The Love that Won't Let me Go

The Love that Won’t Let Me Go – Romans 8:28-39

Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.

The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[1] Others maintain that love exists but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature.

Types

Courtly love – a late medieval conventionalized code prescribing certain conduct and emotions for ladies and their lovers.
Erotic love – desire characterized by sexual desires.
Familial love – affection brokered through kinship connections, intertwined with concepts of attachment and bonding.
Free love – sexual relations according to choice and unrestricted by marriage.
Platonic love – a close relationship in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated.
Puppy love – romantic affection felt between or as though between adolescents.
Religious love – devotion to one’s deity or theology.
Romantic love – affection characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire.
Unrequited love – affection and desire not reciprocated or returned.

There are also 6 greek terms for differing types of love.

Eros-- erotic love; sometimes portrayed as romantic love. More characterized by passion to a singular person and sexual desire.
Platonic-- love between friends, or love where sexual desires are not present (sometimes is referred to under philos instead)
Storge-- a friendly, affectionate type of love. Sometimes has been portrayed as parental or familial love.
Philos-- a pluralistic type of "love"; also sometimes written as a friendship type of love.
Agape-- selfless, giving love, the love one has for all of humanity or for others simply because of their human nature.
Mania-- obsessive love. (a minor type of love)

I don’t Know why Jesus loves me

I don’t Know why he cares

I don’t know why he sacrificed his life

But, Oh I am Glad, So Glad He did

God orchestrates every event in our life to make it good. He uses two key factors to demonstrate that that his love can never be broken.

They are our experiences and persons.

Experiences:

· Tribulation- the kind of adversity and trials of life common to all men, a time of great pressure

· Distress – Hemmed in by circumstances; feelings of helplessness

· Persecution-Suffering inflicted on us by other because of our relationship with God

· Famine- Dry seasons; time of lack or shortage of something in your life

· Nakedness- Exposed of everything

· Peril- danger, risk

· Sword- attacked by a weapons

Angels – demonic forces

Principalities- governments, powers

Present, nor things to come

Nor height, nor depth – Nothing in your life from beginning to end; high or low in all of space can separate us from the Love of God

Nor any other created thing- Just in case somebody thinks that they can bring something else your way nothing created can separate you from his love.This covers everything and everybody. You can’t stop Christ from loving me because it is a love that won’t let me go.

You are more than Conquerors – To Over-conquer without any real threat. To gain by force, win overthrow, vanquish. What I thought was a threat really was not a threat at all