What is Love?

 What is Love?Adairsville – February 12, 2022 Google definition of love: an intense feeling of deep affection."she is madly in love with him” a great interest and pleasure in something."his love for football" 57% of Millennials ( 26-41 ) have never been married compared with 17% of members of the Silent Generation when they were the same age.48% of American adults are married — down from 72% in 1960.1 Corinthians 13 -  tells us Love is very different than what google tells us.  John 15:13 – There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.…The highest form of love “no greater love can anyone have than laying down their life – their desires, passions, career, talents, and needs – all to help enrich someone else’s life?  The Prince: which one?  It is believed that David was anointed to be king around the age of 14 or so. He would not actually become king until he was 30 years old. The anointing of David by Samuel was done in secret and for years it was unknown to pretty much everyone.  But slowly and gradually, whispers started to swell into open conversations. Jonathan, King Saul’s eldest son and true heir to the throne as Prince of Israel, was about 27 when he met David. This first meeting would likely have been on the edge of the Valley of Elah – where Goliath was taunting Israel for those 40 days. David, probably 17 at the time, was the boy who said he would fight Goliath.  David has just killed Goliath and the army of Israel has begun to chase the Philistines away.  1 Samuel 17:57-58 1 Samuel 18: 1 – 4  1 Samuel 19:1-2 and 5-10 – a Friend defends a friend – lays down their life for their friend 1 Samuel 23:14 –18 2 Samuel 1:25-26 On the record of those who through self-denial have entered into the fellowship of Christ's sufferings, stand—one in the Old Testament and one in the New—the names of Jonathan and of John the Baptist. -Education 156Jonathan, by birth heir to the throne, yet knowing himself set aside by the divine decree; to his rival the most tender and faithful of friends, shielding David's life at the peril of his own; steadfast at his father's side through the dark days of his declining power, and at his side falling at the last—the name of Jonathan is treasured in heaven, and it stands on earth a witness to the existence and the power of unselfish love. – Education 157 2 Samuel 9 – David shows kindness to Jonathan’s son John 15:13 - There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 
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