What the World Needs Now, Part 4

The word ‘love’ is used in so many ways today that it’s true meaning gets diluted. The kind of love the world needs requires perspective, focus, and action—all three of which were embodied perfectly by Jesus. Listen as Pastor Paul shows us that what the world needs now is love, sweet love!

O Come O Come Emmanuel

for King & Country

O Holy Night

Hillsong Worship

Here Comes Heaven

Elevation Worship

Light of the World

Covenant Worship

I Have Decided

Elevation Worship

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What the world needs now is love.

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Fill in the Blank

Love makes the world _____  _____

All is fair in love ­­­_____  ______

What’s love got ___  ___  _____ __

A face only a ________  ________  _________

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1 John 4:8

…God is love.

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Greek Words for Love

Phileo – brotherly love.

Eros – sensual love.

Agape – selfless, Godly love.

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Hebrew Words for Love

Ahavah – to have affection toward someone.

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Shema

To listen, pay attention, respond, obey.

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Deuteronomy 6:4-9

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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Exodus 13:1-10, 11-16 and Deuteronomy 11:13-21

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1 John 4:19

We love because he first loved us.

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Micah 7:18-19

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

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Psalm 136:1

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

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Khesed

Love, generosity, enduring commitment, and the practice of promise keeping loyalty motivated by deep personal care.

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1 John 4:9

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

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John 13:34, 35

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”  

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Perspective. Focus. Action.

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