Loveology: This thing called love


We live in a world that is fluent with using the word “love”, but is anemic in the practice of it.


Anemic: (lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness; listless; weak)


TO KNOW JESUS IS TO LOVE HIM. TO LOVE JESUS IS TO OBEY HIM.


HOW CAN YOU TRULY KNOW WHAT LOVE IS?

YOU HAVE TO START AT THE FOUNDATION OF LOVE

Dear friends, let us love each other, because love comes from God. Those who love are God’s children and they know God. Those who do not love do not know God because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8 NLT

YOU HAVE TO BUILD YOUR LOVE FROM THE GIFT YOU’VE RECEIVED

God has shown His love to us by sending His only Son into the world. God did this so we might have life through Christ. This is love! It is not that we loved God but that He loved us. For God sent His Son to pay for our sins with His own blood. Dear friends, if God loved us that much, then we should love each other. 1 John 4:9-11 NLT


This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10 NIV


In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10 ESV

AS YOU LOVE YOU LIVE OUT GOD TO OTHERS

No person has ever seen God at any time. If we love each other, God lives in us. His love is made perfect in us. 1 John 4:12 NLT