Message by Pastors Jason on Wednesday evening, January 16, 2019
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)
- 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.(God’s Unconditional Love)
(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.
(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.
(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
(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 thingsLongsuffering – Is love enduring patiently in all thingsGentleness – Is love acting kindly at all times, in all thingsGoodness – Is love acting in the best interest of allFaith – Is love always acting in truth.Meekness – Is love serving in lowliness of mind without selfish ambitionsTemperance – Is love restraining, having control of your desires and appetitesAlso, these are the attributes of love:
- Love is the standard of discipleship
Love givesLove servesLove CaresLove energizesLove is the evidence of faithLove motivatesLove hold us together