What Is Love?

What Is Love?

I. Introduction

A. I Corinthians 13:4-13 (NLT) ⁴Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. ⁶It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. ⁸Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown language and special knowledge will all disappear. ⁹Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! ¹⁰But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear. ¹¹It’s like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. ¹²Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now. ¹³There are three things that will endure—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

B. If you just let your life “drift,” you will never “drift” into becoming a !

II. What Is Love?

A. Love is .

1. The skill of –

2. Proverbs 23:7a (NASB) For as he thinks within himself, so he is.

B. Love is .

1. I John 3:18 (NASB) Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

2. The skill of

C. Love is not .

1. James 3:16 (NASB) For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

2. The skill of

3. Romans 6:23 (NASB) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

D. Love does not and is not .

1. The skill of –

E. Love is not .

1. The skill of

F. Love is not –.

1. The skill of being –

2. Philippians 2:3-4 (NASB) ³Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; ⁴do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

G. Love is not easily .

1. The “ ” skill

H. Love keeps no record of .

1. The skill of “”

I. Love does not delight in and love rejoices with the .

1. The skill of “walking in the other person’s ”

J. Love always .

1. The skill of

K. Love always trusts, hopes, and perseveres.

1. Love !

2. The skill of

3. Revelation 3:20 (NASB) ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.’

III. Conclusion