Living in Love pt.2

1. TO LOVE OTHERS, YOU MUST FIRST EXPERIENCE GOD IN YOUR LIFE.• Love is not just a mystical thing that just magically happens.• Love comes and flows through people.• You cannot love unless love is in you.• Love gets in you when love gets in you.• Salvation is about the inward transformation of your heart.COMPONENTS OF SALVATION.- HONEST ADMISSION of the NEED for God.• You will never know God until you say I need God.- HONESTLY admit your present SPIRITUAL condition.- ACCEPT God's solution/ pathway.• Salvation is a one-way experience.- Begin to GROW in the understanding of your salvation.2. LOVE MUST BE DEMONSTRATED AND PRIORTOZED.• Our knowledge of love must transition from a concept to what is being practiced and prioritized.• Don't just celebrate the love of God. Demonstrate it.HOW TO PRIOTIZE AND PRACTICE LOVE.- Devote TIME to God.• You can't say you love God if you don't give him time.- Devote TIME to people.• You can't say you love people if you don't give time to them.• In today's world, we are highly connected technologically but highly disconnected relationally.• You can be physically present with someone, but relationally absent.• If you don't build loving relationships now, you won't have them when it matters.- Forgive QUICKLY.• Don't choose to forgive whenever you get to it or eventually. Do it quickly!- Apologize PROMPTLY & APPROPRIATELY.• Apology is an indication that you value a relationship more than you being right.- Learn to SPEAK the LOVE LANGUAGE of others.- Learn to practice the other 5 things CONSISTENTLY.• Love is a learned response, so learn how to express and respond in love.