Three Levels of Love

Passage: Deut. 6:4-8
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Three levels of love

 

Deut 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:

5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

  3  Levels of Love 

Eros refers to physical love.

Philos means warm affection or friendship.

Agapē is the sacrificial, unconditional love of God.

 

Eros  -  This level of love is more of a physical form of love.

Eph. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

I Cor. 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Philos  -  This level of love is the one that we ought to have toward friends, family and pretty much toward everyone else

It’s the love that Jonathan has for David. 1 Samuel 18:3

Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Agape  -  It is the unconditional love that The Father (God) has for us. There is nothing we can do to change how The Father feels about us

Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

 

I John 4:9-10  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

 

Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

 

Matt. 2:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

 

Conclusion:

Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Heb 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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