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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