INCREASING AND ABOUNDING IN THE LOVE

Text: I Thessalonians 3:12

Theme: Necessity of Supernatural Love

Title: Increasing and Abounding in The Love

1. Source of Supernatural Love
   1. The Lord God our Father
   2. The Lord Jesus Christ
   3. The Lord the Holy Spirit
2. Subjects of Supernatural Love
   1. You (the Thessalonian Saints)
   2. You (the 21st Century Saints)
3. Activity of Supernatural Love
   1. Increasing
   2. Abounding
4. Objects of Supernatural Love
   1. One Toward Another (Edifying of Saints)
   2. Toward All Men (Evangelizing of Sinners)
5. Example of Supernatural Love
   1. Paul's Boldness in Suffering (2:2)
   2. Paul's Gentleness in Ministry (2:7)
   3. Paul's Laboring and Travail (2:9)
   4. Paul's Godly Behavior (2:10-12)
   5. Paul's Comfort/Joy in Affliction (3:7-9)
   6. Paul's Continual Praying (3:10)
6. Sixteen Perfections of Supernatural Agape Love (I Corinthians 13:4-8)
   1. Love suffers long
   2. Love is kind
   3. Love envies not
   4. Love vaunts not itself
   5. Love is not puffed up
   6. Love does not behave itself unseemly
   7. Love seeks not her own
   8. Love is not easily provoked
   9. Love thinks no evil
   10. Love rejoices not in iniquity
   11. Love rejoices in the truth
   12. Love bears all things
   13. Love believes all things
   14. Love hopes all things
   15. Love endures all things
   16. Love never fails