Message
on love, suitable for Valentine’s Day.
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REAL LOVE
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“What is love, as defined by the
online world?
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Resisting a YouTube video of the
1993 hit song, the first click plunges you into a world of pink carnation-
tainted tackiness. The website’s designer no doubt spends all afternoon baking
cookies, sending chain emails and sighing at the "Home Sweet Home"
sign on the living room wall.
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Then I get a jolting, computer-
generated version of Lionel Richie’s Endless Love that offends the ears.
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Up next is a serious message: great
philosophers could not touch love’s true essence. Which is why, obviously, this
website quotes four to eight-year-olds.
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Gems include: "Love is when you
tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday"; and "Love
is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken". (Finding love online
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The Press | Tuesday, 10 February
2009)
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Yesterday we celebrated Valentine’s
Day, a time to reflect on love and what love truly is. Let me tell you, you
will never understand what love is, what true love is, until you understand
love’s source. You may have warm fuzzies, you may have sweaty palms, you may
care about another person, you may be committed, or need to be, but you will
never understand true love until you know love’s source.
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I. LOVE’S SOURCE
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- 1 John 4:7-21
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First I want you to understand that
love comes from God. God is the true source of all love.
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It is amazing the work we put into
love and relationships hoping things will work out, when so many people never
realize that God is the source of all love.
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> 1 John 4:7-8 Dear friends, let
us love one another; because love is from God, … God is love.
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It saddens me when I think of number
of people who try to build loving relationships and loving homes and loving
marriages that leave God out of the equation.
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> Psalm 127:1 Unless the Lord
builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain;
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God is love’s source.
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When we think of love however, we
think not only of its source, but we also must remember how it is demonstrated.
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II. LOVE DEMONSTRATED
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- 1 John 4:9-10
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If yesterday is like Valentines of
the past, over $1 billion was spent on chocolate, $1 Billion on cards, and 218
million roses were sold in the pursuit of, or in an attempt to demonstrate love.
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The Bible tells us that God sent the
first Valentine. He showed what true love is. He demonstrated His love for you
and me over 2000 years ago when He sent His One and Only Son to pay the price
for your sins and mine.
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Listen, God didn’t just love you enough
to tell you about it. He didn’t just love you enough that He settled for having
it written in the clouds by angels in flaming chariots. He didn’t love you
enough that He stopped at sending you a love note, or a card, or calling you,
He loved you enough that He sent His Son Jesus Christ.
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You see, when it came to
demonstrating love, FTD was not fragrant enough, chocolate was not sweet
enough, and Hallmark couldn’t find the words to set you free.
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The Bible says,
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