37. Love
Love means doing something
In Your Bible Read This
Ephesians 5, 21-6.9
Here Is Your Memory Verse
By this all men will know that you are my disciples,
if you love one another. John 13.35
Afterwards Talk About
This
Which love language do you understand best?
Probably everyone is different!
Something To Do Before
Next Time
Find out by looking, listening and asking which love language
people
you know respond to - spouses, friends, parents. Do or say
something
to fill their lives with the kind of love they understand best!
Written Diploma Work
If you were a pastor how could you make sure that the five
love
languages were all being spoken to your people.
In what ways could you ‘speak’ to them? Write two pages.
Meditate Word By Word On
This Verse
Ephesians 4.26
Learn to put aside your own desires so that you will become patient and godly, gladly letting God have his way with you. This will make possible the next step, which is for you to enjoy other people and to like them and finally you will grow to love them deeply. 2 Peter 1, 6-8, The Living Bible.
In 1 Corinthians 13.1-13 Paul perfectly describes real love, that is love in action for the glory of God not the mere warm mushy feeling as we see in films today.
1. It`s Love That Makes Us Special!
God does not just have love or give love, he is actually totally love by nature, personality and very being. As his family we are distinguished from all other people by his presence amongst us and by his loving nature expressed through us into a world where people generally only love themselves and their nearest and dearest.
It’s Love Or Nothing
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13.1-2
2. How Can We Love All These People?
Thankfully we have all the help we need because Paul tells us that God pours out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom he has given us. We can only love like this with his love, because our own love, even at its hottest, will never be sufficient. Romans 5.5
3. First Of All We Want To Love God.
In Mark 12.30, Jesus says that the most important command of all is to love the Lord our God and here is how.
4. Loving God Means Loving Neighbours.
The second command is like it. `Love your neighbour as yourself.' Mark 12.31. In just the same way as we look after and provide for ourselves we should care for our neighbours.
5. Loving God Means Loving Yourself .
Jesus said you should but how hard that is for some people who feel that they have never been loved as children. Perhaps they were dearly loved but they just didn’t feel it. If you don’t think much of yourself try looking at yourself again from above, from God’s point of view. Here is how much God loves you, enough to send his Son to die for you so you could be in his loving embrace forever.
- He has blessed you.
- He has chosen you.
- He loves you.
- He has accepted and adopted you.
- He has paid a very high price for you.
- He has forgiven you.
- He has given you the riches of his grace, wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and his Holy Spirit as well.
- Ephesians 1, 3-14
Yes, you are unworthy but you do have great worth in the eyes of God. Knowing that God loves you that much, helps you to love yourself. You are that important.
6. And Our Marriage Partners.
Husbands must love their wives and the women may be trained to love their husbands. Ephesians 5.25, Titus 2.4.
7. And Loving The Brothers.
Read your powerful John 13.35 memory verse again. Hebrews 13.1, 1 John 4.7
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