All You Need Is Love

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Love is probably the most misunderstood word in
the english language.
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2 Popular Misconceptions About Love
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2 Popular Misconceptions About Love

• Love is a feeling.

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Love is a feeling you feel when you feel youre
going to get a feeling youve never felt before.
2 Popular Misconceptions About Love
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2 Popular Misconceptions About Love

• Love is uncontrollable.

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What Does the Bible Say About Love?
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What Does the Bible Say About Love?

• Love is a choice

Over all these virtues put on love which binds
them all together in perfect unity (Col. 314)
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What Does the Bible Say About Love?

• Love is an action

Our love should not just be words and talk it
must be true love, which shows itself in action.
1 John 318
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Love is a demonstration, not just an inclination.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Understand and personally experience Gods love.

May you be able to feel and understand, as all
Gods children should, how long, how wide, how
deep, and how high his love really is and to
experience this love for yourselves (Eph. 318
LB)
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Unloved people have a hard time giving and
  receiving love.

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance
• People

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance
• People
• Pity

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance
• People
• Pity
• Position

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance
• People
• Pity
• Position
• Physical affection

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance
• People
• Pity
• Position
• Physical affection
• Pleasure

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance
• People
• Pity
• Position
• Physical affection
• Pleasure
• Possessions

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Substitutes Imitations to Love
• Performance
• People
• Pity
• Position
• Physical affection
• Pleasure
• Possessions
• Problems

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• We love each other as a result of his loving us
  first.
• 1 John 419

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

When you boil it all down, selfishness is really
about power control.
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1 Corinthians 134-7
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Love lesson 1 When the situation calls for it,
serve others in love by giving up my rights.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not
jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Love lesson 2 Serve others in love by seeking
Gods best for others.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Love does not demand its own way. Love is not
irritable
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Dont be selfish dont live to make a good
impression on others. Be humble, thinking of
others as better than yourself. Dont think only
about your own affairs, but be interested in
others, too, and what they are doing.
Philippians 2 3-4 (NLT)
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Love involves a commitment to look out for the
best interest of others.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Love lesson 3 Serve others in love by forgiving
those who hurt me.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Love keeps no record of when it has been
wronged. It is never glad about injustice but
rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never
gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?

• Stomp out selfishness

Forgive whatever grievances you may have against
one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 313 (NLT)
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
Selective Memory
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
Selective Memory

• Catalog times when people disappointed us,
  treated us unfairly and let us down.

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
Selective Memory

• Catalog times when people disappointed us,
  treated us unfairly and let us down. Stomp out
  selfishness
• We forget our debt to God.

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
The key is forgiveness.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
We need to quit recording in our book and begin
erasing.
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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
We need to quit recording in our book and begin
erasing.

• How? Close the door on the past by forgiving
  those who have hurt us.

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How Can We Develop a More Loving Lifestyle?
We need to quit recording in our book and begin
erasing.

• How? Close the door on the past by forgiving
  those who have hurt us.
• Instead of rehearsing that hurt over and over,
  release it through forgiveness.

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