1. What Do You Love?

2. Are we loving the wrong things?
The Subject of Love
Important to every Christian
2 Pet. 1:7
Matt. 22:34-40
1 John 4:18-19
Is our service a drudgery?
Are we loving the wrong things?

3. Colossians 3:13 What are we doing to overcome darkness?
Misdirected Love
Loving darkness
John 3:19,20 (Agape)
The message of Jesus rejected
Is today any different? 1 John 5:19, Lk. 9:62
Colossians 3:13 What are we doing to overcome darkness?

4. James 4:4 How close are we to the world?
Misdirected Love
The World
1 John 2:15-17 (Agape)
We live in a lustful world 2 Timothy 3:4 – perilous times
James 4:4 How close are we to the world?

5. 1 Tim. 6:6 Are we content with what we have?
Misdirected Love
Money
1 Tim. 6:9-10 (Philaguria)
The pursuit of things are all around us
Is this closer than it should be? Heb. 13:5, Lk. 12:15
1 Tim. 6:6 Are we content with what we have?

6. Phil. 2:3-5 Do we think of our brethren and others as we ought to?
Misdirected Love
Praise of men
John 12:42-43 (Agape)
Far too many crave acceptance at the cost of truth. 3 John 9 (fond of being first)
Phil. 2:3-5 Do we think of our brethren and others as we ought to?

7. Matt. 6:33 Is God really first in our lives? Matt. 16:24, Rom. 12:1-2
Misdirected Love
Toward self
2 Tim. 3:2 (Filautos)
At the foundation of our sinful world – SELFISHNESS! Driven by Ego!
Matt. 6:33 Is God really first in our lives? Matt. 16:24, Rom. 12:1-2

8. Properly directed Love
Is toward God
Matt. 22:37, 1 John 4:19, 5:3 (agape)

9. Properly directed Love
Is toward His word
Psalm 119:119, 97 Psalm 1:1-2

10. Properly directed Love
Is toward truth
2 Thess. 2:10-12
What is truth? John 17:17 An acknowledgment that God’s word is ABSOLUTE truth!

11. Properly directed Love
Is toward our neighbors
Matt. 22:39
What is truth? John 17:17 Our neighbor is whoever we can help (Lk. 10:29-37)

12. Properly directed Love
Is toward our companions
Eph. 5:25 - husbands
Titus 2:4 – Wives
1 Pet. 3:7

13. Properly directed Love
Is toward our brethren
1 Pet. 2:17 – love the brotherhood
1 John 3:14, 4:20-21, John 13:34-35

14. Properly directed Love
Is toward our enemies
Matt. 5:43-47 – love them, bless them, pray for them, do good for them

15. Properly directed Love
Described: 1 Cor. 13:1-8 “…Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;…”

16. Properly directed Love
1 Cor. 13:1-8 – “…does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails.”

17. Which path will you choose?