Love
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Love is a GIFT from God and it’s the Evidence of faith
Why the series
Why the series
My prayer
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Fruit is proof of life
Galatians - Fight over Identity
What is the purpose of Fruit?
Nutrients for others
How do we produce Good fruit?
Soil and water
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
What do we think of when we think of Love?
What do we think of when we think of Love?
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Universal Truth
An Idea
A common thread of all religions
A neurological or biological phenomenon
A means to reproduction
An emotion
Love allows us not to be free of rules its a new guide
Anyone who receives or gives love is not objective about it - but we need it
Baby
What does the Bible mean by love?
What does the Bible mean by love?
Love is the answer to both legalism and license
Love is a GIFT from God and it’s the Evidence of faith
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Gift from God
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Love is the test of belonging to God and knowing God
Evidence of faith
Jesus said
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
What does love look like?
What does love look like?
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.
Love God
No record of wrong
Always perseveres
Love Yourself
2 extremes
Rejoices in the Truth
Love Others
Not proud
Always hopes
Belonging to and knowing God is visible in Love of self and others
Love is a GIFT from God and it’s the Evidence of faith