4 Pillars of True Love

A lot of us know JESUS LOVES US but we DON’T BELIEVE IT.

Love helps us to KNOW Truth!!! And what is the counterfeit.

Lust is the counterfeit of love.

Love can wait. Lust has to have it now.

Have you ever been in a relationship where the other person keeps pressuring you to do something or be someone you’re not out of “love?” That’s just one example of how lust is misunderstood as love in a relationship, friendly or romantic. You see, love really is patient. Someone who loves you isn’t going to put pressure on you to be something that you aren’t. Someone who loves you isn’t going to constantly nag you to try to get something out of you. That’s lust. Lust can’t wait like love can. Lust is impatient.

Love is selfless. Lust is selfish.

Selflessness is defined as having or showing great concern for other people and little or no concern for yourself. Selfishness is the exact opposite of that. Now this doesn’t mean by showing little concern for yourself you let someone else dictate your life, it just means that you don’t put your needs above theirs. The correlation between lust and selfishness is a large part of why relationships become so stressful and full of anxiety.

Selfishness can be as simple as always getting what you want and making your partner give in or as complex as manipulating them by taking advantage of their emotions.

Love develops. Lust destroys.

Without love as the base for a relationship, chances are things aren’t going to last. How many relationships do you know of that have succeeded with lust as the base? Probably not many if any at all.

Love develops relationships into something greater, something with a purpose. Lust only tears down relationships over time. There’s a common phrase for relationships that start to burn out after a month or so–being past the honeymoon stage. Nine times out of ten, those types of relationships are ones built off of the lustful desire for someone rather than love. Once that desire starts to fade, so does the relationship.

Love is of God. Lust is of the world.

Love is the best way to describe God. God is, by definition, love. Everything that He says and does is out of love. So when I say love is an important base for a relationship, I also mean God.

So next time you’re looking to start a relationship, keep these things in mind. Make sure God and His definition of love are the strong foundation of your relationship. Love never fails.

WE are called to Love, what is real, hate that which is false.

  • Most girls never have been loved in their life!!!
  • Because God is Love and you can never KNOW REAL LOVE WITHOUT GOD.

4 Pillars of True Love

  1. FAITHFULNESS UNTIL DEATH– Have you ever loved anybody like this? No, then you have never really loved or been loved.
  • God’s love is steadfast and unfailing, as Psalm 136 reminds us with the refrain, “His love endures forever.” His faithfulness spans all generations, offering us unwavering hope and assurance.
  • In Lamentations 3:22-23, we see that “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.” This truth assures us that His love meets us afresh each day.
  • Romans 8:38-39 declares that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus. His love is a constant, an anchor through every trial, proving His eternal faithfulness.

God’s love is a foundation we can rely on, unshaken by the changes of life.

Jesus loves you… (so will a godly husband)

That love is a committed love… God committed to you… God loves you with covenant relationship …Jesus longs to save you and protect you… His desire is what’s best for you!!! He wants to spend time with you…

2. It is a journey of INTIMATE KNOWING—A Depth of Caring, Depth of listening and closeness in Relationship and INTIMACY- Into You I See!

3. A spirit of SACRIFICIAL LOVE– I will live for you and I will die for you! Love your wife like Christ loved the church!!- Just as husband and wife are to be “one flesh”,[Eph. 5:31] this analogy for the writer describes the relationship of Christ and ekklēsia.[Eph. 5:32] Husbands were exhorted to love their wives “just as Christ loved the ekklēsia and gave himself for it.[Eph. 5:25] When Christ nourishes and cherishes the ekklēsia, he nourishes and cherishes his own flesh. Just as the husband, when he loves his wife… is loving his own flesh.[Eph. 5:28]  Sacrificial and mutual love become one in Christian covenant love. Love is a gift and it gives all to serve and bless the other individual. In this love there is life literally, physically, harmoniously, sacrificial love resulting in ecstasy.

4. A COVENANT LOVE

A passionate celebration of a Covenant Love- an unbroken bond forged together by a godly love where everything is a type of the cross of Christ.

A passionate celebration of a Covenant Love—

  1. A woman’s virginity is a type of the cross.
  2. Men your circumcision is a type of the cross.
  3. Women your menstrual cycle is a type of covenant life.
  4. Men your seed is a type of covenant.  

1 John 4:16-19 (KJV)
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear IN LOVE; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Lord Jesus Help us in Marriage to Love each other because we love Him so much.

Pastor Aaron Trimble