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2008-09-28 – David Watson – Dating and Relationships: Part 1

// October 27th, 2008 // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

Dating and Relationships:? Part 1

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