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What Is Love?
Contributed by Grant Adams on Aug 2, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: You could get hundreds of answers to this question. The true answer is found in God. God so loved the world.
The greatest love ever expressed was the love shown to a Christ denying world when Christ died upon the cross for the sins of all mankind. Love was manifest at Calvary. Many Christian people are not really sure God loves them, even after he has saved us. Sometimes because of the trying circumstances of this life. For some the Bible is not enough to assure them. That is true of many homes today. The wife is not sure if the husband loves her or not. The husband is not sure about his wife. The children do not know if their parents love them. The one thing the human heart craves is love.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7, Solomon says love is as strong as death. As death that cannot be denied, the love God is talking about cannot be stopped, verse 7. Everything without love equals nothing. This world is crying for love. Five thoughts concerning love today:
I. Love is Unmindful of Circumstances
1. I'm not talking about surface love, but about love that is of God.
a. Deep love
2. it is astonishing how little one feels poverty when he loves and is loved.
a. My home growing up.
b. Some women never satisfied.
3. It is not circumstances that cause a marriage to fail, but a lack of love.
4. Jesus left all when he left heaven and came to an old sin sick world. Because he loved.
a. Even on the cross he loved and forgave, Luke 23:34.
b. the circumstances of this earth and a sinful people did not alter his love.
II. Love is Unbreakable
1. You cannot break love, Romans 8:38-39
2. Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Romans 8:35
a. not the law, not do's and don'ts.
b. The love of Christ is unbreakable.
3. Love covers sin.
b. 1 Peter 4:8
4. what causes a woman to stay with a husband who treats her so cruel? Love
5. what causes little children to look with adorable eyes upon a mother who beats them, ties them to the bed, and leaves them without food? Love
6. what causes Christ to look into the backslider’s heart and gently urge them to back to him? Love
III. Love is the Motivation for Service
2. We could ask Paul. What makes you do it? What makes you go from place to place without funds? The love of Christ.
3. Sometimes your own family may not understand what love makes you do for Christ.
4. Do you serve him because you love him? Do you serve him because it is the thing to do?
IV. Love is the Basis of Christian Living
2. The reason some people always live right and do right is that they have fallen in love with Jesus.
3. How do you feel about what Jesus said for you to do with your life?
a. 1 John 5:2-3
b. John 14:15, 21-24
4. the love of Christ makes us live for him, not the law.
V. Love is Sacrifice
1. John 15:13
2. upon the battlefield through the pages of history, many have died for a friend or loved one.
3. But in Romans 5:6-8, Christ died for us while we were sinners. The enemies of God.
4. John 3:16
5. John 12:25, some love their own lives to such an extent that you are going to lose it.
6. God loves you. There's no greater pain or sorrow than when love is sinned against and defended, Hebrews 10:26-29
7. some of you say, “I am a Christian.” I love Jesus. Yet there is no sacrifice in your life.
a. You never serve him.
b. You never read his word.
c. You never pray.
d. You are unfaithful in attending services.
e. You give nothing of your life.
f. I say that you do not love him.
8. When I consider the love of God, I must love him. I must serve him. How about you?
