hobbies, friends, pets, clothes, shoes, and on and on.
Love Sacrifices
Love Sacrifices
One Sabbath, when he went in to eat at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching him closely. There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
luke 14:1-2
Sacrificial Love is Olaf saying to Elsa as he stood by Elsa’s side to encourage her, “Some people are worth melting for”
Sacrificial Love is Gandalf standing on the Bridge of Khazadum putting his life on the line to protect his friends from danger.
Jesus who puts himself in harms way on the Cross so that we may live. It was Jesus who was the true Olaf, sacrificing himself so that we could have hope. It was Jesus who was the true Gandalf, who stared death in the face, screaming you shall not pass. And it was Jesus who walked into the Forbidden Forrest of Sin, so that we could have life.
Real love is sacrificial...
We are called to love like Jesus loved...
1 john 4:7-21
1 john 4:
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and his love is made complete in us. This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as the world’s Savior. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God—God remains in him and he in God. And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears is not complete in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother or sister whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.
We love out of the overflow of Jesus’ love for us...
Love isnt contingent upon your feelings, it is a decision that we make to sacrifice ourselves for the benefit of others…and it comes from God.
So how do you become a better lover?
You look to Jesus, how is Love manifest, and as you bathe yourself in his love for you, you will find the motivation and the means to love others as you ought to love.
All of these stories are fictional…but they all are shadows of the true story about Jesus Christ
Jesus who puts himself in harms way on the Cross so that we may live. It was Jesus who was the true Olaf, sacrificing himself so that we could have hope. It was Jesus who was the true Gandalf, who stared death in the face, screaming you shall not pass. And it was Jesus who walked into the Forbidden Forrest of Sin, so that we could have life.
Real love is sacrificial…We are called to sacrifice our lives for others, just like Jesus sacrificed his life for us.
Love Confronts
Love Confronts
And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”
And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.
In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away.
luke 14:3-
Jesus loves these Pharisees enough to help them understand what true religion is....loving God and loving People
The Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus so that they could get rid of him, but Jesus traps them by showing them that they were the ones who were breaking the law because they were failing to love people in need…therefore revealing that they didnt love God at all.
They loved their laws more than the law-giver
They loved their
My son has a habit of throwing a tempur tantrum when he doesnt get his way...
When he goes crazy I have to drop everything Im doing, take the time to explain to him what he did wrong, and then discipline him.
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Love Serves
Love Serves
But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” And they could not reply to these things.
But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” And they could not reply to these things.
Jesus shows how much he loves by meeting a real need from a man who was sick.
Luke14:
Harry finds out that he must die in order that evil wouldnt win. He goes in the Forbidden Forrest and surrendurs himself to Voldemort. Voldemort casts the curse of death on him not knowing that in killing Harry he was actually killing himself....
Jesus Christ entered the Forbidden Forrest, as he stood before the crowd being condemned for sin that was not his own. He took the punishment that we deserved so that we could experience the blessing of abudant life. He