Download Love - Power Points to Jesus

Original Power Point
By
Richard Thetford
www.thetfordcountry.com
Edited with additions of scriptures/etc
Jack Wheeler – Clovis Ca.
[email protected]
Give Diligence:
Add to Faith – Virtue
Add to Virtue – Knowledge
Add to Knowledge – Temperance
Add to Temperance – Patience
Add to Patience – Godliness
Add to Godliness – Brotherly Kindness
Add to Brotherly Kindness – Love
“For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that
you shall neither be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ”
Love
Most think of love as the outward acts
The gift of the
Father was
the act of love
John 3:16
“For God so loved the
world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him
should not perish but
have everlasting life.”
Importance of Christian Love
•Promises shown:
–God dwells in us
• 1 John 4:16
And we know and have believed the love
which God hath in us. God is love; and he
that abideth in love abideth in God, and God
abideth in him.
Importance of Christian Love
•Promises shown:
–Heirs of the kingdom
• James 2:5
Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God
choose them that are poor as to the world to
be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom
which he promised to them that love him?
Importance of Christian Love
•Promises shown:
–Receive the crown of life
• James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endures temptation;
for when he hath been approved, he shall
receive the crown of life, which the Lord
promised to them that love him.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Patience
–“suffers long”
• 1 Corinthians 13:4
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies
not; love vaunts not itself, love is not puffed
up,
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Patience
–“suffers long”
• 1 Peter 2:19-20
19 For
this is acceptable, if for conscience
toward God a man endures grief's,
suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it,
if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it, ye
shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do
well, and suffer for it, ye shall take it
patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Kindness
–“is kind”
• Ephesians 4:32
And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as
God also in Christ forgave you.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Liberality
–“does not envy”
• Romans 12:15
Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with
them that weep.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Humility
–“does not brag and is not arrogant”
• Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, And a
haughty spirit before a fall.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Humility
–“does not brag and is not arrogant”
• Matthew 18:3-4
3 and
said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye
turn, and become as little children, ye shall
in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself
as this little child, the same is the greatest in
the kingdom of heaven.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Courtesy
–“does not behave rudely”
• 1 Corinthians 13:5
doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh
not its own, is not provoked, taketh not
account of evil;
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Unselfish
–“does not seek its own”
• Philippians 2:4
not looking each of you to his own things,
but each of you also to the things of
others.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Unselfish
–“does not seek its own”
• 1 Corinthians 10:33
even as I also please all men in all
things, not seeking mine own profit,
but the profit of the many, that they
may be saved.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Good Temper
–“is not provoked”
• Proverbs 16:32
He that is slow to anger is better than the
mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit, than
he that taketh a city.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Justice
–“thinks no evil”
• Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirred up strife's; But love
covers all transgressions.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Justice
–“thinks no evil”
• Proverbs 17:9
He that covers a transgression seeketh
love; But he that harps on a matter
separates chief friends.
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Righteousness
–“rejoices in the truth”
• 1 Corinthians 13:6
rejoices not in unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth;
Characteristics of Christian Love
•Love is Righteousness
–“rejoices in the truth”
• 2 John 4
I rejoice greatly that I have found certain of
thy children walking in truth, even as we
received commandment from the Father.
Summary
•
7 bears
all things, believeth all things, hopes
all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails: but whether there be
prophecies, they shall be done away; whether
there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall be done away.
Summary
•Love Bears all things
•Love Believes all things
•Love Hopes all things
•Love Endures all things
•Love Never fails
CONCLUSION
•Faith will turn into reality
•Hope will be realized
•Love will endure forever!
“For if these things be in you and abound,
they make you that you shall neither be barren
or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ”
How Much Do
You Love
Jesus ?