INTRO: The Scripture we had read for us this morning is 1 John 4:7-21. In this passage the word love in various forms occurs 29 times in 15 verses! We could have read 1 Corinthians 13 as well. By the time this message is over you may want to read those passages again and look at them in an entirely different light. As a matter of fact, you may look at the word ‘love' with an entirely new possibility of meaning, or you might say, “This seems so far off, I will have to think or study this myself.”
Since the days of D.L. Moody, the message of the Church has largely been love, and I have said that we have OD'ed on the message of love. When the song writer wrote the song, “The Love of God”, He certainly did not overdo it. Paul says in Ephesians 3:19 that love surpasses knowledge. It is not our stress on the greatness of God's love that is the problem. The problem is our understanding of what true biblical agapee love is. I want to address that in this message. And if you say after this message, “I am going to check this out myself” I say, “Praise the Lord.” And if you find discrepancies or additions, I would appreciate hearing those.
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