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Most are confused with what true love is: We think of it as the latest Disney movie were 2 people date and then get married. And they live happily ever after. We think of it as the emotional high that we experience when dating.
Those are aspects of love. But we cannot define what true love is until we know the Creator because the Bible says God is love.
First there is 3 aspects to love
1) Eros - A word which suggests sensual desire and sexual drives. It goes no deeper than the physical drives.
1) Eros - A word which suggests sensual desire and sexual drives. It goes no deeper than the physical drives.
This includes physical attraction. Infatuation, This is what we see in the movies. Some call it puppy love. Some call it lust. In and of it self God created but can easily be perverted. There is only one context that this type of love is ok. Marriage.
2) Phileo - Used for friendship, or love for your friends and relatives. You love them because they are worthy of your love. Phileo love goes no deeper than the emotional part of a peron.
2) Phileo - Used for friendship, or love for your friends and relatives. You love them because they are worthy of your love. Phileo love goes no deeper than the emotional part of a peron.
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This deals with the soul part of man. I love you as you love me or are useful to me or you fit into my purpose. I love you if you look a certain way. If you believe like I believe. If your interested in what I’m interested in. If you serve me. If you follow God. If you worship like I do.
These last two loves are described as human love. It will only go so far. It has limits. It can only go as long as human strength propels it.
3) Agape - God’s love: the purest, deepest kind of love. It is not expressed through mere emotions, but it is expressed as a act of one’s will.
3) Agape - God’s love: the purest, deepest kind of love. It is not expressed through mere emotions, but it is expressed as a act of one’s will.
God’s love is best described in
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
1 Cor 13:4-
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. 5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification. 6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching? 7 Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played?