“Nothing’s Gonna Change

My Love for You”

Let Nothing Shake
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 waters cannot
quench love, neither can the floods
drown it.
• 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.
• Introduction
• What does it mean to love the Lord?
• 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.
– Love=Hebrew word “ahab” (“aw-hab”)
meaning to have affection for
– 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
– soul=Hebrew word “nephesh” (“neh-fesh”)
meaning a breathing creature, vitality, life,
appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion,
passion
– 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
• 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 still
sinners, 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.”
– Because nothing can separate us from His
love
• Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the
love 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 are
more 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 nor
depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God that is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
– Because He forgave us
• Luke 7:36-50
• 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 you
were forgiven much? Or do you feel you
deserve to be forgiven and therefore you
do not need to be grateful to God?
• 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. Don’t let floods and
trials 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 waters
cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
– Don’t 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 and
your 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.
• 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
– Don’t 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 the
Israelites, "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 Solomon
grew 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.
 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 do
to 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 kept
since 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!"
• 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.
• 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 who
does not love his brother, whom he has seen,
cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he
has given us this command: Whoever loves God
must 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 we
ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If
anyone has material possessions and sees his
brother in need but has no pity on him, how can
the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us
not love with words or tongue but with actions
and in truth.
• 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, and
lend to them without expecting to get
anything back. Then your reward will be
great, and you will be sons of the Most
High, because he is kind to the
ungrateful and wicked.
• We must not give our spiritual gifts and
our knowledge of the word more
importance than love for other people.
That is not God’s will. God did not give
spiritual gifts so we can lord it over others.
• 1 Cor 8:1 Now about food sacrificed to
idols: We know that we all possess
knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love
builds up.
• 1 Cor 13:1-13
• If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not 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 that
can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
• If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body
to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
• Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud.
• It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
• 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, they
will 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 when
perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
• When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a
child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I
put childish ways behind me.
• Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we
shall 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. But
the greatest of these is love.
 Conclusion
• 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 heart
and with all your soul--
• then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn
and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new
wine and oil.
• I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat
and be satisfied.
• Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship
other gods and bow down to them.
 Conclusion
• Deut 7:7-9
• The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose
you because you were more numerous than other
peoples, 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 out
with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of
slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is
the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a
thousand generations of those who love him and keep
his commands.