2. Love is A-C-T-I-O-N I Corinthians 13:4-8

3. Love is love 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (ESV) 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

4. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 1.The Starting Point: Galatians 5:22 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE……

5. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 2.Sustaining Process: MacArthur states, “this is a key N.T. Word only known entirely and fully to a person who is a Christian.

6. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 3.Stabilizing Force: Love is under control in order to win the person and to help them to live, work, and serve as they should.

7. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 4. Simple and Complex Together: Love is to be found willing to suffer long until it is realized; until love changes someone, THEN they too realize the Love of God.

8. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is the capacity to be wronged and not to choose retaliation James 5:7,8 James 5:7,8 Rom. 12:12 Rom. 12:12 I Cor 13:7 I Cor 13:7 2 Tim 2:10,12 2 Tim 2:10,12 Heb 12:2 and 2 Peter 3:9 Heb 12:2 and 2 Peter 3:9

9. Love Is….. I Corinthians 13:4-8 Life StepsThe More Excellent Way… Action: Love coming out of me or received by me is the Fruit of the Holy Spirit in me. “Love is patient” Only God sustains me to love a world that does not love me Love suffers long to see change from God: