Love, God's Love

Exactly the Title, exactly what I've been trying to tell people for so long, and yet didn't have these exact words to do it! But this is perfect.


Barry Bennett-Discipleship Evangelism Level 2 Lesson

The God kind of love

1 John 4:8 “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
He that “agape” not, God’s kind of love, Loves not, does not know God.
John 3:16 “For God so “Agape’d” the world, that He gave…” You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. The greatest action of love is giving. And forgiving is the greatest expression of love.
Agape, God’s kind of love, does not condemn. Agape love cannot be held in, Jesus demonstrated the love of God in all He did.
John 15:13 “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down His life for His friends.”
Religion comes from not knowing God’s love or that God is love, think of every religion on the earth, every single one of them is trying to make their “god” happy because he is not currently very happy.
But to understand God’s love for us, is not a religion, it is a deep relationship with the same one that created us.
Phileo=“Hollywood” Love. You can fall into and out of this love, and is generally mixed with Eros love.
Eros=Emotional Physical love. It will go so far for someone, will sacrifice a little bit for someone, but it can only go so far.
Storge=Natural bond or affection in a family relationship. The perfect representation of how feeble human love is.
But none of those are Agape love! God’s love is above all of those, it is unconditional. Quit trying to related on this human level of love like most churches do, not about being nicer, or changing behavior, but having revelation on God’s love!
Romans 5:5 “Now hope does not disappoint, because the agape love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
We have been equipped to live in this love, but the sad thing is when we still just live in this natural human love. But we Can live in that love, forget the emotions, it is not about that, they aren’t bad, but simply not needed to love.
1 Corinthians 13:1- “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not the agape love of God, (yes you can move in the gifts of the spirit and not be in love) I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not God’s agape love, it profits me nothing. (You can be a giver without loving, but you cannot love without giving.) (You can do things that are good without loving, you can do good things without God, but without God, without His love, they mean nothing.) Love suffers long and is kind; (how long would human love suffer for someone?) love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

See?

-Ben Heath