Invincible Love

Invincible Love

Financial advisor Dave Ramsey often asks, “Why would you take financial advice from a poor person?” We can all see the wisdom in that question. My question to you today is, “Why would you take relationship advice from Hollywood?” Think about it, most of what we learn regarding romance and relationships comes from a media that is bankrupt on the subject. We sing love songs written and sung by artists who go from relationship to relationship. We watch movies written and produced in Hollywood. Can you name a Hollywood couple that are in their first marriage and who have grown old together? That’s like trying to find a smile on Wall Street these days. Yet, we continually buy the lies and ridiculous philosophies of Snoop Dog and Jennifer Aniston.
The problem with these relationship philosophies is that LOVE is based on the following principles:
1) Find someone you want to complete you and make you happy,
2) Put on your best sales pitch,
3) Enter into a contract that says, “I’ll give as long as you are meeting my needs but when you fail to do so, I am no longer under obligation,”
4) When that relationship inevitably fails, repeat steps one through three.

This “love” is sure to fail. In its wake, it leaves pain, poverty, broken homes, and broken lives.
However, there is a “love” that never fails. It is not taught by Hollywood, but by the One who proved His love for us by dying in our place. Paul describes this “unfailing love” in 1 Corinthians 13.
This is a love unlike the world’s love. It is a love that will die to self, not die for self. This passage tells us that love becomes invincible when it is willing to die to the demands of having an uninterrupted life. It becomes invincible when it is willing to die to pride and the need to have all the attention. Love becomes invincible when it is willing to die to self-seeking and instead seeks what others want and need. This is precisely what Christ did. He laid aside His comfort, His glory and ultimately His will for the will of His Father. Amazingly, when He was willing to die for love, his love became invincible. We too can experience this type of love.
This love is not a contractual love that says, “I will give as long as I get.” Rather, it is a covenantal love that says, “I will give without condition and without fail.” It is a love that adopts new principles such as:

Find your completeness and happiness in Christ,
Allow God to lead you to that person who is also in a right relationship with Christ an with whom you want to give your life in order to serve,
Enter into a covenant that says, “I will lay aside my desires for a carefree, self-focused, self-seeking life in order to serve you and love you without condition and without fail. I will not base my love on feelings but on a commitment.”
If the relationship suffers, repeat step one only.

This love will never fail. This is true love. It is neither FOUND nor FALLEN into. It is a commitment built upon the rubble of pride and self. When we are willing to die to self, then our love becomes invincible.


Hear the sermon at glasgowcpchurch.com