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Intro
What is love.
Who just thought of lyrics to a song?
There are so many songs written about love spreading across all genres of music.
Love of people, animals, money, things.
Love entertains us.
Many books and most tv shows and movies have some sort of story of love running in them
Love is important.
We see the word love a lot in the Bible.
We see words translated to love or words that relate to love 458 times in the OT and 286 times in the NT.
That’s a total of 744 times.
In our passage today though, Paul is not speaking about any old love.
Paul is speaking about perfect love.
Love that binds.
The love of Christ.
Through our text for today we will see that it is when we put on the love of Christ we are united together as children of God.
Love over all.
If we are continuing with the clothing metaphor that Paul begins for when in verse 9 he states for believers to put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self.
We might look at the list of virtues given in verse 12 as different articles of clothing, similar to the armor of God analogy that Paul uses in Ephesians.
Here he is a bit less specific but there is a reason for that.
The purpose for each of these is a bit different than the armor.
These virtues are to be worn under that armor.
Picture with me the shirt of compassion, pants of humility, socks of kindness.
These things are replacing old dirty garments.
Paul here in verse 14 though is telling us to put on more.
This last piece is an extremely important one because it is all encompassing.
Paul is in essence telling us as believers to now put on the outercoat of love.
We don’t often see outercoats as much anymore because modern synthetic fibers have taken their place.
The purpose of the outer coat though was to provide more warmth and protection from the elements.
Love in that sense is the thing that binds and protects.
Paul is stating here that it is overarching love that bonds each of the virtues he listed together.
It is with a compassionate heart that we are to show love, with kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
And it is because we love one another that we can bear with one another, that we can forgive each other.
Love is both the overarching and underlying connection.
This of course is not the only place Paul speaks about love. 1 cor 13?
The whole purpose of this love as Paul writes in the second half of the verse is that it binds everything together in perfect harmony.
It is love that unites people, families, and churches together.
Specifically the love of Christ.
Love that unites.
If we look to some of Paul’s other writings, it is difficult to speak of love without referring to 1 Cor.
Love truly is the root of each of the virtues that we as children of God are to put on.
Love is not simply a further item brought alongside the others; rather it is the source from which all those qualities hitherto mentioned derive their existence.”
Love must be a, if not the priority in the body of Christ.
If we think of the church is like a big family, because as believers we are all children of God, we are to love one another.
I don’t know about your family but mine does not always get along.
There are all kinds of stressors in life that cause problems.
If this were easy Paul would not have had to write about it, and then write about it again, and again.
There are going to be conflicts, there are going to be misunderstandings.
If there is love in a family, if there is love in the family of God, it is from a deliberate effort to work through hurt feelings and disagreements.
If it were easy, if we got along all the time we wouldn’t need to be told to be patient, kind, compassionate, humble, and meek.
Who remembers their first crush?
Do you remember the feeling?
Those that are married, do you remember the feeling of love from the early times of your marriage.
Maybe you are still in it.
Has it changed?
I would hope so, I would hope that your love for each other has deepened and grown.
As children, our love for our parents changes and grows as we change and grow.
As parents, our love for our children changes as they change and grow.
The root stays the same though.
Our desire is ought to be what is best for the other person regardless of ourselves.
One of the best pieces of advice I have gotten when it comes to marriage and relationships I heard from my parents.
You may have heard this before yourself.
My parents told me and I saw it modeled that we may not always like each other, but we always love each other.
Love in this context is the tie that binds.
Love is the choice that is made.
Love is the promise that is kept.
This applies to more than just the marriage relationship.
This applies to our families as well as to our church relationships.
We as believers are part of the family of God.
We may not always like each other but we have a choice.
We must choose to love one another.
It is the overarching love that Paul tells us to put on that unites us a believers.
We must also remember as well that Paul is not giving this as an option.
Paul is still instructing believers that you must do this.
He’s not saying, oh you can love that person if you feel like it.
No he is taking the basis for this directly from Jesus teaching.
If we look directly to Jesus teaching.
This just names a few.
The kind of love that is shown here is true, selfless, undeserving love.
The love of the Father for His children.
Think about love from God’s perspective,
God, because of His love, sent His Son to die.
If we sit and think on that for a moment.
This is a self-sacrificing, all caring, commitment.
God shows himself to be seeking the greatest good for mankind, His creation.
Jesus prays in
Jesus asks for unity not for easier, better relationships, but that the world may know that God sent him and loves them.
The love of God unites, love binds, love shines.
This is the love that saves.
This is the love that unites the virtues and gives them value.
This is the love that unites believers together as well as to Christ.
This is the love that we must put on.
Put on the love of Christ
The love of Christ is more than a love that tolerates.
True love changes a person in a way that tolerance can’t.
The love of Christ more than tolerates us, it changes us.
This is a love that changes us both inside and out.
Inwardly, love is more than a warm fuzzy feeling.
Love is more than always being nice.
If this is our view of love, we are missing the heart of true biblical love.
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