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Psalm 52:1-5 To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of David when Doeg the

Edomite went and told Saul, and said to him, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.'

Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually. (2)

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (3) YOU LOVE EVIL

MORE THAN GOOD, LYING RATHER THAN SPEAKING RIGHTEOUSNESS. SELAH (4)

YOU LOVE ALL DEVOURING WORDS, You deceitful tongue. (5) God shall likewise

destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIRS 1

LOVEA.THE TWO GREATEST COMMANDMENTS INVOLVE

LOVE - Matthew 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. (35) Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, (36) Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? (37) Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' (38) This is the first and great commandment. (39) And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' (40) On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

LOVE

B. LOVE IS THE HIGHEST ATTRIBUTE OF MANKIND. 1 Corinthians 13:13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

C. MISPLACED LOVE CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS

D. SOME OF THE GREATEST TRAGEDIES IN LIFE ARE THE RESULT OF MISPLACED LOVE.

E. THIS MORNING WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT SOME DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIRS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

THE LOVE OF SELF

2 Timothy 3:1-5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: (2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of

money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

(3) unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, (4)

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (5) having

a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

THE LOVE OF MONEY

1 Timothy 6:6-10 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. (7) For we brought

nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. (8) And having food and

clothing, with these we shall be content. (9) But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful

lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. (10) For the love of money is a root of

all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced

themselves through with many sorrows.

THE LOVE OF THE PRAISE OF MEN

Matthew 6:5 And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues

and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I

say to you, they have their reward.

THE LOVE OF DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT

John 3:16-21 (16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in

Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (17) For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be

saved. (18) He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only

begotten Son of God. (19) And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world,

and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (20) For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds

should be exposed. (21) But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen,

that they have been done in God.

THE LOVE FOR THE WORLD

1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves

the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (16) For all that is in the world--the

lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is

of the world. (17) And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he

who does the will of God abides forever.

THE LOVE OF PLEASURE

2 Timothy 3:1-5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: (2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of

money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

(3) unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, (4)

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (5) having

a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

THE LOVE OF FAMILY MORE THAN JESUS

Matthew 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

LOVE IN WORD ONLY

1 John 3:17-18 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? (18) My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in

truth.

THE LOVE OF PREEMINENCE

3 John 9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the

preeminence among them, does not receive us.

THE LOVE OF THIS LIFE

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the

word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

THE LOVE OF LYING

Revelation 22:14-15 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they

may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. (15) But outside are dogs and sorcerers

and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and

practices a lie.

THE LOVE THAT HAS GROWN COLD

Matthew 24:12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow

cold.

DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIRS?

• ARE YOU INVOLVED IN A DANGEROUS LOVE AFFAIR?

• HAS YOUR LOVE FOR GOD GROWN COLD?

TONIGHT’S SERMONBE PERFECT