If you just could drop that little phrase, it would be so convenient.

If it just said, love your neighbor, period.

But the Lord has a way of driving things right into the heart of our being.

Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Today John MacArthur embarks on a study that's sure to challenge you and your relationships with others, especially those

you have a hard time loving. You may never think about your friends or your enemies in quite the

same way again as you follow along with John in this study which he calls

love no matter what. And in case you're wondering it's not an accident that we're

airing this series on biblical love now with Valentine's Day on the horizon.

I'm wondering John if some people might think that what you're going to say over these next two and a half weeks

will sort of take the wind out of everyone's romantic sales so to speak.

Well let's just hope the opposite happens that this will put some real wind in everybody's romantic sales. I think you can only get away with

kind of superficial worldly love for a little while and then it's got to be much deeper and broader and more genuine.

And I think more spiritual than that kind of thing that we call romance.

So we're going to hope that this kind of thing that we call romance.

So we're going to hope that this kind of love is going to enrich every single aspect of the life of all

of those who listen and are a part of our series.

Let me introduce the study that we're going to begin today that I think

will lead in that direction. Its title is Love No Matter What. That's right, Love No Matter What.

It is not designed to minimize romantic love it is designed to build a much

much bigger foundation than just that it will however challenge the listeners thinking about what it means to really love your husband or your wife,

or even a family member, or a church member, or an unbelieving co-worker, even that annoying person, or even your enemy.

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