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Love Study – Part 2

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Message by Pastors Jason on Wednesday evening, January 16, 2019

Synopsis:

In the Greek language, there are four words describing different types of love:

  • Eros Love – Physical, sensual intimacy between a husband and wife. Expresses sexual, romantic attraction.
  • Storge Love – Family affectionate love (familial love). A natural or instinctual affection, like love of a parent towards offspring and vice versa. (The opposite of storge love is astorge – without natural love)
  • Phileo Love – Having tender affectionate love. A strong liking or strong friendship.
  • Agape Love – A universal, unconditional, sacrificial love that transcends and persists regardless of circumstance.

    • In “Love Study – Part 2” we’ll study the greatest of these, Agape love (God’s Love)

    Agape Love

    • A God kind of love, unconditional, sacrificial, not based on response and/or getting it (love) back.
  • Its not controlled by emotions, or led by feelings or affections.
  • A love that hold no regard to the unlovableness of another.

    • Scriptures:

    Agape Love

    (God’s Unconditional Love)

    1st John 4:7-11(KJV):

    (4:7) Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (4:8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (4:9) In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (4:10) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (4:11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

    John 3:16 (KJV):

    (3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

    1st Corinthians 13:4-8 (NASB):

    (13:4) Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, (13:5) does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, (13:6) does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; (13:7) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (13:8) Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

    Mark 12:30 (KJV):

    (12:30) And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

    The Fruits of the Spirits

    Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV):

    (5:22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (5:23) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

    These fruits express all the assets of love:

    • Joy – Is love rejoicing in all things
  • Peace – Is love trusting in all things
  • Longsuffering – Is love enduring patiently in all things
  • Gentleness – Is love acting kindly at all times, in all things
  • Goodness – Is love acting in the best interest of all
  • Faith – Is love always acting in truth.
  • Meekness – Is love serving in lowliness of mind without selfish ambitions
  • Temperance – Is love restraining, having control of your desires and appetites

    • Also, these are the attributes of love:

    • Love is the standard of discipleship
  • Love gives
  • Love serves
  • Love Cares
  • Love energizes
  • Love is the evidence of faith
  • Love motivates
  • Love hold us together
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