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Consider these two scenarios.

A man's older car begins having serious trouble.

So he takes it into the mechanic they run assessments on it and the news is it's it's basically going to cost a lot more to fix it than it's worth.

And so the man decides I'm not going to put good money after bad and what does he do?

The limited money that I have them going to put toward a new car, we can relate to that cuz we had to do that with a van couple months ago and that makes sense, right?

That sounds reasonable.

We did it.

That's that's a reasonable thing to do.

Is it it you agree.

Now consider this other scenario, just in the area.

Always wear another man, an engineer accidentally catches his arm and pan and crushes.

It in a piece of machinery and he rushes to the hospital, he has an x-ray and a sassy and there's multiple fractures and breaks and it's going to require some surgery and they repair an inexpensive rehab and even though he doesn't we rather not spend the money, reluctantly he.

He gives years of his life savings and everything that he has to pay for the surgery.

He's in order to get that hand doctor and repaired and rehabilitated, even though it will take months, but that still makes sense, doesn't it?

Because, I mean, that the hand is, is valuable to you.

In our culture today relationships, especially the marriage relationship are often viewed, like the first scenario.

Well, when things aren't working for you anymore, they get old and think things aren't just just, you know, running.

Well what do you do?

You cash in the old one and then you get a new one?

And that's exactly the way people view marriage today.

In our throwaway Society again, and mixed it with a car or piece of equipment, because we realize that's just the way the equipment is, it gets old, it's going to stay all you, you break it breaks, you get new stuff.

But marriage is like the second scenario and our relationship to another its members of one.

Another God says, we're more part of one another and therefore just like you wouldn't say well it was a good hand.

It did serve this day but I'll just cut it off and do it that you realize.

No, you don't.

You don't treat a member of your body.

That way God says that were to have that mentality to because it is, it's, it's Priceless to us, right?

Ephesians 5 28 through 30 says, this husband also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies, he who loves his own, wife loves himself for no one ever hated his own flesh.

But what But nourishes it ain't rehabilitated takes care of it.

Men's him and cherish is it just as Christ also does the church because we are parts of his body were members of his his body until because Tuesday is Valentine's Day and love is something that we never grow out of and never get to the point where we say.

Yeah, we love perfectly all the time and every situation, I find it's a great, great reminder to understand love, love is something that's been more, perverted and twisted, and misunderstood in our culture, then probably anything else.

Love is been defined as accepting an approving of any wicked evil thing.

And any say, it is almost like an evil thing now is defended because it's an active.

Love.

And if you don't support it, then what are you?

On loving.

So we need to understand love and Valentine's Day.

It's always an interesting time to talk about that.

And so I wanted to give a little bit of history behind Valentine's Day.

Saint Valentine was a courageous Roman Christian who championed marriage Valentine was a priest of the third Century Ag.

And like us, he lives at a time when the institution of marriage was under attack during the rule of Emperor, Claudius the second, the Roman military was involved in a number of bloody and unpopular campaigns Claudius was having a difficult time recruiting soldiers and he believed the reason was that the Roman men did not want to leave their lovers or families behind So that's reasonable not unreasonably.

He theorize that unmarried soldiers would fight better than Mary soldiers because they had no reason to worry about what might happen to their wives and children.

If they were killed in battle.

So he issued an edict hard to believe but he issued an edict prohibiting any further marriages or engagements in rum.

Just like that, marriage became illegal.

It's happened before just like in our country just like that.

All of a sudden marriage has been redefined into being, you know, 22 men or women can do it.

We can get married.

And wait, once you go down that road, what basis do you have for discriminating against anything else?

Why not three women?

Why not polygamy?

That's a little biased.

Why do you think you're better?

Why do you think marriage is Between Two? Lovers is better than three or four?

That's a little prejudiced, isn't it?

So, we've opened up a can of worms in redefining marriage because again, it will say that God is the one who is a Creator and designer and Define her.

And we like to try to play God Is So, you know what, God, we're going to do it our way, but we realize that we have no Authority, a right to do that and when you when you try to change it, you ruin it.

You don't, you don't bring God.

Yes.

And Design.

So just like that marriage became legal Valentine and his associate another priest named Marius.

Just obey the king's eating just like the midwives and Sarah's day did and Daniel's free sends three friends had to disobey Nebuchadnezzar.

They, they disobeyed.

And they came to the aid of young, couple by performing secret marriages in.

Defiance of the emperor has decreed Nor was that all in many cases, their actions had the effect of leading young Romans to Christ is balance Valentine and Marius consistently.

Encourage them to marry within the walls of the church.

Her safety.

Another reason as a result Valentine was found out, he was apprehended and dragged before the prefect of Rome who's summarily, condemned him to death for performing marriages, but illegally because the state hasn't sanctioned it and they condemned him to death, he was imprisoned and not condemned to death.

He was tortured and beheaded You know what day he was beheaded?

14th of February.

That's why we have February 14th, this Valentine's Day and it was about the year 270 that's the origin of our Modern Day celebration at the Valentine.

So just kind of an interesting background, isn't, it?

Always learning different things.

Not uplifting, but courageous.

So just realized our founding fathers understood that our rights, don't come from government because it went government can decide to do that.

And if governments becomes God, like, in the Soviet Union, they can Outlaw got this activist government wants to become God.

The first thing they always try to do is displaced God because they don't want competition between who gets to Define things and whose authority.

Do we have to realize our our rights come from God, they're unalienable rights because we're creating image of God, not because government gives mankind certain rights if Government gives them government can take them away and redefined different rice.

So, we need to understand that love is from God.

It's its source is from God, loving is is an essential part of God's nature.

His Essence, just being, it's who he is, and what he does.

And so God is the source of love.

And also, the example of love, we want to know what love is.

We need to know God and what is he like?

And how does he love?

Because he's the source, he is the one that that's a Nollie invented it, but it is part of another, with this is part of his essential nature.

God is love and love is from God.

When we raided 1st, John, 4:7, if you'd like to turn your Bibles with me, we'll be in this passage for a little bit and then we're going to go over to 1st Corinthians 13.

So 1st John 4, you already know seven and eight.

You have that memory.

I bet you can't quote it without singing.

The tune though.

1st John 4 7 through 11 year, but it starts off this way to his beloved.

Let us love one.

Another why

Because love is from God, love is of God and living love is from God. God is the source.

Love originates from God. Mankind, did not invent love.

We didn't come up with the term, we didn't create the experience, or the idea or the emotions of feeling.

It's not originating from us.

God is the one who is love.