Love Never Fails
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Introduction:
Introduction:
Valentine's Day is coming
Have you been showing to love lately?
Can the world see that you have Love?
WHEN a woman is pregnant, over time, it’s going to show.
Early on, it may not be clear to others.
There will be things happening inside of her—changes hormonally, changes with regard to taste, and changes with regard to various habits.
But if the changes are happening inside, they’re going to show up after awhile outside of her too.
Many of God’s so-called children aren’t pregnant with His love, because the changes aren’t showing.
ONE of the things the IRS does is allow deductions for charitable giving. Uncle Sam gives folks a break on what they owe him when they show that they have supported a 501 (c) (3) organization.
People get credit for supporting an organization that is set up to serve other people.
The IRS gives credit to people based on what they have done to help someone else.
Teaching Entitled :
LOVE NEVER FAILS
LOVE NEVER FAILS
Summary:
Summary:
The kind of love that God loves us with is what the Bible refers to as unconditional love.
The kind of love that God loves us with is what the Bible refers to as unconditional love.
LOVE NEVER FAILS
LOVE NEVER FAILS
Text: First Corinthians 13:1-13
If there is any one word in the English language that we have distorted, it is the word love.
We often say that we love fried chicken, chocolate cake, scrambled eggs and sausage and so on.
We even say that we love this movie, this TV show, that car, this brand of shoes or clothing and we could go on and on. You get the idea.
We have often used the word love to describe our feelings about our favorite things.
The real meaning of love is about our strong feelings about others with whom we have a relationship.
We use the word love to describe how we feel about God. Throughout the Bible, we see how God exemplifies His love for us. God’s love for us is beyond our comprehension.
Although we might fail from time to time, God never stops loving us.
The kind of love that God loves us with is what the Bible refers to as unconditional love.
The Greek word for this kind of love is agape. The Greek language has three other words for love.
Eros - Romance
When I think about the ideal of unconditional love, I tend to think about how these two words are a contradiction.
We call this kind of contradiction a oxymoron.
The name of a crucial battle in our country’s history is a oxymoron---Civil War. We all know that there is nothing at all civil about war.
No one can argue and say that God does not love us unconditionally. There are times when our attempts to be loving in an unconditional way are limited. That is why we are always in need of Gods help to be loving as God is loving.
When we forget about God¡¦s unconditional love for us, our love begins to become love that has strings attached. Without godly love, we are nothing .
A young man wrote his sweetheart a love letter: Dear Jennifer, I love you so much I’d climb the highest mountain just to see your smile.
I’d swim the deepest river, infested with piranhas, just for one of your kisses.
I’d cross the widest sea for one of your hugs.
I’d cross the burning desert just to look upon your face.
With never ending love, Frank,
P.S.: I’ll be over to see you next Wednesday, if it doesn’t rain.
Are you a fair-weather lover? Our whole purpose is to be agents of love; not James Bond type agents of love, but agents whose lives and behavior are ruled by Christlike love.
I. GOD’S LOVE FOR US IS UNCONDITIONAL
I. GOD’S LOVE FOR US IS UNCONDITIONAL
God’s unconditional love is not based on our performance.
God loves the prodigal sons just as He loves the elder brothers.
I once read about a young lady whose parents changed the way that they related to their daughter when she became pregnant out of wedlock.
Unfortunately, the change was not for the better. Their love became conditional.
That teenage girl needed her parents when she got pregnant more than ever.
Yet, they were ashamed of her. In some ways they disowned her.
Even some of the members of her church family responded to her differently. God’s love remained unchanged. God’s was heart-broken with her. Unlike her parents God’s unconditional love did not have limits.
God loves us in spite of our mistakes. When we make mistakes, God does not cease to love us.
The parable of the prodigal son reveals how great God’s love is for us.
II. OUR LOVE FOR OTHERS SHOULD BE
UNCONDITIONAL
II. OUR LOVE FOR OTHERS SHOULD BE
UNCONDITIONAL
God wants us to love others the same way that He loves us. God wants us to love others unconditionally. Someone has said that "God’s ability to love is released in our availability".
God wants us to be walking illustrations of His unconditional love. That is the kind of love that makes change possible.
God wants us to love others without setting limits for our love. There are times when people set limits as to how loving they will be by keeping score of the wrongs.
God wants us to us to be better and not bitter. When our love is conditional and keeps score of the wrongs it will make us bitter.
It makes us bitter because it makes us a slave to our inability to be forgiving. .
Unconditional love is rooted in the fact that we forgive others because God has forgiven and forgives us.
III. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE DOES NOT FAIL BECAUSE
IT GOES THE DISTANCE
III. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE DOES NOT FAIL BECAUSE
IT GOES THE DISTANCE
The character of God’s love is not only unconditional, but also persuasive.
I once read a story about a mother whose love went the distance for her child.
The mother in this story went to help out during harvest time.
She took her child with her. She was following the custom of harvest time in Scotland, where the women would help.
She placed her child in reach. But, as everyone got busy, an eagle came by and snatched the baby in order to make that baby a meal for her eaglets.
The eagle took the baby all the way back to its nest. Many of the men made a valiant effort to climb the vertical wall of rock.
There was a sailor who then succeeded to ascend to the top of the cliff but to no avail.
Finally, the mother, herself began that same endeavor against impossible odds.
But, she succeeded in getting to the top of that cliff. She got her child while the eagle was trying to beat her back.
But, the eagle’s efforts were not as strong as the mother’s desire.
When everything else failed, it was her love that found a way to rescue her child.
The crowd stared in awe as she came back down almost as easily as she went up. And they began to cheer and to rejoice with her.
That is how God’s love is with us. God’s unconditional love will go the distance to save those who are lost.
"Love ones, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love"
(1 John 4:7 Jesus said "A new command I give you; love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples" (John 13:35). Without godly love, we are nothing. AMEN.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Salvation:
Salvation:
The Word of God says in:
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
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Lord I believe that Jesus is the son of God, and that He died On the cross for my sins and His resurrection from the dead gives me eternal life. I ask forgiveness of my sins, and I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Amen.
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