LOVE
– THE ACTION OF THE REDEEMED HEART
BREAD
4 Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is
not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record
of wrongs. 6 Love
does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
8 But
God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NIV)
19 We
love because he first loved us. 1 John
4:19 (NIV)
16 And so
we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love
lives in God, and God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we
will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like
him. 1 John 4:16-17 (NIV)
18 Dear
children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 (NIV)
36 “Teacher,
which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest
commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All
the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40 (NIV)
BUTTER
“No sea is deeper than the ocean of His
love. There is no army stronger than His
hosts, no force greater than His throne of grace, no enemy who can overcome His
direct and indirect work in our lives.” Robert J. Morgan
“He
who is filled with love is filled with God Himself.” Augustine
“Love seeks one thing only:
the good of the one loved.” Thomas
Merton
“The
gospel...should be seen as not only a message of good news for lost people to
be saved from sin's penalty, but also a message of good news for Christian
people to be saved from sin's domineering power. The goal of the gospel is not
merely to forgive us, but to change us into true worshippers of God and
authentic lovers of people.” Dr. Steve Childers
“Love
one another that it may at last be said of Christians as it was at first: ‘Behold how they love one another.’” Ralph
Venning
“Christian Love,
either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.” C. S.
Lewis
“Seek,
O believer, that every good thing you have may be an abiding thing. May your
character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! May
your faith be no ‘baseless fabric of a vision,’ but may it be built of material
able to endure that awful fire which shall consume the wood, hay, and stubble
of the hypocrite. May you be rooted and
grounded in love. May your convictions be deep, your love real, your desire
earnest. May your whole life be so firm
and strong, that all the blasts of hell and the storms of earth shall never be
able to remove you.” Charles Spurgeon
HEART
SAVOR
- · Biblical love is a fruit of the Spirit made possible in the life of the believer through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. It is not a fleshly love which primarily takes but a sacrificial love which seeks to give for the good of the beloved.
- · God so loved the world that He gave. Selfless love demonstrates Christ in me.
- · I must love not only in words but also in actions as love is made manifest in what I do.
