Sermon Series: 1 John
Speaker: Pastor Sam DeVille
Location: Flint Baptist Church, Tyler Texas
Date: Sunday, April 5th, 2020, AM

Today's Bible Reading: 1 John 4:7-8,21,9-11
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Four Words For Love
1. Eros
2. Storgos
3. Phileo
4. Agape

The Creator of Love
The Characteristics of Love
The Commission to Love

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 KJV
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

CHARACTERISTICS OF LOVE
Love is Patient
Love is Kind
Love is Not Jealous
Love is Not Boastful

DELIGHT IN TRUTH
You are of God
You are an Overcomer
Greater is "He that is in me!!!!"

LOVE IS NOT AN OPTION
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

AGAPE LOVE IS AN IMPOSSIBILITY
Philippians 3:12-14 KJV
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.