LESSON 5 “Love”
SECTION 1:
Luke 10:25-37
| The Definition of Love What is Love? Read Mark 12:30-31 and 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is from God, for God is love: 1 John 4:8 God’s love is eternal, unconditional, selfless, unchanging and righteous. Love as God intended it is the highest and purest form of love, which surpasses mere human affection. The Bible uses three Greek words to describe the English word for “love.” “Phileo” is the love between friends or brothers; “eros” is the passionate, romantic love which is to be shared by a husband and wife; and “agape” is the highest form of love “Agape” love was best exemplified by the Father’s love for the world when He sent His Son to die, and in turn, the Son’s love for the Father in that He gave Himself for all men. Love is an eternal force that transforms your life. --- Disciples Handbook Vol 1, New Song Christian Fellowship [1] |
1 John 4:7-11
John 15:12-14
Galatians 5:13-14 1
1 John 4:8
John 5:19
1 John 4:7-11
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 MESSAGE
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3–7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8–10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
The Message Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 MESSAGE [2]
2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3–7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8–10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
The Message Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 MESSAGE [2]
Divine love in the Greek language refers to a love that wholly sacrifices itself for the object of its love, realizing the precious value of it. For example, man and woman betrayed God and fell into deep sin resulting in an abominable life, which ultimately led to eternal destruction. In spite of this betrayal, God lovingly sacrificed Himself on Calvary to save mankind. Why? Because each individual soul is priceless to Him. This is divine love! "Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals." ~ E.M. Bounds [4]
[4] www.christianquotes.org, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author, 1835-1913
"Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty, come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'" ~ Charles H. Spurgeon [5]
[5]www.christianquotes.org, Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist Pastor, 1834 - 1992
"To love is to be vulnerable." ~ C.S. Lewis [6]
[6]www.christianquotes.org, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist, 1898-1963
Appendix / Bibliography
Publisher: NavPress (February 1, 2014)
ASIN: B00IV3836G
[3] The Holy Spirit My Senior Partner, David Yonggi Cho, Charisma House, Lake Mary, FL 1989, p.12 [4]
www.christianquotes.org, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author, 1835-1913
[5]www.christianquotes.org, Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist Pastor, 1834 - 1992
[6]www.christianquotes.org, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist, 1898-1963
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