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The Great Command:Love

The Three Types of Love No word is more misunderstood in our society than the word love...One word isn't enough agape, the kind of love Christ taught and showed (Sacrificial love). 2. eros (sexual desire). 3. philia (friendship).

Eros Eros is the love of 'lovers'. Male-Female attraction desire. Eros was the Greek god of love-sensual, sexual, impulsive. Feelings and attraction. Not used in NT.

Philia Greeks used as love for friend. Brotherly love (Philadelphia). Phila- 'love of', delphia-brother Philosophy, Philanthropy Used in NT not as much as Agape.

Agape Most common word for love in NT Christian Love/Heroic Love Given as a virtue in Baptism (Love/Charity)with Faith and Hope... "He is so full, in fact, that it overflows, and He can't help but love us." C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves Characteristics: - sacrificial -unselfish -unconditional -unchanging -active -antidote to fear

Agape is Sacrificial Jn 3:16"For God so loved(Agape) the world that he gave his one and only Son..., "Greater love(Agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.“ Jn 15:13 “In agape you give yourself away, not just your time or work or possessions or even your body. You put yourself in your own hands and hand it over to another. And when you do this unthinkable thing, another unthinkable thing happens: you find yourself in losing yourself.” Peter Kreeft

Agape is Unselfish Example: Washing disciples feet : service. Problem for Atheistic Materialism (Kolbe) Our happiness comes to us only when we do not seek for it. It comes to us when we seek others' happiness instead.

The Great Commandment:Agape On one occasion Jesus was asked: "Master, which is the great commandment of the law?" (Matt. 22:36). He answered: "... Thou shalt love(Agape) the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love(Agape) thy neighbour as thyself.” Summation of 10 commandments –1-3 Agape of God –4-10 Agape of Neighbor

God is Love(Agape) Scripture never says God is justice or beauty or righteousness, though he is just and beautiful and righteous. But "God is love" (1 Jn 4:8). Love is God's essence, his whole being. Everything in him is love(Agape) The crucifixion was God's great act of love.

Love and The Trinity If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover a beloved a relationship between them. If God were only one person, he could be a lover, but not love itself. The Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father, and the Spirit is the love proceeding from both, from all eternity.

Love vs. Kindness Don't confuse it with kindness (tolerance) which is only one of its usual attributes. Kindness is the desire to relieve another's suffering. Love is the willing of another's good. Tough love: A father can spank his child out of love. And God is a father.