Its interesting to note that the Greek term agape, draws its meaning directly from the revelation of God the Bible. It is not a form of natural affection, but rather a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22). John tells us that God is the very essence of agape love (1 John 4:8,16; cf. John 3:16-17) .<\/p>\n
Agape love is based upon a matter of the will rather than of feeling, as demonstrated by our Lords teaching in Matthew 5:44-48, where He teaches that we must love even those folks we dislike and are unlikeable. Agape love is the basic element in being Christ-like (Gal. 2:20; cf. Ephesians 5:1-2; Titus 2:13-14).<\/p>\n
In 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter), we can clearly see the primacy (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NIV), the profile [analysis] (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV), and the permanence (1 Corinthians 13:8-13 NIV) of love. The kind of love that energizes faith itself (Gal. 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3).<\/p>\n
There are many examples of agape love (folks loving the unlovable) in the Bible. Two examples are (1)<\/strong> Josephs kindness to his brothers (Genesis 50:15-21) even though they sold him into slavery (Genesis 37:15-28), and (2)<\/strong> Davids strained relationship with Saul. David had several opportunities of killing Saul, but instead showed kindness to him (1 Samuel 24:16-19).<\/p>\n Our Lord demonstrated true agape love when He willingly died for the unlovable (Romans 5:1-10). As followers of Christ, we are to love the unlovable as well (Matthew 5:44-48; cf. Luke 23:33-34; Acts 7:54-60).<\/p>\n Lets willingly demonstrate the agape love of God to the unlovable in our walk with the Lord (Titus 2:7-8; cf. 2 Corinthians 5:11-15; 1 Timothy 6:1-3; 1 Peter 2:18-23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Its interesting to note that the Greek term agape, draws its meaning directly from the revelation of God the Bible. It is not a form of natural affection, but rather a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22). John tells us that God is the very essence of agape love (1 John 4:8,16; cf. John 3:16-17) … Continue reading “Demonstrating The Agape Love Of God – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}