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Show PRQPERLOVE 2 Corinthians 11:' 2 . From the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation, we have in The Bible sixty-six books of love. This Book of books is the supreme story of the unwavering ,love of God for His people. Because it is a book about love, this text in 2 Corinthians makes sense. Listen to Apostle Paul wrote: "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." There is both jealousy and chastity. He talks about the stress and stain of love known as jealousy as well as the glorious end of love, a chaste virgin presented to the Master. This word "chastity" suggests cleanness, what the blamelessness, pureness, unadulterated, without mixture, no faults, immaculate, free from defilement, holy, uprightness, without moral defect, tested by the sunlight and judged clean, 1 and above board. The person who is chaste walk proudly with h· s or her head up high can James says, no one can find any wrinkles. The relationship of God to knowing that as spots or His children is liken to that of a There is rests on a man to his wife. brings out jealousy and thought today would be a union that love. So I good day to reminds us that PROPER LOVE is the foundation of our faith. The text starts with a Godly jealousy, a suspicion that the enemy will try to step in, a desire to keep any other one from getting to zealous or competing successfully. Back in Exodus 20,. we are reminded that God is a jealous God and therefor we are not to have any other gods before Him. I wondered what it really meant to say God came and walked in the garden in the cool of the evening with Adam and Eve and missed them when they tried to hid what it meant to say Enoch walk so close with God that God took him or what it meant to or have Noah building an ark and 2 preaching after finding grace in the eyes of God as he walked with God. (Genesis 3: 8-10; 5: 24; 6: 8-9) All of them were sinners but when they made the right choices to honor God, God recognized that they loved him with all their hearts, souls and minds. When Jesus Came and the lawyer want to know what the greatest commandment was, Jesus answered, Love the Lord they god with all your heart, soul, and mind. And the second like unto it, Love your neighbor as yourself.(Matthew 22: shared what he called 34-40) a new Later on (John as 13: I have loved you have love 34) Jesus commandment and said, what you really ought to do is love another was ye one you." three types of love mentioned in the New Testament. First, there is the love There based on are attraction and fascination. It is best by the appeal of the opposite sex. It does not last much longer than when---when the beauty is gone, when the smile become a frown, when the money gets funny. The second type of known 3 love rests on emotions and relationship. You blood in your veins, you name is the same, you are family. The third type of love is agape. It involves all that we are-our have the same emotions, our love is love in even mind, when the It is love in soul, our spite wills. This of. One goes on loving you love causes you to hurt. spite one our of. It covers a multitude of faults. It makes the difference in life. God wants us another and to agape let us love one another: for love to agape one "Beloved, is of God; and every Him. one that loveth is born of (1 7) The Bible says "For God so loved (agaped) the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life." (John 3: 16) God God. And knoweth God." John 4: gave His Son and His Son gave His life that you and I might experience that love that gives us life more abundantly. Jacob loved Rachel work 7 plus so 7 years and it 4 willing to seemed like just a few that he was days. (Gen 29: 20) that she would go, die and be buried with her. Ruth loved Naomi stay, be, and (Ruth even so 1: 16-1 7) "Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus, Because He first loved me!" 5 |
