2. “Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything without weakening.
Love never fails, never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end.”-- 1 Corinthians 13:7-9 AMP

3. “As for prophecies, they will be brought to an end
“As for prophecies, they will be brought to an end. As for tongues, they will stop. As for knowledge, it will be brought to an end”
1 Corinthians 13:8 CEB

4. “We know that we have transferred from death to life, because we love the brother and sisters. The person who does not love remains in death”
1 John 3:14 CEB

5. LOVE IN REVIEW

6. LOVE IN REVIEW
Love is a command

7. LOVE IN REVIEW
Love is a command
Love is Divine

8. LOVE IN REVIEW
Love is a command
Love is Divine
Love is imperative

9. Love is that active expression of the nature of God that demonstrates itself by giving itself away. If it is genuine, it will always give glory on to the source of that love;
God Himself.

10. Man giving himself away in such a way that brings glory to God
Love is that active expression of the nature of God that demonstrates itself by giving itself away. If it is genuine, it will always give glory on to the source of that love;
God Himself.
Love is:
Man giving himself away in such a way that brings glory to God

11. LOVE: A REVELATION

12. “This is the message that you heard from the beginning: love each other.”
1 John 3:11 CEB

13. “Don’t behave like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he kill him because his own works were evil, but the works of his brother were righteous.”
1 John 3:12 CEB

14. “Don’t be surprised brother and sisters, if the world hates you.”
1 John 3:13 CEB

15. “We know that we have transferred from death to life, because we love the brother and sisters. The person who does not love remains in death.”
1 John 3:14 CEB

16. “Everyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you now that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.”
1 John 3:15 CEB

17. “This is how we know love: Jesus laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.”
1 John 3:16 CEB

18. “But if a person has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need and that person doesn’t care—how can the love of God remain in him?”
1 John 3:17 CEB

19. “Little children, let’s not love with words or speech but with action and truth.”
1 John 3:18 CEB

20. WHAT ARE THESE VERSES TELLING US
The message isn’t new

21. WHAT ARE THESE VERSES TELLING US The message isn’t new
Jealousy and greed are often the reason we don’t love

22. WHAT ARE THESE VERSES TELLING US The message isn’t new
Jealousy and greed are often the reason we don’t love
Don’t necessarily measure the depth of your love by the response of the world to your love

23. WHAT ARE THESE VERSES TELLING US Key verse in passage, verse 16
It says that this is how you come to
understand God’s perception of love.
You look at the cross

24. WHAT ARE THESE VERSES TELLING US If that’s how God demonstrated love
when He was on this earth, then His
plan to demonstrate love in us and
through us will be the same

25. WHAT ARE THESE VERSES TELLING US John knew the tendency would be to
talk about it, not to do it.
So he continued in verse 16:
“Little children, let’s not love with
words or speech but with action and
truth.”

26. He also knew that we might not understand what loving in action and truth meant, so he gave us an example in verse 17

27. He also knew that we might not understand what loving in action and truth meant, so he gave us an example in verse 17
“But if a person has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need and that person doesn’t care—how can the love of God remain in him?”

28. LOVE: A REFLECTION

29. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”

30. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”
“It looks for a way of being constructive…”

31. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”
“It looks for a way of being constructive…”
“It is not possessive...”

32. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”
“It looks for a way of being constructive…”
“It is not possessive...”
“It is neither anxious to impress, nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance…”

33. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”
“It looks for a way of being constructive…”
“It is not possessive...”
“It is neither anxious to impress, nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance…”
“Love has good manners”

34. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”
“It looks for a way of being constructive…”
“It is not possessive...”
“It is neither anxious to impress, nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance…”
“Love has good manners”
“Love is not touchy”

35. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”
“It looks for a way of being constructive…”
“It is not possessive...”
“It is neither anxious to impress, nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance…”
“Love has good manners”
“Love is not touchy”
“Love doesn’t keep account of evil, or gloat over the wickedness of other people.”

36. “The love I speak of is slow to lose patients”
“It looks for a way of being constructive…”
“It is not possessive...”
“It is neither anxious to impress, nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance…”
“Love has good manners”
“Love is not touchy”
“Love doesn’t keep account of evil, or gloat over the wickedness of other people.”
“On the contrary, love shares the joy of those who live by the truth.”

37. “Love knows no limit to its endurance,
no end to its trust, no fading of its
hope; it can outlast anything.
Love never fails.”