2. No cookie cutter…no outline
“Love is love…”
No cookie cutter…no outline
“Love has no labels…”
Love is blind…

3. No cookie cutter…no outline
Philippians 1:9
“Love is love…”
No cookie cutter…no outline
Abounding Love
“Love has no labels…”
Love is blind…

4. Philippians 1:9-11
“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more in knowledge and all discernment; so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God”

5. Philippians 1:9-11
“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more in knowledge and all discernment; so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God”

6. Abounding Love… Phil.1:9-11
In knowledge (epiginosko)…Not abstract
But directed toward a particular object – (v. 11, Col. 1:9-10)

7. Abounding Love… Phil.1:9-11
In knowledge (epiginosko)…Not abstract
But directed toward a particular object – (v. 11, Col. 1:9-10)
But definite understanding (cf. Rom. 1:32)

8. Abounding Love… Phil.1:9-11
In knowledge (epiginosko)…Not abstract
But directed toward a particular object – (v. 11, Col. 1:9-10)
But definite understanding (cf. Rom. 1:32)
But participating in… (I Tim. 4:3, Col. 1:6)

9. Abounding Love… Phil.1:9-11
In Knowledge
In all discernment (aesthesis)
“perception not only by the senses but by the intellect” (Heb. 5:14)

10. Abounding Love… Phil.1:9-11
In knowledge
In all discernment (aesthesis)
“perception not only by the senses but by the intellect” (Heb. 5:14)
“a moral discernment in ethical matters”

11. Abounding Love… Phil.1:9-11
In knowledge
In all discernment
Effect: “that ye may approve the things that are excellent” (v.10).
the things that differ (cf. Rom. 1:28, Rom. 2:18, Matt. 10:31)

12. Love has no “gender”
Love has no “race”
Love has no “disability”
Love has no “religion”

13. Knowledge directed toward God…
God condemns homosexual sex (Lev. 18:22, Rom. 1:21, 24, 26-27)

14. Knowledge directed toward God…
God condemns homosexual sex (Lev. 18:22, Rom. 1:21, 24, 26-27)
God established marriage between a male and a female for all time (Gen. 2:24, Matt. 19:4-5)

15. Knowledge directed toward God…
God condemns homosexual sex (Lev. 18:22, Rom. 1:21, 24, 26-27)
God established marriage between a male and a female for all time (Gen. 2:24, Matt. 19:4-5)
God made of one every nation of men (Acts 17:26)

16. Knowledge directed toward God…
God condemns homosexual sex (Lev. 18:22, Rom. 1:21, 24, 26-27)
God established marriage between a male and a female for all time (Gen. 2:24, Matt. 19:4-5)
God made of one every nation of men (Acts 17:26)
God instructs us in pure and undefiled religion (Jms. 1:27)

17. Knowledge directed toward God…
God condemns homosexual sex (Lev. 18:22, Rom. 1:21, 24, 26-27)
God established marriage between a male and a female for all time (Gen. 2:24, Matt. 19:4-5)
God made of one every nation of men (Acts 17:26)
God instructs us in pure and undefiled religion (Jms. 1:27)
God wants us to be light and salt of the earth (Matt. 5:13-16)

18. Our loving appeal to the world…
In Christ all can be one (Gal. 1:28)

19. Our loving appeal to the world…
In Christ all can be one (Gal. 1:28)
Approving the things that are excellent – you can be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ (Phil. 1:10, 2 Cor. 5:10-11, Jude 24)

20. Our loving appeal to the world…
In Christ all can be one (Gal. 1:28)
Approving the things that are excellent – you can be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ (Phil. 1:10, 2 Cor. 5:10-11, Jude 24)
We manifest true love by telling you the truth (I Cor. 6:9-11)

21. Our loving appeal to the world…
In Christ all can be one (Gal. 3:28)
Approving the things that are excellent – you can be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ (Phil. 1:10, 2 Cor. 5:10-11, Jude 24)
We manifest true love by telling you the truth (I Cor. 6:9-11)
We love something about you which no screen can show: your soul (Matt. 16:26)