Love That Lasts
Connection Card
Series: Love
Josh Canizaro
February 8, 2015
Show Message Notes
Love That Lasts
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Memory Verse:
(1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV) “Do everything in love.”
Commitment: Willing to be unhappy until we work it out.
Love That Lasts
(Song of Songs 8:5-6 NIV) Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
1.
Lasting love is possessive.
(Song of Songs 8:7 NIV) Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
2.
Lasting love is persevering.
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Covenant surrenders rights and assumes responsibility.
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Contract protects rights and shirks responsibility.
(1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV) (Love)... keeps no record of wrongs.
(Song of Songs 8:8 NIV) We have a young sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister for the day she is spoken for?
(Song of Songs 8:9 NIV) If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
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Lasting love is protective.
(Song of Songs 8:10 NIV) I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.
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Lasting love is peaceful.
(Song of Songs 8:13-14 NIV) You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
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Love is a choice.
(Colossians 3:14 NIV) And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
