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By This We Know Love
Valentine’s Day
The origin of this holiday for the expression of love really isn't romantic at all—at least not in the traditional sense.
Father Frank O'Gara of Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin, Ireland, tells the real story of the man behind the holiday—St.
Valentine.
"He was a Roman Priest at a time when there was an emperor called Claudias who persecuted the church at that particular time," Father O'Gara explains.
" He also had an edict that prohibited the marriage of young people.
This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them or their wives or families if they died."
"I think we must bear in mind that it was a very permissive society in which Valentine lived," says Father O'Gara.
"Polygamy would have been much more popular than just one woman and one man living together.
And yet some of them seemed to be attracted to Christian faith.
But obviously the church thought that marriage was very sacred between one man and one woman for their life and that it was to be encouraged.
And so it immediately presented the problem to the Christian church of what to do about this."
"The idea of encouraging them to marry within the Christian church was what Valentine was about.
And he secretly married them because of the edict."
Valentine was eventually caught, imprisoned and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against command of Emperor Claudius the second.
There are legends surrounding Valentine's actions while in prison.
"One of the men who was to judge him in line with the Roman law at the time was a man called Asterius, whose daughter was blind.
He was supposed to have prayed with and healed the young girl with such astonishing effect that Asterius himself became Christian as a result."
In the year 269 AD, Valentine was sentenced to a three part execution of a beating, stoning, and finally decapitation all because of his stand for Christian marriage.
The story goes that the last words he wrote were in a note to Asterius' daughter.
He inspired today's romantic missives by signing it, "from your Valentine."
"What Valentine means to me as a priest," explains Father O'Gara, "is that there comes a time where you have to lay your life upon the line for what you believe.
And with the power of the Holy Spirit we can do that —even to the point of death."
St. Valentine, the Real Story
David Kithcart (700 Club Features Director)
What is Love?
We misunderstand “love” because we only have one word in the English language.
“I love by car!”
“I love my dog!”
“I love sports!”
“I love pizza!”
“I love you too!”
There are four words for love in the Greek language (actually there are more, but these are the most commonly discussed)
Eros: Sexual, physical love between the sexes.
Must stem from the other types of love.
It must be combined with agape to be godly.
(This Greek word is not found in the Greek New Testament)
Storge: Affection; love of kindred as between a parent and child or the involuntary affection of the citizen for his country.
It must mixed with other kind of love to mean anything.
Phileo: Friendship love; general human love.
Agape (See Jn 13:34): Learning and finding the good and worth of someone; making the person who is the object of agape both valuable and precious.
In summary, the love of God is selfless and sacrificial.
How Important is love?
How do we show God that we love Him?
By following His example of laying down our life for Him
By showing His love to those whom He loves.
Jesus tests Peter’s love for Him
Twice, Jesus asked Peter if he “loved” Him (agape).
Peter replied that he “loved” (phileo) Jesus.
The third time, Jesus asked Peter, “Do you love (phileo) Me?”
This grieved Peter because of his previous denial of Jesus.
We show our love for Jesus by feeding and caring for those He loves and died for.
We show our love for Jesus by being willing to lay down our life for Him.
Response to the Word
How can we say we would lay down our life for Jesus if we are unwilling to lay down our lifestyle for Jesus?
How can we say say we love God if we hate our brother?
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