Love vs Everything Else

<p>Love versus everything else</p> <p> </p> <ol> <li>The Bible teaches us that God is love.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> Am I right?<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> 1 John 4:16 says:</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p>And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p>However, the adversary of God knows this too.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> So he does the opposite. The Bible says he comes to kill steal and destroy.</p> <ol start="2"> <li>The devil uses the same 3 tricks most of the time and we miss it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> We don’t see it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li> <li>We don’t recognize when we are being used by him to do his work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> It’s either Love or it’s everything else.</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p>We don’t know that “friendship with the world is an enmity with God - James 4:4</p> <p> </p> <p>You can’t be worldly and be Godly.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> You can’t be left and be right.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> You are either hot or cold.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> Lukewarm coffee is nasty.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> So is a lukewarm spirit.</p> <p> </p> <p>God is love.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> We like love.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> I like love.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Growing up I couldn’t wait till I got a girlfriend to love.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> I used to dream about it all the time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Were you like that?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> I was romantic too.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Couldn’t get a girlfriend to save my life.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> I was awkward. I didn’t have any game.<span class="Apple-co