Date: 23.03.2021
Topic: AGAPE LOVE
Biblical Text: “ Charity suffereth long and is kind, charity envieth not, charity vauneth not itself, is not puffed up”. [1 Corinthians 13:4]
There are four basic types of love; eros based on romantic love; storge based on familiarity or affection; philia based on friendship love and agape love based on God kind of love. Agape love can be defined as charity which represents God’s love to man, man’s love to God or man’s love to his fellow-men. Agape love is unconcerned with self and concerned with the greatest good of another. It is not borne just out of emotions, feelings, familiarity or attraction but from the will and as a choice. Agape requires faithfulness, commitment and sacrifices without expecting anything in return. It is the highest form of love. Agape love is love that comes from God. While we are yet sinners, Christ shewed his Agape love by dying for us. Agape love is an unconditional love, it is without sentiment. God expects us to love Him and others with agape love. The greatest commandments instruct us to ‘Agapao’ God and our neighbors. We cannot love our friends unconditionally and be unconcerned about their salvation. You claim to love your neighbors but while you are coasting to heaven, they are coasting to hell and you do not care; this cannot be love. When you see loved ones on the road to hell, do you weep and cry to God to change them? Because of the ‘agapao’ love you have for them. When you love God with ‘agapao’ love, you can spend hours in His presence and feel no boredom. You do not feel bored in the presence of someone you genuinely love. Let us love unconditionally with no ‘strings attached’.
KNOW IT ∞ The God kind of love is agape love.
READ IT ∞ John 15:13, 13:35, 1 John 4:8
PRAY IT ∞ Father, give me the grace to obey the greatest commandments by loving unconditionally.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR ∞ Job 28-31
© Pastor Tunde Richards & Pastor Oluwafemi Adebayo
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