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    Nothings Gonna ChangeNothings Gonna Change

    My Love for YouMy Love for YouLet Nothing ShakeLet Nothing Shake

    Your Love for GodYour Love for God

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    Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Set me as a seal

    upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine

    arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy

    is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof

    are coals of fire, which hath a most

    vehement flame. Many waters cannot

    quench love, neither can the floodsdrown it.

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    Deut 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD

    thy God with all thine heart, and with all

    thy soul, and with all thy might.

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    Introduction

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    What does it mean to love the Lord?

    Deut 6:5

    And thou shalt love the LORD thy God withall thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with

    all thy might.

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    Love=Hebrew word ahab (aw-hab)

    meaning to have affection for

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    heart =Hebrew word lebab (lay-bawb)

    meaning inner man, mind, will, heart, soul,

    understanding, knowledge, thinking,

    reflection, memory, inclination, resolution,determination, conscience, heart as seat of

    appetites, as seat of emotions and passions,

    as seat of courage

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    soul=Hebrew word nephesh (neh-fesh)

    meaning a breathing creature, vitality, life,

    appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion,

    passion

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    might= Hebrew word me-od (me-hode)

    meaning vehemence, force, abundance,

    exceedingly, greatly, to a great degree, much

    In Tagalog: grabe, to the max, over

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    Why do we love God?

    Because He loved us first

    I Jn 4:19 We love because he first loved us.

    Rom 5:7-8 Very rarely will anyone die for a

    righteous man, though for a good man someone

    might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates

    his own love for us in this: While we were stillsinners, Christ died for us.

    Jer 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past,

    saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting

    love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

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    Because nothing can separate us from His

    love

    Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from thelove of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or

    persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or

    sword?As it is written: "For your sake we face

    death all day long; we are considered as sheep

    to be slaughtered."No, in all these things we aremore than conquerors through him who loved

    us.For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

    neither angels nor demons, neither the present

    nor the future, nor any powers,neither height nordepth, nor anything else in all creation, will be

    able to separate us from the love of God that is in

    Christ Jesus our Lord.

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    How about you? How much debt was

    cancelled in your life by the blood of

    Jesus? How much sin of yours was

    forgiven? Do you love God because youwere forgiven much? Or do you feel you

    deserve to be forgiven and therefore you

    do not need to be grateful to God?

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    How do we love the Lord?

    Set Jesus as a seal upon your heart and your arm.

    Let your love burn as fire, as the most vehement

    flame, the flame of the Lord. Dont let floods andtrials quench your love for God.

    Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Set me as a seal upon thine heart,

    as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death;

    jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals

    of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waterscannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

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    Dont turn your back on your love for God,

    moreso, not because of the ministry or

    doctrine or good works or persecution.

    Rev 2:2-4 I know your deeds, your hard work andyour perseverance. I know that you cannot

    tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those

    who claim to be apostles but are not, and have

    found them false.You have persevered and have

    endured hardships for my name, and have not

    grown weary.Yet I hold this against you: You

    have forsaken your first love.

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    Forsake=Greek word aphiemi (af-ee'-

    ay-mee) meaning to send away, depart,

    divorce, yield up, to expire, to let go, let

    alone, let be, to disregard, to omit,neglect, to give up, keep no longer, to

    leave, to desert wrongfully, to abandon

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    Dont let other people, things, money,

    power, philosophies, turn your heart away

    from the Lord. King Solomon loved many women.

    IKing 11:1-4 King Solomon, however, loved many

    foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter-- Moabites,

    Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.They

    were from nations about which the LORD had told theIsraelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because

    they will surely turn your hearts after their gods."

    Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.He had

    seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred

    concubines, and his wives led him astray.As Solomongrew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods,

    and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his

    God, as the heart of David his father had been.

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    The rich man loved his money.

    Mark 10:17-23

    As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on

    his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I doto inherit eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus

    answered. "No one is good-- except God alone. You know the

    commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not

    steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your

    father and mother.'" "Teacher," he declared, "all these I have keptsince I was a boy."Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing

    you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the

    poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow

    me." At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because

    he had great wealth. esus looked around and said to his disciples,

    "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!"

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    We love God by obeying his commands.

    I Jn 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his

    commands. And his commands are not

    burdensome.

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    We love God by loving other people I Jn 4:20-21 If anyone says, "I love God," yet

    hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone whodoes not love his brother, whom he has seen,cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And hehas given us this command: Whoever loves Godmust also love his brother.

    I Jn 3:16-18 This is how we know what love is:Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And weought to lay down our lives for our brothers. Ifanyone has material possessions and sees hisbrother in need but has no pity on him, how can

    the love of God be in him? Dear children, let usnot love with words or tongue but with actionsand in truth.

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    Luke 6:32, 35 If you love those who love

    you, what credit is that to you? Even

    'sinners' love those who love them. But

    love your enemies, do good to them, andlend to them without expecting to get

    anything back. Then your reward will be

    great, and you will be sons of the MostHigh, because he is kind to the

    ungrateful and wicked.

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    We must not give our spiritual gifts andour knowledge of the word moreimportance than love for other people.

    That is not Gods will. God did not givespiritual gifts so we can lord it over others.

    1 Cor 8:1 Now about food sacrificed toidols: We know that we all possessknowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but lovebuilds up.

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    1 Cor 13:1-13

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but havenot love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging

    cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all

    mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith thatcan move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

    If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my bodyto the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

    Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does notboast, it is not proud.

    It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easilyangered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

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    Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always

    perseveres.

    Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, theywill cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled;where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

    For we know in part and we prophesy in part,but whenperfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

    When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like achild, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, Iput childish ways behind me.

    Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then weshall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall

    know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. Butthe greatest of these is love.

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    ConclusionConclusion

    Deut 11:13-16

    So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today--to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heartand with all your soul--

    then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumnand spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, newwine and oil.

    I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eatand be satisfied.

    Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worshipother gods and bow down to them.

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    ConclusionConclusion Deut 7:7-9

    The LORD did not set his affection on you and chooseyou because you were more numerous than otherpeoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

    But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the

    oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you outwith a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land ofslavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

    Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he isthe faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a

    thousand generations of those who love him and keephis commands.