This document discusses the concept of love from a Christian perspective. It defines love as obeying God's commands and describes how God shows his love through sending Jesus to die for humanity's sins. It outlines that Christians must love God with their whole being, love others as Jesus loved, love their wives as Christ loved the church, love their neighbors as themselves, and even love their enemies. The document contrasts immature loves that seek one's own wants, happiness and glory, with mature love from God that seeks the glory of others over one's own desires.

1. THE GLORY OF LOVE
Ernie Prabhakar
KingsWay Community Church April 29, 2012

2. GLORY
a distinguished quality or
asset
“best attributes”
that secures praise or
renown
“celebrated”

3. LOVE

4. THE
FOUR
LOVES
C. S. Lewis

5. DOES GOD REALLY
LOVE ME?

6. WHAT IS LOVE?

7. 1 John 4:8 (NIV)
Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love.

8. 1 John 4:16 (NIV)
And so we know and rely on the love God
has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in
love lives in God, and God in him.

9. 1 John 4:10 (NIV)
This is love: not that we loved God, but
that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins.

10. 1 John 5:3 (NIV)
This is love for God: to obey his
commands. And his commands are not
burdensome,

11. 2 John 1:6 (NIV)
And this is love: that we walk in obedience
to his commands. As you have heard from
the beginning, his command is that you
walk in love.

12. LOVE IS...
What God is
God sending Jesus to die for us
Obeying the commands of a God who loves us

13. WHO IS LOVED?

14. Luke 10:27 (NIV)
He answered: "'Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your strength and with all your
mind';
and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

15. John 13:34 (NIV)
"A new command I give you: Love one
another. As I have loved you, so you must
love one another.

16. Ephesians 5:25 (NIV)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
loved the church and gave himself up for
her

17. Matthew 5:44 (NIV)
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you,

18. WE MUST LOVE:

19. WE MUST LOVE:
God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength

20. WE MUST LOVE:
God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength
One another as Jesus loved us

21. WE MUST LOVE:
God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength
One another as Jesus loved us
Our wives as Christ loved the church

22. WE MUST LOVE:
God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength
One another as Jesus loved us
Our wives as Christ loved the church
Our neighbor as ourselves

23. WE MUST LOVE:
God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength
One another as Jesus loved us
Our wives as Christ loved the church
Our neighbor as ourselves
Our enemies

24. THREE LOVES

25. I. INFANTILE
My wants
“Storge” - Affection
I love you
Because you give me
what I want
I know you love me
Because you give me
what I want

26. II. CHILDLIKE
Our happiness
“Phileo” - Friendship
I love you
Because we make each
other happy
I know you love me
Because we make each
other happy

27. III. MATURE
Your glory
“Agape” - Covenant
I love you
Because you seek my glory
I know you love me
Because you seek my glory

29. TRAINER: DAY 1
I hate you.
You make me do things I don’t want to do.
My muscles ache. My joints creak. My steps are slow.
I feel ten years older.

30. TRAINER: DAY 30
I feel ten years younger.
My muscles are stronger. My joints flex. My steps are
springy.
You make me do things I don’t want to do.
I love you.

31. WHY DO WE SIN

32. James 4 :1-3 (NIV)
What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don’t they come from your desires that
battle within you?
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You
covet but you cannot get what you want, so
you quarrel and fight.

33. You do not have because you do not ask
God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because
you ask with wrong motives, that you may
spend what you get on your pleasures.

34. WE DON’T BELIEVE
GOD LOVES US

35. OUR FLESH SEEKS...
What we want
Then our happiness
Then our glory
Our glory
At the price of destroying His glory

37. GOD LOVES US
MATURELY

38. GOD’S SPIRIT SEEKS...
Our glory
Then our happiness
Then our wants
Our glory
At the price of veiling His glory

40. WE MUST LOVE AS
GOD LOVES

41. OUR SPIRIT SEEKS...
God’s glory
Then our glory
Then our happiness
Then our wants
Our glory is found in revealing His glory

43. Luke 9:24 (NLT)
If you try to hang on to your life, you will
lose it. But if you give up your life for my
sake, you will save it.

44. Reason
HOPE FAITH
SOUL MIND
body
Emotion Decision
HEART
LOVE

45. John 11:33-36 (NIV)
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews
who had come along with her also weeping,
he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
“Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
Jesus wept.
Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

47. GOD REALLY
LOVES ME

48. GIVE GLORY TO GOD