Love isn't...

John Farley
Pastor-Teacher
Sunday,
January 13, 2019

 

Love isn’t…

COL 3:12-14

HOW do we put on love?

#1: Serve one another: bear one another’s burdens.

#2: Perform good works.
 
#3: Foster unity in the body.

#4: Adopt love’s qualities.
 
#5: Put other people’s needs ahead of your own.

#6: Never take your own revenge. Be at peace with others.

#7: Edify one another by speaking the truth & singing.

#4: Adopt love’s qualities.

1CO 13:4-8

Our job description includes putting on the qualities of love.

Love is as much about the things we DON’T do as it is about the things that we ARE doing.

Love is:

• Patient
• Kind

 

Love does these things:

• Rejoices with the truth
• Bears all things
• Believes all things
• Hopes all things
• Endures all things

 

Love does not:

• Brag
• Act unbecomingly
• Seek its own
• Take into account a wrong suffered
• Rejoice in unrighteousness

 

Love is not:

• Jealous
• Arrogant
• Easily Provoked

 

It’s a matter of substituting the one for the other.

 

The way to stop rejoicing in unrighteousness is to start rejoicing in the truth.

GAL 5:16

 
#5: Put other people’s needs ahead of your own.

ROM 12:10-11

The cure for selfishness is to put other people’s needs before your own.

ROM 12:15

PHI 2:3-4

Love is sacrificial.

 

#6: Never take your own revenge. Be at peace with others.

ROM 12:17-21

You overcome evil with good.

EPH 4:19
1TH 5:15

 

#7: Edify one another by speaking the truth & singing Biblical songs.

EPH 4:11-16
EPH 4:25
EPH 5:17-21

COL 3:16

Biblical songs are based on Bible truths,
rich in Scriptural content, praise and glorify God, and minister to the saints.

All songs teach something.