Love

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Love Defined?
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Loves Learnings

• Without love, any good we do will be worthless.
• Love will never fail, but our love will sometimes
  fail.
• With love, every good we do (no matter how small)
  will be valued forever.

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Worthless Deeds

• 1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
  but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or
  a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of
  prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all
  knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move
  mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I
  give all I possess to the poor and surrender my
  body to the flames, but have not love, I gain
  nothing. NIV

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Loves Necessity

• Because everything God does flows from His love.
• Because true love is selfless.
• Because love is focused on the other persons
  welfare.

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Failing Love

• 4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous
  or boastful or proud 5or rude. Love does not
  demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it
  keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6It
  is never glad about injustice but rejoices
  whenever the truth wins out. 7Love never gives
  up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and
  endures through every circumstance. NLT

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Steps to loving responses

• Admit right up front that we are OFTEN unloving
  in our thoughts, words, and actions.
• Think ahead
• Who will I see today?
• What tasks am I likely to have?
• Plan ahead
• If he does this again.
• If she says that again.

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Steps to loving responses

• Renew your mind
• With the Word of God
• With prayer
• WWJD
• Forgive ahead
• Dont wait for an apology that may never come.
• 7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is
  always hopeful, and endures through every
  circumstance.

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Love lasts forever

• 13So these three things continue forever faith,
  hope, and love. And the greatest of these is
  love. New Century Version

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You did it to me!

• 33The Son of Man will put the sheep on his right
  and the goats on his left.34Then the King will
  say to the people on his right, Come, my Father
  has given you his blessing. Receive the kingdom
  God has prepared for you since the world was
  made.

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You did it to me!

• 35I was hungry, and you gave me food. I was
  thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I
  was alone and away from home, and you invited me
  into your house. 36I was without clothes, and you
  gave me something to wear. I was sick, and you
  cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited
  me.

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