3 – Faithful Love How To Bring What I Sing

Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs 20:6 (AMPC)

• Too often we ________ ____ better than we __________ ____.

…The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Galatians 5:6b (NIV)

• Valentine’s Day celebrates ________________ of love.

• Hebrews talks about ________________

FAITHFUL LOVE – 5 WAYS TO BRING WHAT I SING:

1. I WILL LOVE WHAT IS __________ & HATE WAS IS ________.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.  Hebrews 1:9 (NIV)

Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones…

Psalm 97:10a (NIV)

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.  Romans 12:9 (NIV)

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  1 Corinthians 13:6 (NIV)

Culture says love means ____________________.

Hebrews says love means ____________________.

2. I WILL SHOW LOVE THROUGH ______________.

God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. ¹¹ We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. ¹² We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. Hebrews 6:10-12 (NIV)

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 (NIV)

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. ¹⁰ Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.  Galatians 6:9-10 (NIV)

Love is not proven by ________ _______ but by __________ _________.

3. I FIGHT FOR LOVE THROUGH __________________.

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, ²⁵ not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV)

“By this everyone will know that y’all are my disciples—that y’all love one another.” John 13:35 (YALL)

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: ¹⁰ If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. ¹¹ Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? ¹² Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.  Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 (NIV)

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.  Hebrews 3:13 (NIV)

4. I WILL GIVE & RECEIVE ____________________ AS LOVE.

And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, ⁶ because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.” Hebrews 12:5-6 (NIV)

Correction is not ___________. Correction is proof of ______________.

My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, ¹² because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. Proverbs 3:11–12 (NIV)

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.  Revelation 3:19 (NIV)

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:11 (NIV)

Valentine’s love says, “_______________________________________.”

Faithful love says, “___________________________________.”

5. I WILL RESERVE MY LOVE FOR ______ __________.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ²⁴“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:19-21, 24 (NIV)

But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. ⁸ But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. ⁹ Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.1 Timothy 6:6-10 (NIV)

The opposite of faithful love is __________________ love.