HOW TO LOVE AND HOW TO BE LOVED
Scripture: GALATIANS 5:19-23, LUKE 6:27-28, ROMANS 5:5
How to Love and How to Be Loved
Adrian Rogers
Galatians 5:19-23
Take your Bibles and turn to Galatians chapter 5, and in a moment I want to begin reading in verse 19. I want to talk to you about love, How to Love and How to Be Loved. Now, we have a generation today that talks an awful lot about love, but, very frankly, folks, we have a generation that knows perhaps less about love than any generation since the time of Christ. It is amazing how the word love has been twisted, perverted, and misused and abused today. People just don’t understand what love is. So many people think that love is an inexpressible emotion, sort of a outward inexpressibility of an inward all overishness. They just don’t even know what it is. They just, oceans of emotion, it’s just feeling. But I’ll tell you, friend, that’s not what love is. Love is not feeling. It may contain feeling. It may result in feeling. But love is not primarily a feeling nor an emotion. I’ll tell you why. The Bible commands us to love. And you cannot command a feeling. Think about it. The Bible commands us to love. Now, it may contain emotion. It frequently results in emotion. But the kind of love that I’m talking about is not an emotion. I’ll tell you something else. It is not an uncontrollable passion. People have the idea today that love is something that happens to us, and we’re more or less victims of it, or recipients of it, however we may think. We fall in love, and then we fall out of love, and it just sort of happens. And so we have a song written like that silly song that was written about a decade ago, when a man is singing to his wife, or wife singing to help husband, wanting a divorce, Please release me, let me go. I don’t love you anymore. Poor me. I just don’t love you anymore, and it’s not my fault. So to stay together would we don’t have any choice over w? But wait a minute. The Bible says, Husbands, love your wives. That’s not a suggestion, not a request. That is a command. Love, my dear f ...
Adrian Rogers
Galatians 5:19-23
Take your Bibles and turn to Galatians chapter 5, and in a moment I want to begin reading in verse 19. I want to talk to you about love, How to Love and How to Be Loved. Now, we have a generation today that talks an awful lot about love, but, very frankly, folks, we have a generation that knows perhaps less about love than any generation since the time of Christ. It is amazing how the word love has been twisted, perverted, and misused and abused today. People just don’t understand what love is. So many people think that love is an inexpressible emotion, sort of a outward inexpressibility of an inward all overishness. They just don’t even know what it is. They just, oceans of emotion, it’s just feeling. But I’ll tell you, friend, that’s not what love is. Love is not feeling. It may contain feeling. It may result in feeling. But love is not primarily a feeling nor an emotion. I’ll tell you why. The Bible commands us to love. And you cannot command a feeling. Think about it. The Bible commands us to love. Now, it may contain emotion. It frequently results in emotion. But the kind of love that I’m talking about is not an emotion. I’ll tell you something else. It is not an uncontrollable passion. People have the idea today that love is something that happens to us, and we’re more or less victims of it, or recipients of it, however we may think. We fall in love, and then we fall out of love, and it just sort of happens. And so we have a song written like that silly song that was written about a decade ago, when a man is singing to his wife, or wife singing to help husband, wanting a divorce, Please release me, let me go. I don’t love you anymore. Poor me. I just don’t love you anymore, and it’s not my fault. So to stay together would we don’t have any choice over w? But wait a minute. The Bible says, Husbands, love your wives. That’s not a suggestion, not a request. That is a command. Love, my dear f ...
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