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Love vs Infatuation

Changeable

Feelings

Enduring

Principle

Love vs Infatuation

Love never Fails

If the thoughts are wrong, the feelings will be wrong;

and the thoughts and feelings combined make up the

moral character. When you decide that as Christians

you are not required to restrain your thoughts and

feelings, you are brought under the influence of evil

angels, and invite their presence and their control. If

you yield to your impressions, and allow your thoughts

to run in a channel of suspicion, doubt, and repining,

you will be among the most unhappy of mortals, and

your lives will prove a failure. {MYP 92}

• Reasoning Power is

switched off

Passion is

Blind • Power of Choice is

active

Sees &

Examines

Love vs Infatuation

Prov 23:7 For as he thinketh i his heart, so is he…

Prov 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out

of it are the issues of life.

• Figure

• Fashing

• Sex Appeal

Focus on

Externals • Personality

• Habits

• Character

Focus on

Internal

Love vs Infatuation

• Suggestive Speech

• Thoughtlessly

Impure

• Wholesome

• Thoughtfully

Pure

Love vs Infatuation

Love is the agent which God uses to expel sin from the heart

• What I want

• What you ll give

Self-Centered

• What you want

• What I can do

Self-Sacrificing

Love vs Infatuation

• Servant of

Circumstances

Operates by

Chance • Master of

Circumstances

Operates by

Divine Design

Love vs Infatuation

• Hollywood

• Bollywood

Comes from

Satan • Heaven

Comes from

God

Love vs Infatuation

Developing

True Motivation

Spiritual

(Love)

Mental

(Law)

Physical

(Labour)

Spiritual

(Love)

Mental

(Law)

Physical

(Labour)

No Love – No Fuel – No

Motive

All will be – boring

Daily labour – drudgery

Motivation

Methods /

Guidelines

Mission

Neighborhood +

worldwide

Spiritual

(Love)

Mental

(Law)

Physical

(Labour)


Motive



No Law – No Strategy – No Map

No Blue Print – No Purpose

Life – Haphazard - labour

Motivation

Methods /

Guidelines

Mission

Neighborhood +

worldwide

Spiritual

(Love)

Mental

(Law)

Physical

(Labour)


Motive



No Labour – No Activity – No

Driving

Life – Mere Emotion - dead




Motivation

Methods /

Guidelines

Mission

Neighborhood +

worldwide

Spiritual

(Love)

Mental

(Law)

Physical

(Labour)

Love + Law + Labour = LIFE

Love + Law - Labour = 0

Love - Law + Labour = 0

- Love + Law + Labour = 0


Motive



No Labour – No Activity – No

Driving

Life – Mere Emotion - dead




No Love = Unpleasant

No Law = Confusion

No Labour = Mere Dreams

Motivation

Methods /

Guidelines

Mission

Neighborhood +

worldwide

God s Co a d e ts

Love for God

1. No other God before

Him

2. No images

3. Not misusing His name

4. Observing Sabbath

Love for Human

5. Honour Parents

6. Not Killing

7. Not committing adultery

8. Not stealing

9. No false witness

10.Not oveti g others belongings

Love God Supremely Love Human like yourself

Living Things

Non-living

Place

Shopping

Work

Sports

Title / Position

Power

Fame

Entertainment

Studies

U dersta di g God’s Lo e

BEAUTY OF GOD’S LOVE

God is

determined to

win us back.

He has decided

to love us

irrespective of

the consequence

Nothing can stop

Him.

Nothing can

discourage Him.

Nothing can

defect Him.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Heb.13:8


•Love can never lose its

value; it is the attribute of

heaven.

•Love is not simply an

impulse, a transitory

emotion, and dependent

upon circumstances. It is a

living and divine principle,

a permanent power.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Heb.13:8


You can IGNORE

God or

REJECT, DENY,

MOCK, CURSE,

HATE, BLAME,

SHUT DOWN

GOD..

You can do

anything, but one

thing you can

never do – you

can never make

God stop loving

you. NEVER.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke 23:34


•Love can never lose its

value; it is the attribute of

heaven.

•Love will gain the victory

when argument and

authority are powerless.

•Love works neither for

profit nor reward.

•True Love can enable one to

withstand trial and

temptation.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke 23:34


God does not

wait for us to fall

in love with Him.

No matter how

far we run from

Him, no matter

how deeply we

plunge into sin,

no matter how

helpless &

hopeless we may

feel, God comes

looking for us.

We love Him, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19


•Love cannot live without

action, and every act

increases, strengthens, and

extends it.

•Love cannot long exist

without expression.

• Love is expressed in

obedience, and perfect love

removes out all fear.

• Genuine faith is followed

by love, and love by

obedience.

•Love is not unreasonable.

•Love is not blind.

We love Him, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19


Once God

begins loving

someone, He

never stops.

His love for you

will never fail or

fade.

His love is as long

as He is…

I (God) have loved thee with an everlasting love. Jer.31:3


•Love is not an emotion or an

impulse, but a decision of a

sanctified will.

•Love consists not in feeling

but in the transformation of

the whole heart, soul, and

character, which is dead to

self and alive unto God.

•Love modifies the character,

governs the impulses,

controls the passions,

subdues enmity, and

elevates and ennobles the

affections.

I (God) have loved thee with an everlasting love. Jer.31:3


If I eautiful, ay e you ll

love me.

If I good, ay e you ll love e. If I su essful,

ay e you ll love me.

If I love u, maybe

you ll love e. God s love is enough –no

conditions

God co e deth His lo e to ard us… hile e ere yet si ers Rom5:8

Secret of Success

Love is the agent which God uses to expel sin from the heart.

When self is merged in God , love springs forth spontaneously.

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