Loving Beyond Reason Series

Do you know what Courteous is?

It is just love in little things.

And the person who doesn’t love in the little things,

You can bet, doesn’t love in the big things.

And when you find a person who is rude, you find an unloving person.

6. it is self denying love

vs. 5 – does not seek its own

it doesn’t say me first,

It never says I know my rights.

Any time you hear a person say, I know my rights

They are not speaking from love,

Why pastor?

Because when you got saved you just lost all your rights.

You see: What rights does a dead man have?

The bible says in

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

You are not your own,

Your bought with a price, you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.

And you rights are now his rights.

And he is the one who has commanded you to love,

You can no longer seek your own.

Bill Gotheier said

If you teach somebody their rights, you will have a revolution

But if you teach people their responsibility, you will have a revival.

If we could ever stop thinking about our rights and start thinking about our responsibility,

And stop seeking our own and start seeking, to love an bless other people,

Things will change in our world.

7. True love is serine love.

Vs. 5 – is not easily provoked.

Do you know any body like a shot gun with a hair trigger?

Just giggle them and bang,,,,

Then they say I didn’t mean it,

And I got over it quickly,

And all those dead people are lying on the ground.

A vial temper is never something you lose by losing,

Question?

Are you easily provoked?

Quick tempered?

Do you know what that is a sign of?

It means you are not full of love.

That is all is a sign of

8. it is sacrificial love

vs. 5 – thinks no evil

what do we call this sacrificial?

Because the word thineth is a book keeping term

I means you don’t keep a record of faults.

Not a collector of grudges,

It is able to forgive and forget.

And let me tell you that cost.

Why?

Because their can be no forgiveness, without somebody paying a price.

If you owe me ten dollars and I forgive it,

It cost me ten dollars to forgive it.

You see somebody has to pay a price.

But so many of us are bookkeepers.

That is we have in our ledger, little IOU’s

We need to have a funeral, and bury all those things in people’s past, and pay the price.

Take the hurt in.

9 true love is sympathetic love

vs. 6- does not rejoice in iniquity

why do we call it sympathetic love?

when somebody is in sin, when somebody falls,

You don’t rejoice,

You weep

Do you know what the sin of the gossip is?

The gossiper rejoices in iniquity.

When they hear something bad, they can’t wait to tell it.

Like the woman who said,

My motto is, “never say anything unless it is good, and boy is this good.

She is ready to tell it,

Or he,

Why do we only think gossips are just women,

Some of the worse gossips I know are men.

Now, this doesn’t mean you just over look sin, you can’t do that

Sin has to be faced, and dealt with,