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The True Meaning of Love
philadelphia: brotherly love
eros: the kind of love between a man and a woman
agape: unconditional love; the kind of love God gives.
Jesus says in John 15:12-13: “This is my commandment, That ye love one another,
as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.”
What comes to mind on St. Valentine’s day? Love, hearts and kisses? The greatest
love story ever told is found in the Bible. How Jesus left his glorious kingdom
and came to earth as a poor and humble servant.
Philippians 2:5-8 says, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with
God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant,
and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
God compares our relationship with Him to a relationship between a man and his
wife. He is coming back for a bride that is without spot or wrinkle (Eph. 5:27).
He also exhorts us to walk in love. In fact, the greatest commandment is “Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.” (Matthew 22:37) He then
added to love your neighbor as yourself. In John 13:35 it says that the world
will know that we are Christians by the love that we have toward one another.
So how do we walk in this love? I John 16-18 says, “Hereby perceive we the love
of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives
for the brethren. But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love
of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth.”
We learn love by spending time with our Heavenly Father. The more we spend time
with Him, the more we become like Him. The more we spend time with Him, the more
we will understand how he wants us to walk.
I John 4:7-10 says, “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward
us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might
live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
Love is one of the fruit of the Spirit. Love is not an emotion or a mushy
feeling. Love is action. God not only wants us to walk in love, but He wants to
be love. We could put the word “I” for the word “love” in I Cor. 13. The only
way we can walk in this kind of love is to be in Jesus.
am patient and kind;
do not envy;
do not parade myself and
am not puffed up.
do not behave rudely,
do not seek my own
am not provoked,
think no evil;
do not rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoice in the truth;
bear all things, believe all things, hope all things,
endure all things.
never fail.
We can never fail as we walk in that kind of love. It is the unconditional,
unselfish love of God. As we abide in Him and let His Word abide in us, our joy
will be full.
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye
are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much
fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast
forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the
fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask
whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father
glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples. Even as the
Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. If ye keep my
commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s
commandments, and abide in his love.”
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