Hey, my friends, my friends, it's Matt.

This is the 10-minute Bible hour.

And we just got to get down to business here.

I keep thinking and more things that I want to talk about about love.

And I don't want to make us grumpy because we talk about love too much.

That would be disappointing and kind of self-defeating.

But at the same time, can you blame me

right? It's a good topic. This is fun. I mean, for crying out loud, we took all that time going

through all the sin lists of the Bible. I think it's cool that we've taken easily double that

amount of time talking about love stuff all over the Bible. I'm having a blast and I've got more.

We've surveyed the stuff that Paul says about love. We've surveyed the stuff that Luke records Jesus saying about love

in the gospel of Luke. And then yesterday we recorded what Luke says about how Christians in the

early church obeyed Jesus' command to love one another and how that did

exactly what Jesus prayed that it would do and said that it would do. It just solidifies and

undergirds the whole message of Jesus and the gospel and everything in the minds of outsiders

as they see that love playing out among Christians. We've talked about how Matthew and Mark recorded Jesus

talking about love and kind of practical definitional ways, but also in going way beyond the

expectations that anybody would have in terms of how self-sacrificial love is. And then we looked

at John and the Gospel of John talking about kind of three different levels or focuses on what love is. And then we looked at John and the gospel of John talking about kind of three different

levels or focuses on what love is. You know, first, if you want to know what love is, the best

example is God. Look at what he does. Take your cues from him. Further, love is commanded.

You got to do it. Jesus commands this. It's not like this is something we hope for or aspire

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