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Love… Valentine’s Day is upon us, and we are once again inundated with our cultural ideas of love.
Our culture packages love in jewelry boxes, flower bouquets, and boxes of candy.
They tell us that love is found in same sex relationships.
They tell us that we can fall in and out of love in the blink of an eye.
Thus, marriage is seen as simply a temporary arrangement, rather than a life time commitment.
Such an attitude is often used to justify adultery.
Celebrities pair up and break up so regularly that weekly magazines and gossip websites thrive on the intrigue, and we are entertained by this sin.
Contemporary romantic comedies promote an "if-it-feels-good-it-must-be-love" mentality that leaves many people feeling empty—especially when their real life simply can’t compete.
Our culture has largely made us feel dead to love.
In short, we’ve been conned.
The world has turned God’s beautiful creation of love into a cover for sin!
We are told to follow our heart, but the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
(Jer 17:9)
Love—the kind that’s real—doesn’t come gift-wrapped on Valentine’s Day.
It’s not the momentary glow of a fresh relationship.
It’s not the reuniting of two characters in some sappy movie.
Real love is explained in the Bible.
Real love is selfless, sacrificial, and unconditional.
Jesus taught and modeled love
John 15:13
1 John 3:16
In our self-indulgent world, a love so sacrificial and selfless may sound like some impossible ideal, but it’s not.
It really happened, and it happened for us.
No Strings Attached
Personal experience may have taught you that love comes conditionally.
If you mess up, it’s gone.
If you don’t pay the cost, it disappears.
But that’s not real love.
The Bible tells us what real love is
1 Corinthians 13:4–7
And there’s Someone who loves like that.
He gave up more riches than you could imagine to come on a rescue mission.
Although He didn't deserve it, He was betrayed, tortured, and beaten to fulfill that mission.
He died by one of the most painful forms of execution that humans have ever invented.
He loved us and “gave His life a ransom for all”.
Jesus paid the price for love
1 Timothy 2:6
Our Rescuer—Jesus—died out of love.
He lived entirely without sin, yet He walked up a hill in Israel 2,000 years ago and sacrificed His life to save sinners from God’s wrath.
***What does love look like?
Heart/cross illustration
Love is not flowers in the hand, but a hole in the hand.
(Nail scarred hands)
He took the punishment we deserve for our sin.
Romans 5:9
He didn’t put stipulations on His love, like waiting for us to clean up our act first.
Romans 5:8
Jesus died for all
He didn't die for only the “best” of mankind.
1 Corinthians 1:26
He died for all, even the worst of the worst, because He loves us and wants us in His family.
Jesus lives for all
Three days later, Jesus rose to life just as He proclaimed, proving He is the Son of God.
Matthew 12:40
Revelation 1:18
He proved that He can indeed give us new life.
God is true love
1 John 4:8
and it beautifully summarizes what He did:
John 3:16
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