Big Thought: Only in Jesus can we truly experience
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I. True love is .
a. Permanent love is .
James 1:2-4 (ESV) – Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
1. Love stabilizes as we on each other.
2. Love stabilizes as we .
b. Permanent love is .
Psalm 18:2 (ESV) – The LORD is my rock, and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 77:11 (ESV) – I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
John 10:27-30 (ESV) – My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, ad they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
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II. True love is .
a. Love is as strong as .
b. Love is as jealous as the .
Holy jealousy is the righteous refusal to something that shouldn’t be .
Exodus 20:5-6 (ESV) – You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God ama jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
c. Love is an unquenchable .
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III. True love is .
1 John 4:9-10 (ESV) – In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John 15:13 (ESV) – Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
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IV. True love is .
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