Love, the perfect gift, permanent virtue, and primary command

I'm really sorry it's been more than a week since I've posted!! Haley's way ahead of me when it comes to posting on here! We should be in the middle of the next subject but I'm just now FINALLY writing on 'love.' Here's my two cents. If that. God bless you!!

Someone that I once heard speaking said “love made the perfect gift, remains the permanent virtue, and became the primary command.” What does that mean?
~Love verb: to cherish
~Love noun: compassion, devotion
~Romans 5:8- But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1. Love made the perfect gift because Christ died even though we were still sinners. God put all of our sins on Christ, and that was the perfect gift.
“And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.”
After that, the song sings “Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee, How great Thou art, how great Thou art.”
Love is a selfless act for someone because you are putting their needs ahead of your own interests.
Finally Love made the perfect gift, because Christ gave us everything. He made the ultimate sacrifice.


2. Love remains the permanent virtue.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:13- But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
The greatest of ANY virtue is love. It is the key mark of a true believer.


3. Love became the primary command.
~ John 13:34-35- “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciple, if you have love for one another.”
~ Micah 6:8- He hat shown thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Love is just, merciful, and humble. If we have love, we are obeying all the commandments found in Micah 6.
~ 1 Peter 4:6 “Above all, love each other deeply. Because love covers a great multitude of sins.”

So now we know what love is. Why do we need it? What is it for?
~ Matthew 25:35-40- “ ‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison and come to You?’ The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’”
If we have the kind of love that God intended, it will show in our lives.