February 2013 ~ Chapter 2 ~ A Season of Love

 What's Love Got to do with it!

The World says 

February 14th is Valentines Day

A Day to Celebrate Love

The Bible Teaches

Love is to be

Celebrated

Every Day

 We should Put on Love Everyday

Colossians 3:14

  But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection

 Love is Everything 

 John 3:16   For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life

John 15:17 this is my command: Love one another. This was Jesus’ Greatest Commandment.

I Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.

Things we are to 

Take/Put off

Colossians 3:8,9

  But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. ⁹ Do not lie to one another

Character of the New Man

^{Colossians 3:12} Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; ¹³ bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. ¹⁴ But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. ¹⁷ And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

To Me

The Christian Home

^{Colossians 3:18}  

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

^{Colossians 3:19}

 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.

^{Colossians 3:20} 

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

Colossians 3:21

 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

^{Colossians 3:22}

  Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. ²³ And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵ But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

 Trust and Obey

For there

Is

No other Way

Father God.. teach us to Love .. how you Loved us.. You sent us your one and only son .. to save us from a life of sin .. to give us eternal life ..  Help us to embrace the Great Commandment .. to Love