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\n(1 Corinthians 14:1 LB)\xa0 \u201cMake love your greatest aim\u2026\u201d
(Matthew 22:36-39)\xa0 \u201cTeacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?\xa0 Jesus replied: \u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u2019\xa0 This is the first and greatest commandment.\xa0 And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 \u201d
(1 John 4:7-8, 21)\xa0 \u201cLet us love one another, for love comes from God... Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love... And He has given us this command:\xa0 Whoever loves God must also love his brother.\u201d
(Galatians 5:6)\u201c\u2026The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.\u201d
(Ephesians 4:2) \u201cBe completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.\u201d
(Ephesians 4:3) \u201cMake every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.\u201d
(1 Corinthians 14:1 LB)\xa0 \u201cMake love your greatest aim\u2026\u201d
(Proverbs 4:23)\xa0 \u201cAbove all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.\u201d
Three things give us HEART disease:\xa0
1. Self-centeredness.
(Philippians 2:3)\xa0 \u201cDo nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.\u201d
2. Bitterness.
Grinch Video\xa0 Heart is 2 sizes to small\u2026"this time I\u2019ll keep it off."\xa0
(Hebrews 12:15)\xa0 \u201cSee to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.\u201d
(Ephesians 4:31-32)\xa0 \u201cGet rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.\u201d
3.\xa0\xa0\xa0 Lust.
(Mark 7:21)\xa0 \u201cFor from within, out of men\u2019s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.\xa0 All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean.\u201d
What is love?\xa0
Answer: Agape = Unconditional love
(John 15:13)\xa0 \u201cGreater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.\u201d
(John 13:34-35)\xa0 Jesus said, \u201cA new commandment I give you:\xa0 Love one another!\xa0 As I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u201d
Love is living for the other person\u2019s good.
How do we love?\xa0
1.\xa0\xa0\xa0 In action and in truth.
(1 John 3:18)\xa0 \u201cDear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.\u201d
2.\xa0\xa0\xa0 By choice.
(Colossians 3:14)\xa0 \u201cAnd over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.\u201d
(Ephesians 3:17-18 LB)\xa0 \u201cI pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart, living within you as you trust Him.\xa0 May your roots go deep into the soil of God\u2019s marvelous love, and may you be able to feel and understand\u2026how long, wide, deep, and high His love really is, and experience this love for yourselves\u2026\u201d
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