40 DAYS OF LOVE (week two) LOVE MATTERS MOST.

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40 DAYS OF LOVE (week two) LOVE MATTERS MOST

and love for other people? LOVE MATTERS MOST Are you satisfied with your love for God and love for other people?

1. Love is a choice and a commitment. 3. We love because God loves us. LOVE MATTERS MOST Review The meaning of love 1. Love is a choice and a commitment. 2. Love is an action not just an emotion. 3. We love because God loves us. 4. Love is a habit. Our goal for 40 Days of Love is for us to become more loving.

LOVE MATTERS MOST If you don’t want to waste your life you have to focus it. God put you here on earth to learn what is important: 1. To learn to love God 2. To learn to love other people

Life is about relationships Q. What is involved in relationships? LOVE MATTERS MOST Life is not about; How much I know - knowledge How much I get - acquirement How much I do - activity How much I earn - success Life is about relationships Q. What is involved in relationships?

LOVE MATTERS MOST Mark 12:30-31 Jesus said the most important commandments is, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind and all your strength. And love your neighbor as yourself. There are no commands more important than these.” God put you on earth for 60, 70, 100 years so you can learn how to love.

2. The best expression of love is time. LOVE MATTERS MOST “Three Laws of Love” 1. The best way to live your life is to love. 2. The best expression of love is time. 3. The best time to love is now.

LOVE MATTERS MOST 1. The best way to live your life is to love. a. Love validates my identity. (I am of Christ) Love proves that you are a member of God’s family.

LOVE MATTERS MOST 1. The best way to live your life is to love. a. Love validates my identity. (I am of Christ) 1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

LOVE MATTERS MOST 1. The best way to live your life is to love. a. Love validates my identity. (I am of Christ) 1 John 4:20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

LOVE MATTERS MOST 1. The best way to live your life is to love. b. Love covers my sin and the sin of others. 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. It means once I’ve been forgiven, God gives me the power to forgive others.

1. The best way to live your life is to love. LOVE MATTERS MOST 1. The best way to live your life is to love. c. Love remains forever. 1 Cor. 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. It’s the only thing in your life that is going to last. Everything else you do is temporary.

LOVE MATTERS MOST 1 Cor. 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. [2] If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [3] If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Life is about relationships LOVE MATTERS MOST Life is not about; How much I know - knowledge How much I get - acquirement How much I do - activity How much I earn - success Life is about relationships Our goal is to learn that today. Not when you die.

LOVE MATTERS MOST When we die maybe God will ask us these questions; Did you learn to love Me with all your heart? Did you learn to love everybody else? Tell me about your relationships.

LOVE MATTERS MOST 2. The best expression of love is time. Love = T-I-M-E 1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. Love in action - quality time you spend with people

2. The best expression of love is time. LOVE MATTERS MOST 2. The best expression of love is time. Chuck Swindoll - “Busyness destroys relationships. It feeds the ego but it starves those who love us. It fills the calendar but it fractures the family.” Richard Swenson - “I’ve come to believe that all of our relationships are damaged by hurry.

2. The best expression of love is time. LOVE MATTERS MOST 2. The best expression of love is time. How do you make time for the people who love you? Suggestion: turn off the TV and the computer. Average person sits in front of the television or video screen or computer working or playing, 6 hours a day.

2. The best expression of love is time. LOVE MATTERS MOST 2. The best expression of love is time. 42 hours a week = 2,184 hours in 1 year in front of a screen. The issue: People watch somebody else’s family instead of the reality of their own family.

3. The best time to love is now. LOVE MATTERS MOST 3. The best time to love is now. Ephes. 5:15-18 Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, [16] making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. [17] Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Make the most of every opportunity because; LOVE MATTERS MOST Make the most of every opportunity because; Kids grow up (empty nest) Circumstances change People die Do it now because people are starving for attention.

LOVE MATTERS MOST Question: Who do you need to show love to today? Who do you need to go and share a word of encouragement and love? Will you visit somebody at home or at the hospital? Who is it at your work that everybody can’t stand but needs massive dose of love?

Life is about relationships LOVE MATTERS MOST Life is not about; How much I know - knowledge How much I get - acquirement How much I do - activity How much I earn - success Life is about relationships Our goal is to learn that today. Not when you die.

Application Part of 40 Days of Love involves: Listening to Sunday Messages Review your notes Talk about it in your small groups

Our homework for this week. LOVE MATTERS MOST Our homework for this week. Take five minutes, ten, fifteen minutes every day to talk to each of your family members.

2. The best expression of love is time. LOVE MATTERS MOST “Three laws of love” 1. The best way to live your life is to love. 2. The best expression of love is time. 3. The best time to love is now.