Embracing the Eternal Power of Love
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Love God. Love people. I threw in a personal quote here of mine. I just made it up. I don't plan on making money. But if you want to throw donations down towards the youth, you can do that. The more we grow in our love to Jesus, the easier it becomes to love others like Jesus." [56:30]
2. "When all fades away, when nothing of this life remains, God will still be there. His love will still be there. And for us believers, we trust by faith that we will spend eternity with God engulfed in. So the reality brings us back to a sharp focus of the call and the command of Christ to love God and to love people. That is what matters. That is what will last above everything else." [59:23]
3. "We must discover the power of love. The power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that, we will be able to make this old world a new world. We'll be able to make men better. Love is the only way. So I ask you this morning, how has the power of love impacted your life? Where have you seen your redemption, your forgiveness, your compassion? How do you love others?" [01:00:18]
4. "God is love. I love that. If that doesn't rejuvenate your hunger and your passion to not only to love him more, to love him stronger, but to do the same thing to those around you, to spread that love. Because, friends, it doesn't do much good if you walk up and say, I'm a Christian, and you self-proclaim that, but they look at you and they, I don't know. You look like you're a Christian. We're not perfect. But I think sometimes we fall to that as an excuse." [01:03:10]
5. "If you haven't ever heard that God loves you, which I think most of you have, but let me just say and echo, God loves you, and he's calling us to love the way he loves. They might look different. They might act weird. They might look weird. They might talk weird. They might talk educated and smarter than you. They might talk educated. might talk dumber than you it doesn't matter the class it doesn't matter what their characteristics are it doesn't even matter what the personality is god came to seek and to save all who are lost we don't get the option of choosing who we want to to speak the message of christ to amen" [01:05:27]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Her actions had changed her feelings. Motion resulted in emotion. The ability to love is established not so much by fervent promise as often repeated deeds. See, the thing about this story is that their love for each other, didn't just all of a sudden reappear in that moment. They didn't go from hate, real hate, to love. Love was always there. Because love is unfailing. Love never dies. Love was always there, but they couldn't see it over the hate. They couldn't see it over the cluttered mind. They couldn't see it beyond their own emotion. But when she was challenged to do all the things that she wanted to get vengeful for, then it became real." [55:49]
2. "We realize that there's only a few important things in life. We begin to see more clearly that the things like our profession and our possessions are truly not as important as the people around us. This clarity seems to be a bit of what Paul is describing in 1 Corinthians 13 this morning. When he compares what he sees now to seeing our reflection in a mirror, which at the time that he was writing this, would have been a very dim and imperfect image." [57:33]
3. "What we see and understand now is in dim reflection of divine reality. It's a gross understatement to say that there's still so much we just don't know. And with that said, we can know what God has revealed to us through his word, which brings us back to 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 13 again. There we go. All right. What does it say? Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become what? But love will what? Are you starting to see the recipe here?" [58:31]
4. "He's saying, look in the mirror. And see yourself, and love yourself the way that I see you and the way that I love you. Because when he made you, he made you perfectly in his image. But so often, we look in the mirror. What do we see? We see our deficiencies. We see our flesh. We see all of our defects, right? I looked in the mirror when I was a little kid growing up. And I looked in the mirror, and I didn't like the size of my lips. No, I don't care. You don't like them? Don't look at them. They kind of consume my face, so it's hard to not see them. But I couldn't look in the mirror because I couldn't see past my lips, literally." [46:17]
5. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud. It's not rude. It doesn't demand its own way. It's not irritable. Oh, okay. I'm just going to keep going. It keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice, but it rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up. Love never loses faith. It's always hopeful, endures throughout every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. Everybody say useless. But love will last forever." [49:18]
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1. "Love God. Love people. I threw in a personal quote here of mine. I just made it up. I don't plan on making money. But if you want to throw donations down towards the youth, you can do that. The more we grow in our love to Jesus, the easier it becomes to love others like Jesus." [56:30]
2. "When all fades away, when nothing of this life remains, God will still be there. His love will still be there. And for us believers, we trust by faith that we will spend eternity with God engulfed in. So the reality brings us back to a sharp focus of the call and the command of Christ to love God and to love people. That is what matters. That is what will last above everything else." [59:23]
3. "We must discover the power of love. The power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that, we will be able to make this old world a new world. We'll be able to make men better. Love is the only way. So I ask you this morning, how has the power of love impacted your life? Where have you seen your redemption, your forgiveness, your compassion? How do you love others?" [01:00:18]
4. "God is love. I love that. If that doesn't rejuvenate your hunger and your passion to not only to love him more, to love him stronger, but to do the same thing to those around you, to spread that love. Because, friends, it doesn't do much good if you walk up and say, I'm a Christian, and you self-proclaim that, but they look at you and they, I don't know. You look like you're a Christian. We're not perfect. But I think sometimes we fall to that as an excuse." [01:03:10]
5. "If you haven't ever heard that God loves you, which I think most of you have, but let me just say and echo, God loves you, and he's calling us to love the way he loves. They might look different. They might act weird. They might look weird. They might talk weird. They might talk educated and smarter than you. They might talk educated. might talk dumber than you it doesn't matter the class it doesn't matter what their characteristics are it doesn't even matter what the personality is god came to seek and to save all who are lost we don't get the option of choosing who we want to to speak the message of christ to amen" [01:05:27]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Her actions had changed her feelings. Motion resulted in emotion. The ability to love is established not so much by fervent promise as often repeated deeds. See, the thing about this story is that their love for each other, didn't just all of a sudden reappear in that moment. They didn't go from hate, real hate, to love. Love was always there. Because love is unfailing. Love never dies. Love was always there, but they couldn't see it over the hate. They couldn't see it over the cluttered mind. They couldn't see it beyond their own emotion. But when she was challenged to do all the things that she wanted to get vengeful for, then it became real." [55:49]
2. "We realize that there's only a few important things in life. We begin to see more clearly that the things like our profession and our possessions are truly not as important as the people around us. This clarity seems to be a bit of what Paul is describing in 1 Corinthians 13 this morning. When he compares what he sees now to seeing our reflection in a mirror, which at the time that he was writing this, would have been a very dim and imperfect image." [57:33]
3. "What we see and understand now is in dim reflection of divine reality. It's a gross understatement to say that there's still so much we just don't know. And with that said, we can know what God has revealed to us through his word, which brings us back to 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 13 again. There we go. All right. What does it say? Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become what? But love will what? Are you starting to see the recipe here?" [58:31]
4. "He's saying, look in the mirror. And see yourself, and love yourself the way that I see you and the way that I love you. Because when he made you, he made you perfectly in his image. But so often, we look in the mirror. What do we see? We see our deficiencies. We see our flesh. We see all of our defects, right? I looked in the mirror when I was a little kid growing up. And I looked in the mirror, and I didn't like the size of my lips. No, I don't care. You don't like them? Don't look at them. They kind of consume my face, so it's hard to not see them. But I couldn't look in the mirror because I couldn't see past my lips, literally." [46:17]
5. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud. It's not rude. It doesn't demand its own way. It's not irritable. Oh, okay. I'm just going to keep going. It keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice, but it rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up. Love never loses faith. It's always hopeful, endures throughout every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. Everybody say useless. But love will last forever." [49:18]
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