Song of Songs: Love, Sex, Dating, Marriage | Love is...

Part 1 of our Song of Songs sermon series begins this week.  You can follow along with the sermon notes below...

Sermon Series: Song of Songs:  

Love, Sex, Dating, Marriage

Sermon: Love is...

“...but the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:13

What we believe about love can often be dictated by our environment.

Two things we will choose between:

• World defined love

• God defined love

Love Devine:

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept! Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions? If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds' tents. I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.”

The Song of Solomon 1:2-10

The passage was from God (Passion in Love) and of God (Divinely Given)

David Platt says it like this: “Love Poetry Divine”

Love Defined:

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 

LOVE IS:

• Patient

• Kind

• Rejoices with Truth

• Bears, Believes, Hopes, Endures

LOVE IS NOT:

• Envy 

• Arrogant

• Rude

• Rejoices in Wrong-doing 

The greatest of all is LOVE

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:13 

Freedom is found in the ultimate display of Love // Jesus Christ

Isaiah 53:5 // We have freedom through sacrifice

Love - Action on display, sacrifice of self.