How Do I Love You

Or Do I Love You

What is Love?

What do people say?

Love is blind

Love is sometimes stupid

Love makes you lack judgement

Love makes you do dumb things

Genesis 29:20 NASB95

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

So what is Love? Real Love

Galatians 5:22 NASB95

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 13:10 NASB95

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 NASB95

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 John 4:7–8 NASB95

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Romans 5:8 NASB95

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Is Love a good thing?

Psalm 145:20 NASB95

The Lord keeps all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy.

Proverbs 10:12 NASB95

Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all transgressions.

1 Corinthians 13:1 NASB95

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Peter 4:8 NASB95

Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

Colossians 3:14 NASB95

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

Is Love required?

Deuteronomy 6:5 NASB95

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

John 15:17 NASB95

“This I command you, that you love one another.

Ephesians 5:25 NASB95

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

How much do I love you?

Or do I love you at all?

Love requires action

John 14:15 NASB95

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 13:35 NASB95

“By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Love is expressed through action

Proverbs 17:9 NASB95

He who conceals a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.

Love is determined by action

John 15:13 NASB95

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

What I do shows how much I love others or how much I love myself

Galatians 5:14 NASB95

For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love is expressed, not by what I say but what I do

1 John 3:18 NASB95

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

Love is a language and people speak it and hear it in different ways

Love wants to know someone Love wants to understand someone Love wants to find out what it takes to make someone else feel loved

So what about you?

How is your first Love going?

With your Husband/Wife/God

Solution

Revelation 2:4–5 NASB95

‘But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. ‘Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.