All love originates with God. You must first experience true love to be able to give true love. A Valentine's Day sermon. http://edthepastor.podbean.com/e/all-we-need-is-love-1-john-47-21/?token=0870c759cc85ff9f8dde8fe29b02a601

2. 1 John 4:7–21
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love
comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever
does not love does not know God, because
God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love
among us: He sent his one and only Son into
the world that we might live through him. 10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he
loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins.

3. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we
also ought to love one another. 12 No one
has ever seen God; but if we love one
another, God lives in us and his love is
made complete in us. 13 This is how we
know that we live in him and he in us: He
has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have
seen and testify that the Father has sent
his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If
anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the
Son of God,

4. God lives in them and they in God. 16 And
so we know and rely on the love God has
for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love
lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is
how love is made complete among us so
that we will have confidence on the day
of judgment: In this world we are like
Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But
perfect love drives out fear, because fear
has to do with punishment. The one who
fears is not made perfect in love.

5. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If
we say we love God yet hate a brother or
sister, we are liars. For if we do not love a
fellow believer, whom we have seen, we
cannot love God, whom we have not
seen. 21 And he has given us this
command: Those who love God must
also love one another.

7. All We Need Is Love
Ricki-Lee Coulter
All we need is love
All we need is love
Wanna shout it from the rooftops,
All we need is love!
I feel the love under the stars, on the rooftop tonight
Here we come together as one, can act by a beating heart
All around the world,
I'm coming now to you
A revolution of love,
Here we go, go, goooo!
All we need is love
All we need is love
Wanna shout it from the rooftops,
All we need is love!
Follow the lights all of the way,
On the freeway of love
We got it all if we got each other
And everything will be alright!
All around the world,
I'm coming now to you
A revolution of love
Here we go, go, gooo
All we need is love
All we need is love
Wanna shout it from the rooftops
All we need is love!
We're on a one way ticket to paradise
I'll kick…
What is love?

8. 1 a (1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal
ties 〈
(2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness
(3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common
interests 2 : warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion
3 b (1) : a beloved person : darling — often used as a term of
endearment
4 a : unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another:
as
(1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind
(2) : brotherly concern for others
b : a person’s adoration of God
5 : God or personification of love
6 : an amorous episode : love affair
What is love?

9. All we need is LOVE
Our love for God is proven by our love for
one another
Love is from God
Love proves we know and are born of Him

10. All Love Originates from God
Agape
Brotherly
Friendship
Familiar
Friendship
Romantic
Sexual

11. Song of Solomon 2:3–17 (ESV)
3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great
delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. 4 He brought me to the banqueting
house, and his banner over me was love. 5 Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am
sick with love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! 7 I adjure you, O
daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases. 8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding
over the hills. 9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice. 10 My beloved speaks and says to me:
“Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, 11 for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over
and gone. 12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the
turtledove is heard in our land. 13 The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give
forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. 14 O my dove, in the clefts of the
rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely. 15 Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our
vineyards are in blossom.” 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies. 17 Until
the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft
mountains.
Romantic and Sexual?

12. Song of Solomon 4:1–5:1 (ESV)
1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 2 Your teeth are like a flock of
shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them
has lost its young. 3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like
halves of a pomegranate behind your veil. 4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of
stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. 5 Your two breasts are like two
fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies. 6 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I
will go away to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense. 7 You are altogether beautiful, my
love; there is no flaw in you. 8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon.
Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from
the mountains of leopards. 9 You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated
my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. 10 How beautiful is your
love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils
than any spice! 11 Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the
fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. 12 A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
a spring locked, a fountain sealed. 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest
fruits, henna with nard, 14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices— 15 a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing
streams from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let
its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits. 1 I came to my garden,
my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank
my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!

13. Agape
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not
brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does
not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a
wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if
there are gifts…they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be
done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but
when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I
was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child,
reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with
childish things…But now faith, hope, love, abide these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4–13

14. Love is…
By this the love of God was
manifested in us, that God
has sent His only begotten
Son into the world so that
we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we
loved God, but that He
loved us and sent His Son
to be the propitiation for
our sins.
1 John 4:9–10
Demonstratable
Costly
Didn’t require our initiation
Causes change
CANDY

15. That’s a tall order
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to
love one another…if we love one another, God
abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:11–12b

16. Want to be able to give love?
We have seen and testify that the Father has
sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of
God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:14–15

17. Practice makes perfect
We have come to know and have believed the
love which God has for us. God is love, and the
one who abides in love abides in God, and God
abides in him. By this, love is perfected with
us…
1 John 4:16–17
Know
Believe
Perfect
Abide

18. Who Initiates?
We love, because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19
Become the initiator
Speak love
Practice love
Do love
Express Love

19. Wrote it
down
Now I ask you, lady, not as
though I were writing to
you a new commandment,
but the one which we have
had from the beginning,
that we love one another.
And this is love, that we
walk according to His
commandments.
2 John 5–6a
1 Thessalonians 4:9 (NASB95)
9 Now as to the love of the brethren,
you have no need for anyone to write
to you, for you yourselves are taught
by God to love one another;

20. WRITE A LOVE LETTER

21. Wedding March

22. Who gives this woman to be wed?
Dear family and friends, on behalf of The
brides and the grooms I welcome all of you for
this marriage celebration. We are here today
to encourage, celebrate and support the
covenant these two people who beloved to us
and to God, now make and to share in the joy
that They are feeling as they reaffirm their
pledge love and commitment to each other.
We rejoice and celebrate in the ways life has
led them to each other and got them to the
place where they now stand.

23. (To the groom), the woman who stands by
your side is your wife. She will look to you for
comfort, for support, for love, for
understanding, for encouragement, and for
protection. You must never take her for
granted, and always stand by her.
Repeat Today in presence of God and family
and friends, I reaffirm my vowels to you. My
life with yours. Wherever you go, I will go.
Whatever you face, I will face. In good times or
bad, in sickness or in health, for richer or
poorer, I take you as my wife.

24. (To the bride), the man who stands by your
side is your husband. He will look to you for
comfort, for support, for love, for
understanding, for encouragement, and for
protection. You must never take him for
granted, and always stand by him.
Bride: : Today in presence of God and family
and friends, Today in presence of God and
family and friends, I reaffirm my vowels to
you. Wherever you go, I will go. Whatever you
face, I will face. In good times or bad, in
sickness or in health, for richer or poorer, I take

25. Marriage Vows
(To the Groom) Please join your right hands
and declare your consent. Do you take this
woman to be your lawful wedded wife to have
and to hold from this day forward, so long as
you both shall live? I do
Minister: (To the Bride) Do you take (Groom's
Name) to be your lawful wedded husband to
have and to hold from this day forward, so
long as you both shall live? I do

26. Communion
Closing
You have given your promises to each other, and
have declared your everlasting love by the taking
of communion in the presence of God and these
witnesses. I do by the power vested in me as a
minister of the Gospel and in accordance with the
authority given to me by the state Texas, I now
pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss
your bride.