What Love Is (2 of 4)
Series: All You Need Is Love
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 13:4-7
OPEN: Amazon.com is a site on the internet that sells thousands of books (more than you can find in any bookstore). One of the advantages of this site is that you can look up books by “topic”. So, someone did just that. They searched for certain topics and were intrigued by what they found. For example, they sought how many books were on Amazon that dealt with
• Heaven, and they found 2,652 book titles
• Money had 10,304 listings
• There were 16,765 for “Sex,”
• 18,818 for “God,”
• BUT there were 30,066 for “Love.”
ILLUS: One preacher said he looked up the definition of love in his Compton’s encyclopedia, and he found that there was not one single article on love. It only referred him to emotions and sex. So, he looked up the word "emotion" in his encyclopedia and - in the entire three-page article, love was only mentioned in one sentence.
Then he looked up the word "sex." And under the subject of sex, he found 12 different articles. AND in those 12 different articles, he found the word "love" in only one paragraph.
After having done this research, he thought to himself: “That is so true, Americans know a whole lot more about sex than they do about love. The so-called love songs on the radio are not love songs. They are lust songs.” (Jim Mooney)
(PAUSE…)
Now, I don’t know if that’s ABSOLUTELY true but I do know that a lot of people are confused about what love is really all about. Even back in the church at Corinth there were people who were confused about it.
The Corinthian congregation was filled with people who had become Christians because they had responded to the idea that God actually loved them and sent His only begotten Son.
As the Apostle John wrote:
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1John 4:10
So these Christians at Corinth knew what love was - because ...
Series: All You Need Is Love
Jeff Strite
I Corinthians 13:4-7
OPEN: Amazon.com is a site on the internet that sells thousands of books (more than you can find in any bookstore). One of the advantages of this site is that you can look up books by “topic”. So, someone did just that. They searched for certain topics and were intrigued by what they found. For example, they sought how many books were on Amazon that dealt with
• Heaven, and they found 2,652 book titles
• Money had 10,304 listings
• There were 16,765 for “Sex,”
• 18,818 for “God,”
• BUT there were 30,066 for “Love.”
ILLUS: One preacher said he looked up the definition of love in his Compton’s encyclopedia, and he found that there was not one single article on love. It only referred him to emotions and sex. So, he looked up the word "emotion" in his encyclopedia and - in the entire three-page article, love was only mentioned in one sentence.
Then he looked up the word "sex." And under the subject of sex, he found 12 different articles. AND in those 12 different articles, he found the word "love" in only one paragraph.
After having done this research, he thought to himself: “That is so true, Americans know a whole lot more about sex than they do about love. The so-called love songs on the radio are not love songs. They are lust songs.” (Jim Mooney)
(PAUSE…)
Now, I don’t know if that’s ABSOLUTELY true but I do know that a lot of people are confused about what love is really all about. Even back in the church at Corinth there were people who were confused about it.
The Corinthian congregation was filled with people who had become Christians because they had responded to the idea that God actually loved them and sent His only begotten Son.
As the Apostle John wrote:
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1John 4:10
So these Christians at Corinth knew what love was - because ...
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