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Putting a Face on Love

What it is…

LOVE ‘HAS NO NAME’?

Love

Is Not Sex

Gives

Will Emote

Truth based

Will Commit

Is from God

If I…know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2

Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Song of Songs 8:6

LOVE ‘HAS NO NAME’?

Love

Is not SEX

GIVES

Commits

Is from God

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16

What is Commitment? NOT 50 Best Friends

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What is Commitment? NOT 50 Best Friends NOT “Feeling Close”

Magical Data

What is Commitment? NOT 50 Best Friends NOT “Feeling Close” IS: “Keep…promises…”

Jonathon: Loyal to David Loyal to Saul

And may the Lord make us keep our promises to each other… 1 Samuel 20:23



1. Commit The heart of love

For love is as strong as death, its [zeal] as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned. Song of Songs 8:6-7



1. Commit The heart of love The heart of God

“I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. Jeremiah 31:3



1. Commit The heart of love The heart of God “In the Lord…”

We love, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19



1. Commit The heart of love The heart of God “In the Lord…” Realistic

Able to reciprocate

Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself. 1 Samuel 18:1



1. Commit The heart of love The heart of God “In the Lord…” Realistic VOCALLYThen Jonathan made a covenant

with David because he loved him as himself. 1 Samuel 18:3



1. Commit2. Invest

Regular TimeVulnerable: “Lean on me…”

“…Your love to me was more wonderful Than the love of women.” 2 Sam. 1:26



1. Commit2. Invest3. Promote

Means forgiveness

Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses. Proverbs 10:12



1. Commit2. Invest3. Promote

Means forgiveness “YOUR needs…”

Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life. 1 Samuel 20:17



Commit

InvestPromote

Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Song of Songs 8:6



Faith• Commit

Hope• Invest

Love• Promote

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

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