Title: Don't Be Scared of the Word Love Meta: Don't be scared of the word love and overreact to the abuse that its meaning has taken in our generation. The last thing we want to do is dull down its true meaning to be something different than what the Bible emphasizes it to be. Tags: love,satan,deceit,Bible,balance 1 00:00:00,539 --> 00:00:02,380 What Satan has done down through Church history, 2 00:00:02,380 --> 00:00:04,660 repeatedly, 3 00:00:04,660 --> 00:00:07,200 is he drives one group to an extreme 4 00:00:07,210 --> 00:00:09,320 and then we react in abhorrence 5 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:10,370 and go to the opposite extreme, 6 00:00:10,370 --> 00:00:14,340 and he wins in both groups. 7 00:00:14,340 --> 00:00:16,940 So what we've got in our day is the word "love" 8 00:00:16,940 --> 00:00:18,950 has been turned into mush, 9 00:00:18,950 --> 00:00:20,600 so we're going to react 10 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,770 and get scared of the word "love" in Scripture, 11 00:00:22,770 --> 00:00:25,770 and not talk about love. 12 00:00:25,770 --> 00:00:28,690 You see how he's won? 13 00:00:28,690 --> 00:00:31,369 I didn't take time to do it, 14 00:00:31,369 --> 00:00:33,000 but I could go through the New Testament 15 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,480 and give you one passage after another 16 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:38,370 where love is central. 17 00:00:38,370 --> 00:00:39,060 Paul says, 18 00:00:39,060 --> 00:00:42,680 "Owe no man anything but to love one another." 19 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:43,780 You get to Timothy, he says, 20 00:00:43,780 --> 00:00:46,829 "the goal of our instruction..." 21 00:00:46,829 --> 00:00:48,260 What's the purpose? 22 00:00:48,260 --> 00:00:51,080 Why are men standing up here? 23 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:52,080 Week by week. 24 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,590 What's the goal of our instruction? 25 00:00:54,590 --> 00:01:00,480 Well, so you could learn what the tenth toe of Daniel's image represents in prophecy? 26 00:01:00,540 --> 00:01:02,140 No. 27 00:01:02,140 --> 00:01:07,120 "The goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, 28 00:01:07,130 --> 00:01:09,580 a good conscience, a sincere faith." 29 00:01:09,580 --> 00:01:13,810 He says, "If I could get you to have that, 30 00:01:13,810 --> 00:01:16,320 that's the highest thing imaginable."