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Flourishing Relationships: Virtues in the Face of Vices Pt 1| The Virtue of Love | Pastor Frank Silverii
The Virtue of Love
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Bethel Church of San Jose
1201 S Winchester Blvd, San Jose, CA 95128, USA
Sunday 9:30 AM
Sunday 11:00 AM
Series: Flourishing Relationships: Virtues in the Face of Vices Pt1
Title: “The Virtue of Love”
Text: Genesis 1:26-27; Galatians 5:13-26; selected
Date: May 4, 2025
Title: “The Virtue of Love”
Text: Genesis 1:26-27; Galatians 5:13-26; selected
Date: May 4, 2025
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If I like it, it’s mine. If I can take it away from you, it’s mine. If it looks like mine, it’s mine. If I saw it first, it’s mine. If you’re having fun with it, it’s mine. If you lay it down, it’s mine. If it’s broken, it’s yours.
Genesis 1:26-27 (NIV): Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
BIG IDEA: The key to flourishing relationships is renewing God’s image, His likeness or His virtues in our lives.
If I like it, it’s mine. If I can take it away from you, it’s mine. If it looks like mine, it’s mine. If I saw it first, it’s mine. If you’re having fun with it, it’s mine. If you lay it down, it’s mine. If it’s broken, it’s yours.
Genesis 1:26-27 (NIV): Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
BIG IDEA: The key to flourishing relationships is renewing God’s image, His likeness or His virtues in our lives.
Galatians 5:16, 19-21, 22, 23 (NLT): So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves (sarx). … 19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. … 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Mark 12:29-31 (NIV): “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV): Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. …
Mark 12:29-31 (NIV): “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV): Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. …
GROWING IN GOD’S LOVE
1. _________________ and ________________ God’s love for you.
Question: Are there things that currently occupy space in your life that do not belong there?
Bitterness, Envy, Unresolved Anger, Blame, Lust, Dishonesty, Denial, Deception, Hurts, idolatry, quarreling, jealousy, selfish ambition, division, 21 drunkenness, wild parties … Galatians 5:20-21
1. _________________ and ________________ God’s love for you.
Question: Are there things that currently occupy space in your life that do not belong there?
Bitterness, Envy, Unresolved Anger, Blame, Lust, Dishonesty, Denial, Deception, Hurts, idolatry, quarreling, jealousy, selfish ambition, division, 21 drunkenness, wild parties … Galatians 5:20-21
2. _____________________ my desires to what God desires.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (The Message): Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never dies.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (The Message): Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never dies.
2. _____________________ my desires to what God desires.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (The Message): Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never dies.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (The Message): Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. Love never dies.
GROWING IN GOD’S LOVE
1. _________________ and ________________ God’s love for you.
Question: Are there things that currently occupy space in your life that do not belong there?
Bitterness, Envy, Unresolved Anger, Blame, Lust, Dishonesty, Denial, Deception, Hurts, idolatry, quarreling, jealousy, selfish ambition, division, 21 drunkenness, wild parties … Galatians 5:20-21
1. _________________ and ________________ God’s love for you.
Question: Are there things that currently occupy space in your life that do not belong there?
Bitterness, Envy, Unresolved Anger, Blame, Lust, Dishonesty, Denial, Deception, Hurts, idolatry, quarreling, jealousy, selfish ambition, division, 21 drunkenness, wild parties … Galatians 5:20-21
3. ______________________ give up.
1 Corinthians 13:7 (The Message): Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:7 (The Message): Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.