150215 eng love is (part 2) by ps. timothy loh

Culturally – recap
• Love is feeling
• Emotion, high, cloud 9, in love …etc.

• Love is sex
• Channel News Asia
“Media surveys have
shown teenagers in
Thailand pick
Valentine's Day as
the perfect day to
lose their virginity”

• Love is sex
• Cambodian Valentine's survey raises concerns
over rape and sexual violence
“Survey finds 47.4% of
young men in capital
Phnom Penh willing to
force their partner into
having sex this Valentine's
Day (the guardian)”

• Love is self-gratification
• Self-centered. Whatever that makes me feel good.

Ephesians 5: 1-5
Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved
children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ
loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant
offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5: 1-5
Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved
children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ
loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant
offering and sacrifice to God.
How does love looks like? What is the way of love?

A Catholic woman
and her protestant
husband laid to rest
in Holland, 1888.

“I have to be strong for my siblings. I am their mother and
father. My stomach hurts often for the pain they feel. I
just do my best to create a world in this one room where
they can play and feel happy.” —Abdi, age 17

Kamara spend 12 hours a day caring for the almost
extinction black rhinos

A husband who
captured the wife
journey with cancer in
pictures

Lt. Colonel Robert L. Stirm is reunited with his family
after being taken prisoner during the Vietnam war.

Dr. Religa monitors his patient's vitals after a 23 hour
long heart transplant surgery. His assistant is sleeping
in the corner.

Clara Gantt is reunited with her husband's body after
more than 60 years. Sergeant Joseph Grantt went
missing during the Korean war.

China earthquake rescue workers found the most
incredible expression of love - a mum protecting her
child.

City of Corinth & church
• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.

• Externally

• Externally
• Popular for its commercial trades

• Externally
• Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

• Externally
• Internally

• Externally
• Internally
• Division, disunity

• Externally
• Internally
• Immorality

• Externally
• Internally
• Immorality
• Abuse of gifts

• Externally
• Internally
• Immorality
• Abuse of gifts
• Self-centeredness

• Externally
• Internally
• Immorality
• Abuse of gifts
• Self-centeredness
• Pride ….etc.

Conclusion: LOVE was the missing ingredient

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT
1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is
not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

8 things What love IS NOT
1.Envy / jealous

1.Envy / jealous
2.Parading itself / boastful

1.Envy / jealous
3.Puffed up / proud

1.Envy / jealous
3.Puffed up / proud
4.Behaving rudely / dishonor others

1.Envy / jealous
3.Puffed up / proud
5.Seeking its own

1.Envy / jealous
3.Puffed up / proud
5.Seeking its own
6.Provoking / easily angered

1.Envy / jealous
3.Puffed up / proud
5.Seeking its own
6.Provoking / easily angered
7.Thinking of evil / keeps no record of wrong

•Envy / jealous
•Parading itself / boastful
•Puffed up / proud
•Behaving rudely / dishonor others
•Seeking its own
•Provoking / easily angered
•Thinking of evil / keeps no record of wrong
•Rejoicing in sin / delight in evil

1 John 4: 7-10
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes
from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God
and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know
God, because God is love.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. This is love: not
that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son
as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Psalm 36:7
O Lord, how precious is your love. My God, the children
of the earth find refuge in the shelter of your wings.

Psalm 40:11
Your merciful love and your truth will always guard me.

Psalm 13:5
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in
your salvation.

Psalm 18:18-19
The Lord came to my support. He set me free in the open,
and rescued me, because He loves me.

Psalm 63:3
Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.

Romans 8:35, 37-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?....No, in all these things we
are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For
I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else is all
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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