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COMPASSIONATE LOVE IS THE SYMBOL OF THE KINGDOM. Love is a Healing Medicine. It is Life Giving. UNCONDITIONAL, PERSONAL AND THE STATE YOU ARE. Agape: Unconditional, personal State that you are 2. Storage: Mercy (Love that shares the same love)
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Love is a Healing Medicine It is Life Giving
Agape: Unconditional, personal State that you are 2. Storage: Mercy (Love that shares the same love) 3. Philia: Love of Friendship ( Jesus and Apostles love) 4. Eros: Love between man and woman which is neither palnned nor willed, but somehow imposes itself upon human beings
Eros • Greeks considered eros principally as a kind of intoxification, the overpowering of reason by a “divine madness’ which tears man away fron his finite existence and enables him, in the very process of being overwhelmed by Divine power, top experience supreme happiness.
Eros (conti….) • Omnia Vincit amor says, Vigil in the Bucolics ie. Love conquers all. • “Etnos cedamus amori” let us too yield love. • Religions fertility cults: Hinduism, Tantrisma, Regenish…. • Sacred prostitution in many temples as fellowship with divine.
I Jn. 3: 14 -17 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another whoever does not love abides in death. Hates murderer. Murderers have no eternal life. Christ laid down his life, so we ought to love one another.
Phil 2:6 God loves you not because you are good. But He is good. Allow yourselves to be loved by him.
Vincent De Paul and the slave • European Girl and Mother Theresa • 1 Jn 4:7-9, God is Love Experience this love and share it with others. eg. Nicky cruz of US and David Wilkerson Evangelists
Life giving love: • eg. Armenian Earth Quake, Mother and Child….blood of the thumb of the mother • ‘Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for child of her womb?’ • Is. 49: 15-16 ‘Your name is inscribed on my palm…..’
God’s Love should be developed by: • Faith • Prayer • Surrender Leads to mutual love and they are manifested in.
Charitable work, duty bound action and self less service (eg. Mother Theresa) ‘Small things are done in great Love bring Joy, Peace.’ Jn. 13:35 ‘Every one will know that you are my disciples’ (eg. Brahmin Leper) Jn. 15:12-13 ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you, none has greater love than this, to lay down one’s own life for ones friends’ Lament. 3:22-26 ‘The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness’.
God speaks to you • 1. you are Good: You are created in God’s image.