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You probably won't find this phrase on a Valentine's Day card, but love is war.

In this final sermon on love, Paul David Tripp reveals where the battle for love is being

fought and how victory can be won. Here's Paul.

Love is a war. You don't often hear love and war together in the same sentence, but love is a war.

It's a war of motivation.

It's a war of contradiction.

It's a war of deception.

It's a war of calling.

Turn, if you would, in your Bibles to 1 John 4, 19 through 21.

I wish I could say that that war no longer rages in my heart, but it does.

If you reflect on this week, you will recognize places where love's war raged in your own heart. We were on a family vacation this past week.

We had rented a home in Ocean City and were so delighted that all of our

children could be with us, my two older sons with their wives, my daughter and Darnay flew in

from Montana. It was a wonderful, wonderful time. One of the things I like to do when my family is around is cook for my

family. I would like to think that that's because I have a servant's heart. It's probably because

I just like to cook. And the final thing that I was going to do was to make cinnamon rolls for

my family for the final breakfast.

We had to leave about 11 o'clock from the house we were renting.

And it's a bit of a family tradition, the cinnamon rolls.

Well, one of my daughter-in-law's woke up and decided she didn't want to start her day with something that sweet and rejected my cinnamon rolls.

I would like to say that that was okay with me, but it wasn't.

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