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2. Love Is Not Sex Gives Will Emote Truth based Will Commit Is from God If I…know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2 Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Song of Songs 8:6

3. Love Is not SEX GIVESCommits Is from God Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16 God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16

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5.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close” Magical Data

6.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul And may the Lord make us keep our promises to each other… 1 Samuel 20:23

7.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit  The heart of love For love is as strong as death, its [zeal] as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned. Song of Songs 8:6-7

8.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit  The heart of love  The heart of God “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. Jeremiah 31:3

9.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit  The heart of love  The heart of God  “In the Lord…” We love, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19

10.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit  The heart of love  The heart of God  “In the Lord…”  Realistic  Able to reciprocate Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself. 1 Samuel 18:1

11.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit  The heart of love  The heart of God  “In the Lord…”  Realistic  VOCALLY Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. 1 Samuel 18:3

12.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit 2. Invest Regular Time Vulnerable: “Lean on me…” “…Your love to me was more wonderful Than the love of women.” 2 Sam. 1:26

13.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit 2. Invest 3. Promote  Means forgiveness Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses. Proverbs 10:12

14.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul 1. Commit 2. Invest 3. Promote  Means forgiveness  “YOUR needs…” Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life. 1 Samuel 20:17

15.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul Commit InvestPromote Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Song of Songs 8:6

16.  NOT 50 Best Friends  NOT “Feeling Close”  IS: “Keep…promises…”  Jonathon:  Loyal to David  Loyal to Saul Faith Commit Hope Invest Love Promote Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13