Love -tf

Genesis 27:1-4 (First time "love" used) Isaac's "love" focuses on his belly.

25:27-32 like father, like son

John 6:26 "Ye seek me . . . because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled." [This is an evil.]

Philippians 3:18-19 ". . . they are the enemies...of Christ...whose God is their belly. . . ."

Romans 16:17-18 ". . . they . . . serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. . . ."

Genesis 29:20 (Second time "love" used) Jacob's love is for a woman: Rachel not Leah. (eyesight)

Genesis 29:32 (Third time "love" used) Leah thinks having Jacob's baby will make him love her.

Proverbs 7 (She's confusing "sex" with "love.")

1st Kings 11:1-8 "But King Solomon loved many strange women. . . ." --Yea, right!

Proverbs 7:16-18 ". . . let us take our fill of love until the morning. . . ." --Yea, right

1st Samuel 18:20 "And Michal Saul's daughter loved David." [This has got to be "True love!"]

2nd Samuel 6:16,20-23 ". . . and she despised him in her heart." [All the love, went out of her.]

2nd Timothy 2:22 "Flee also youthful lusts. . . ." (The Lord doesn't confuse "lust" with "love.")

Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members . . . fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection. . . ."

Exodus 20:1-6 (Fourth time "love" used) "And God spake . . ." (associating "love" and "commandments.")

(Also in Deuteronomy 5:10 / 7:9 / 10:12-13 / 11:1 / 30:16 / Joshua 22:5 / Daniel 9:4)

John 14:15,21 "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (Said 14 different times in six books)

15:10 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. . . ."

1st John 5:2-3 "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. . . ."

2nd John 6 "And this is love, that we walk after his commandments."

Psalm 119:126-127 "Therefore I love thy commandments above gold. . . ."

v. 131 "I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments." (That's love!)

Song of Solomon 8:7 "Many waters cannot quench love . . . if a man would give all the substance of his house. . . ."

THE LOVE OF GOD

Romans 5:5-8 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

1st John 3:16 "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us. . . ."

1st Timothy 1:12-14 "And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus."

3:1 "Behold, what manner of love...that we should be called the sons of God. . . ."

Jude 21 "Keep yourselves in the love of God." (A warning to Baptists --Remember "Once saved, always saved"?)

John 15:9 "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love."

(Philippians 2:12 ". . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.")

Romans 8:35-39 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

2nd Thessalonians 3:3-5 "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and in the patient waiting for Christ."

?8:17 "I love them that love me. . . ." (Is that strange?)

LOVING GOD

Matthew 22:35-40 getting the priorities straight

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart. . . ."

Luke 11:42 "But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye...pass over judgment and the love of God. . . ."

John 5:42-44 "But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you."

8:42,44,47 "If God were your Father, ye would love me. . . . He that is of God heareth God's words. . . ."

Romans 8:28 "all things work together for good to them that love God. . . ."

1st Corinthians 2:9 "Eye hath not seen...the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

Colossians 4:8 ". . . a crown of righteousness . . . unto all them also that love his appearing."

James 1:12 ". . . the crown of life . . . to them that love him."

1st Peter 1:3-8 ". . . Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love. . . ."

1st Corinthians 8:3 "But if any man love God, the same is known of him."

John 14:23-24 ". . . if a man love me, he will keep my words. . . ." (a warning to the Charismatics)

1st John 2:3-5 "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. . . ."

Psalm 119:140 "Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it."

Psalm 31:23 "O love the Lord, all ye his saints. . . ."

Hebrews 12:3 "For consider him that endured . . . lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds."

Ephesians 3:17-19 ". . . that ye, being rooted and grounded in love . . . to know the love of Christ. . . ."

Matthew 6:24 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love the other. . . ." (The Lord and "Mary")

Proverbs 8:36 ". . . all they that hate me love death." (A warning to Catholics!)

LOVE & HATE

Romans 9:13 ". . . Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." (It never occurs to people that the Lord does both.)

Ecclesiastes 9:1 ". . . no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them." (It's a spiritual thing.)

Ecclesiastes 3:8 "A time to love, and a time to hate. . . ."

Psalm 97:10 "Ye that love the Lord, hate evil."

Amos 5:15 "Hate the evil, and love the good. . . ."

Micah 3:1-3 those who get it backwards God likens unto Cannibals!

Psalm 119:163 "I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love." (example)

(2nd Thessalonians 2:10 ". . . they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.")

Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." (Satan / the Lord)

Proverbs 17:9 "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love. . . ." (The Lord does this!)

(Psalm 32:1 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.")

Proverbs 15:17 "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

LOVING OUR ENEMIES

Matthew 5:43-46 "For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the Publicans the same?"

Luke 6:32 "For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them."

LOVING OUR NEIGHBOR

Leviticus 19:17,18 ". . . thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor. . . thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. . . ."

Proverbs 27:5 "Open rebuke is better than secret love."

(Revelation 3:19 "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. . . .")

(Hebrews 12:5-11 "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. . . .")

Romans 13:8-10 "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."

(Incidentally, it didn’t say love "replaces" the law, rather, ". . . love is the fulfilling of the law." It makes it complete.)

CHEAP LOVE

Ezekiel 33:30-32 ". . . they hear thy words, but they will not do them; for with their mouth they shew much love. . . ."

Matthew 24:12 ". . . the love of many shall wax cold. . . ." (one of the signs of the times)

Proverbs 17:17 "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother [in the flesh] is born for adversity."

LOVE IN MARRIAGE

Titus 2:1-5 "That they may teach the young women to . . . love their husbands, to love their children. . . ."

Colossians 3:19 "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."

Ephesians 5:25-33 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it. . . ."

THINGS NOT TO LOVE (A summary)

1. evil Amos 5:15 "Hate the evil, and love the good. . . ."

2. violence Psalm 11:5 ". . . the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth."

3. lying Psalm 119:163 "I hate and abhor lying. . . ."

4. money 1st Tim. 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil. . . ."

5. the world 1st John 2:15-16 "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world."

6. strife Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirreth up strifes. . . ."

7. transgression Proverbs 17:9 "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love. . . ."

8. a reward Isaiah 5:23 "Which justify the wicked for reward. . . ."

9. praise of men John 12:43 ". . . For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God."

10. cursing Psalm 109:17 "As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him. . . ."

11. sleep Proverbs 20:13 "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. . . ."

12. pleasure Proverbs 21:17 "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. . . ."

13. wine & oil Proverbs 21:17 ". . . he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."

14. gifts Isaiah 1:23 ". . . every one loveth gifts. . . ."

15. your life Matthew 16:25 "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. . . ."