Characteristics of Love

All You Need Is Love
Characteristics of Love

I. Introduction

A. I Corinthians 13:4-8 (NLT) ⁴Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. ⁶It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. ⁸Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!

B. If you just let your life “,” you will “drift” into becoming a more loving person!

II. Characteristics of Love

A. Love is .

1. The skill of –

2. “Practicing control”

3. We all have to learn how to use –!

B. Love is .

1. I John 3:18 (NAS) Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

2. The skill of

C. Love is not .

1. James 3:16 (NAS) For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

2. The skill of

3. “What do I really in this life?”

4. Romans 6:23a (NAS) For the wages of sin is death.

D. Love does not and is not .

1. I Corinthians 13:4b (NLT) Love is not jealous or boastful or proud.

2. The skill of –

E. Love is not .

1. The skill of

F. Love is not –.

1. The skill of being –

2. Philippians 2:3-4 (NAS) ³Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; ⁴do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

G. Love is not easily .

1. The “–” skill

H. Love keeps no record of .

1. The skill of “”

I. Love always , trusts, and .

1. Love makes the choice to the !

2. The skill of

3. Deeply loving people on others!

4. Revelation 3:20 (NAS) ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.’

5. “How long did Jesus knock on the door of before you opened it?”

III. Conclusion