Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

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

In today's episode, we're going to listen to a sermon from the archives, as Paul teaches

from 1 John 4.

In it, Paul reveals where the battle for love is being fought and how victory can be won.

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Here's Paul with an invitation to love.

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 in.

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

Well, one of my daughter-in-law's woke up and decided

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