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Doing Family God's Way: God-Like Love & God-Honoring Covenants

The document discusses different types of love and emphasizes the importance of agape love, which is defined as God-like love. It provides 3 key points: 1) Husbands and wives are commanded in the Bible to love each other through agape love. 2) Agape love is more than a feeling - it involves compassion, kindness, humility and other virtues outlined in scripture. 3) Developing agape love requires receiving God's love first and making Jesus the greatest love, as agape love blossoms in those whose love for Jesus is strongest.

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Doing Family God's Way: God-Like Love & God-Honoring Covenants

The document discusses different types of love and emphasizes the importance of agape love, which is defined as God-like love. It provides 3 key points: 1) Husbands and wives are commanded in the Bible to love each other through agape love. 2) Agape love is more than a feeling - it involves compassion, kindness, humility and other virtues outlined in scripture. 3) Developing agape love requires receiving God's love first and making Jesus the greatest love, as agape love blossoms in those whose love for Jesus is strongest.

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Doing Family God’s Way

God-like Love & God-honoring Covenants

Is it love or is it love?

Storge: Family Love

Eros: Romantic Love

Philia: Brotherly Love

Agape: God-like Love

I. A husband is commanded to love his wife. A wife is to learn to love her husband &
children.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh to them. Colossians 3:19

Older woman are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children.
Titus 2:4

II. Agape Love is made of the stuff that holds a family together.

Colossians 3:12-15
 Compassion

 Kindness

 Humility

 Meekness

 Patience

 Forbearance

“God, let me be all he ever dreamed of loveliness and laughter. Veil his eyes a bit because there are so many little flaws, somehow,
God please let him see only the bride I long to be, remembering ever after - I was all he ever dreamed of loveliness and laughter.”
Ruth Bell Graham

 Forgiveness
III. Agape love is more than a feeling.

Let us not love in word and talk but in deed and truth. 1 John 3:18

1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13

IV. Agape Love is a God-honoring, covenant–keeping love.

If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He
shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. Numbers 30:2

Malachi 3:14-16

Agape can lead your heart through the drought to the spring of storge, the river
of eros, and the fountain of philia.

“Do not follow your heart. Lead your heart.” Line from Fireproof

V. Developing the capacity to love like Jesus.

1. Agape love begins in the heart of one who receives God’s love.

But God shows in love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

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

1 John 4:7-12, 15-19

2. Agape love blossoms in the heart of one who loves Jesus most.

1 John 4:17

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more
than me is not worthy of me. Matthew 10:37 (Also see Luke 14:26)

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from
where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. Revelation 2:4-5

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