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! Introduction:
!!!! Matthew 5:43-48
I. What Is Love?
A.
Four Kinds of Love
1.
There is “eros” love.
/a) /This is love that arises from passion, infatuation, and sexual attraction.
(1) It is the love (passion) of a man for a woman.
The word is never used in the New Testament.
2.
There is “storge” love.
/a) /This is love that arises from affection, a natural born affection, the affection of family love.
(1) It is the love and natural affection between parent and child.
3.
There is “phileo” love.
/a) /This is love that arises from affection also, it is a deep, intense, and warm affection.
(1) It is an affection that fills a person’s heart with warmth, tenderness, preciousness, and a deep consciousness of really loving and really being loved.
(2) It is the love of precious affection and feelings toward those who are very near and very dear to one’s heart.
4.
There is “agape” love.
/a) /It is a sacrificial love.
(1) It is a sacrificial love, that is, a love that cares, gives, and works for another person’s good—no matter how the person may respond or treat one.
(2) This is the love that wishes well.
It is a love that demonstrates kindness, benevolence, and esteem.
(3) It is the love of the mind, reason, and choice.
The word Christ uses in saying, “Love your enemies” is /agape/: the love that must be willed.
The Christian must use his mind and reason and deliberately choose to love his enemy.
/b) /Note four things:
(1) /The Christian’s love for his enemy is different from the love he holds for his family./
/(a) /It would be impossible to love an enemy with affection.
Christ knew this.
(2) /The Christian sacrifices himself, bears all in order to work for his enemy’s good./
/(a) /The Christian chooses deliberately to love a world of antagonistic men for their own good (their salvation and hope of eternity).
(3) /The Christian’s love is not complacent acceptance of open wickedness and license./
/(a) /1Corinthians 13:6 – /It is not sitting back and allowing a person to do as he pleases.
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/(b) /Proverbs 27:5 – /Agape love is putting a stop to sin and license as much as possible./
/(c) /It is restraint, control, discipline, and even punishment when it protects the offender from himself and protects those whom he hurts.
(4) /Agape love is God’s love./
/(a) /A Christian can have agape love only as he allows God to love through him (John 21:15-17)
/(b) /The believer deliberately wills to love as God loves, and God empowers him to do so (Romans 5:5).
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, (Matthew 5:44)
Repay no one evil for evil.
Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but /rather/ give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance /is/ Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.
Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head."
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
(Romans 12:17-21 /cf.
/1 Thess.5:15)
If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
(Exodus 23:4 /cf.
/Deuteronomy 22:1-4)
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; (Proverbs 24:17)
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For /so/ you will heap coals of fire on his head, And the LORD will reward you.
(Proverbs 25:21-22)
And /the/ second /is/ like it: `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
(Matthew 22:39)
/Let/ love /be/ without hypocrisy.
Abhor what is evil.
Cling to what is good.
(Romans 12:9)
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we /do/ to you, (1 Thessalonians 3:12)
If you really fulfill /the/ royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well; (James 2:8)
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God (1 John 4:7)
II.
Love & Commitment – John 21:15-17
A.
Our Love For God Prepares Us For Service
Peter knew that he had let Jesus down by denying Him three times prior to the Crucifixion.
But Peter also knew that Jesus had forgiven him.
So Jesus tested Peter by asking him the searching question, “Do you love Me?” three times.
/There is a difference between the questions Jesus asked of Peter.
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1.
Question 1 asked Peter who he loved the most, the Lord Himself or these (v.15)?
/a) /Just what is meant by “these” is not clear.
(1) /Jesus could have been pointing to the disciples sitting around/.
/(a) /If so, He meant, do you love me more than you love these men or your family?
(2) /Or, Jesus could have been pointing to the fish, the nets, and the boat./
/(a) /If so, He was asking, do you love me more than your profession and career (John 21:3)
(3) /Perhaps Scripture is unclear at this point/.
/(a) /This could be so in order to make “these” apply to anything and everything in our lives.
2.
Question 2 asked Peter if he loved with God’s love (v.16).
/a) /This is seen in the Greek word for love.
(1) /Jesus used one word, but Peter used another.
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/(a) /Jesus used the word /agape/, the highest form of love, the love of God Himself.
/(b) /But Peter did not reply, “Yea, Lord, I /agape/ you.”
He said, “Yea, Lord, I /phileo/ you.”
/(1) /That is, I love you just like a brother; I love you with a brotherly love.”
/Phileo/ means brotherly love, the love between two brothers.
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Question 3 probed the genuineness and loyalty of Peter’s love (v.17).
/a) /Here Jesus descended to the human level of love.
(1) /He used phileo./
/(a) /He simply asked Peter, “Peter, do you really love, /phileo/ me—even as a brother?”
/(1) /Questioning the loyalty of his love grieved Peter.
/(2) /But Jesus assured Peter that his love would one day reach the ultimate height (John 21:18).
/(3) /Peter would be called upon to demonstrate /agape/ love, the sacrificial love of God.
Peter would be called upon to die for Christ, to give his life for preaching the love of God to those who do not care for it and who react violently against it.
/b) /Jesus was preparing His disciples for /agape// /love.
(1) I/n Christ, God was showing the world a new kind of love—agape love./
/(a) / Agape became the love that was willing to give and die even for an enemy (Jn.3:16)
(2) /Peter and the disciples did not yet understand this./
/(a) /The Holy Spirit had not yet been given, and /agape love/ is shed abroad in the heart only by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5).
It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22 /cf./
Phil.2:13).
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