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By David Watson
Benchley, September 28, 2008
- Genesis 29:16-35 - Jacob’s love for Rachel and lack of love for Leah
- True love: I Corinthians 13
- agape - “love for the sake of its object”
- Love for God and neighbor. Matthew 22:37-39
- God’s love for us. Romans 5:8
- Infatuation
- The difference between true love and infatuation Amnon had for Tamar. II Samuel 13:1-15
- Paul’s recommendations for marriage. I Corinthians 7:7-9
- Warnings about purity. I Corinthians 5:15; I Timothy 5:2
- Love’s double-cross
- Initially attractive traits become an annoyance.
- Look to the future! Proverbs 4:25-27
- Selfishness
- True love is not about what you can get out of it.
- Paul’s selflessness. II Corinthians 12:15
- Love: I Corinthians 13
- Positive
- Patient
- Kind
- Rejoices with the truth
- Bears/endures all things
- Believes/hopes all things
- Never fails
- Negative
- Is not jealous
- Does not brag/not arrogant (Proverbs 28:30-31)
- Does not act unsbecomingly
- Does not seek its own
- Is not provoked
- Does not take into account a wrong suffered.
- Does not rejoice in unrighteousness
- Positive