You choose to love. I choose to love. I choose to make peace. I choose to forgive.

You learn to do that by training your mind to do that under the power of the spirit of God and a commitment to obey. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. Think back to your grammar lessons in school and let's talk for a minute about adjectives. You remember that adjectives are descriptive words and if

there's one overarching adjective that applies to the Christian life it's ongoing

ongoing faith ongoing, ongoing faith, ongoing humility, ongoing prayer, and ongoing love.

Today, John MacArthur takes a look at that ongoing biblical love, showing you how to love no matter what.

That's the name of his current study.

And as the lesson begins, bear in mind this series is not just for married couples it provides guidelines for every

relationship you have and with that here's John MacArthur. Now what is love?

How do you demonstrate love? Is it an emotion? Is it a spiritual goose bump? Is it a warm and fuzzy feeling?

What is love?

Well let me suggest what it is biblically and I'm just going to suggest it briefly.

Love first of all is teaching others the truth of God. That in itself I think is a supremely important element of

love. Paul and 2 Corinthians chapter 6 talks about all the things that he is committed to, all the things

he has done for the Corinthians.

He has come to them, come through all kinds of stripes, imprisonment, tumult, labors, watchings, fastings,

verse five, or six, pureness by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the

Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God,

by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left.

The key thing I want you to see is that he came by knowledge, by the word of truth.

Love is a matter of teaching truth. Love is a matter of articulating truth.

Love is a matter of saying what has to be said from the word of God.

It's Ephesians for where it says speaking the truth in love.

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