This document is a slide presentation on keeping love alive. It discusses loving your spouse as Christ loved the church, references scripture passages about God's covenant with Israel and how their love grew cold, and examines passages about loving God, neighbors, and fellow believers. The presentation encourages examining one's own faith and maintaining love as the foremost commandment.

2. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and
gave Himself up for her.
- Ephesians 5:25 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Husbands Love Your Wives
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6. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and
gave Himself up for her.
- Ephesians 5:25 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Love Your Wives as Christ Loved the Church
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7. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and
the church.
- Ephesians 5:32 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Speaking with Reference to the Church
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8. 31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
32Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I
took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My
covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 31:31-32 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: God Will Make a New Covenant
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9. 6 “ ‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a
father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’
says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But
you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’ 7 “You are presenting
defiled food upon My altar. But you say, ‘How have we defiled You?’ In
that you say, ‘The table of the LORD is to be despised.’ 8 “But when
you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you present
the lame and sick, is it not evil? Why not offer it to your governor?
Would he be pleased with you?
- Malachi 1:6-8 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Israel's Love Had Grown Cold
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10. 9 “But now will you not entreat God’s favor, that He may be gracious to
us? With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you
kindly?” says the LORD of hosts. 10 “Oh that there were one among
you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire
on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of hosts, “nor
will I accept an offering from you.
- Malachi 1:9-10 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Israel's Love Had Grown Cold
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11. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Revelation 21:2 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: The Church is the Bride of Christ
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12. The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say,
"Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes
take the water of life without cost.
- Revelation 22:17 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: The Church is the Bride of Christ
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13. 2 ‘I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you
cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call
themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;
3 and you have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake,
and have not grown weary. 4 ‘But I have this against you, that you
have left your first love.'
- Revelation 2:2-4 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: To the Church at Ephesus
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14. 11 God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
12so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to
the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.
17 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in
Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus
was being magnified. 18 Many also of those who had believed kept
coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. 19 And many of
those who practiced magic brought their books together and began
burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of
them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So the word of the
Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.
- Acts 19:11-12; 17-20 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: To the Church at Ephesus
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15. For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which
exists among you and your love for all the saints,
- Ephesians 1:15 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: To the Church at Ephesus
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16. Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do
the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove
your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.
- Revelation 2:5 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: To the Church at Ephesus
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17. 14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful
and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: 15 ‘I
know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you
were cold or hot. 16 ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot
nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
- Revelation 3:14-16 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: To the Church at Laodicea
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18. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as
I have loved you, that you also love one another.
- John 13:34 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Love One Another as Christ Has Loved
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19. Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a
sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,
- 1 Peter 1:22 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Love One Another From the Heart
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20. 34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the
Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 35 One of them, a
lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, 36 “Teacher, which is the
great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “ ‘YOU
SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ 38 “This is the
great and foremost commandment. 39 “The second is like it, ‘YOU
SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ 40 “On these two
commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
- Matthew 22:34-40 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Love the Lord With Our All
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21. Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or
do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in
you—unless indeed you fail the test?
- 2 Corinthians 13:5 NASB
KEEPING LOVE ALIVE: Examine Yourselves
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