Title: Love changes people (Genesis 29:10-20)
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Jacob is a deceiver, a liar, a greedy man, and a thief. It is very easy to prove this. Anyone who has read Genesis knows this. But Jacob changed. Akab has changed. Who changed you because you were scolded? no. People don't change because they scold. On the contrary, if you scold it, you can become even tougher. So what made him change so much? It was because of love. When I found a loved one, things started to change. When you love, your character and destiny change. And the quality of change is determined by what and whom you love.
As we saw in verse 18 of the text we read today, "Jacob loved Rachel more, so he answered, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." And in verse 20, "Jacob loved Rachel. He served Laban seven years, but seven years seemed like a few days because he loved him.” Where was it? After serving for 7 years with Navan, he was deceived, but he said to Kadak, who loved Rachel, "He served Laban another 7 years."
I could change like this because I fell in love with a woman. People don't change well for anything else. But when something to love happens, a person begins to change. If you want to change the way you look, your attitude, your attitude, or the values or mood of your life, you need to find someone you truly love.
True love has the following three attributes.
First, warm interest. To love is to care. We are indifferent to what we do not love. When love is deep, interest is deep, and when love is warm, interest is also warm.
Second, a strong sense of responsibility. To love is to feel a strong sense of responsibility for the loved one. Third, sincere dedication. It is a generous and sincere devotion to the one you love.
1. When you love someone, you change.
Even if you love material things, people change. People change even if they love new hobbies and new environments. But when you love someone, you definitely change.
There is also one-sided love. And there is love for each other. And there is also enemy love. Any love that is morally and religiously possible is beautiful. Loving people is truly a blessing and a beautiful thing. I wish we could love each other if possible, and I wish we could love even our enemies.
Jacob changed by loving a woman named Rachel. Had he not met Rachel, and had not loved a woman like Rachel, he would have been the kind of person who still cheats, steals, steals, and cares less about others, just as he did in his father's house. But because of his love for Rachel, he became a faithful keeper of his promises, learned to be patient, and learned the truth.
If you start to hate people, you will become even worse and fall into a bad person. We must remember that the greatest victim of hatred is ourselves. What happened to Saul when he hated David? I'm back. I went crazy. Satan the devil has taken over him. In the end, everything was lost. Saul is the one who best shows the end of the hateful.
Loving people is the first way to live, the way to liberation, and the way to freedom. It's a path you're good at. You can never live a happy life without hating. I pray in the name of the Lord that you put down everything and everyone you hate at this time.
2. If you love God, you will change.
He said, "I show kindness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments" (Exodus 20:6). If you love God, your blocked life will be cleared.
What changed by Jacob's love for Rachel was a very small change. But when he had the love of God, he experienced more changes. I have never heard that those who love God have not changed. If you truly love God and live, that person will inevitably undergo change.
The apostle Paul was truly a fiery man. And when he did not know and love Christ, he boasted of the world. But when he came to love Christ, the true God in the flesh, he began to change.
He stopped boasting about the world and became a person who knew that the grace given to him was sufficient. And I became a person who knows how to enjoy hardships.
3, I love you, but I hope you can love me to the end.
Jacob loved Rachel to the end. He served Rachel's father Laban for 14 years only to gain Rachel's love. And Jacob loved Rachel until she died.
The Lord has shown us by example of loving to the end.
In John 13:1, Jesus said, “Knowing that the hour had come for him to leave the world and return to the Father before the Passover, he loved his own who were in the world, and loved him to the end.” True love is love until the end. No matter what mistakes, faults, shortcomings, and weaknesses the opponent has, he points out them and does not scold them. Nevertheless, love that accepts you as you are is true love.
If you love until the end, it will change. will change. Even the poor disciples became the greatest apostles because of the love of the disciples who believed and loved them to the end. Jesus loved his disciples to the end. He didn't give up after falling in love, but he loved nonetheless.
World-renowned cardiologist Dr. Dean Ornish said that love is the secret to good health. What we love is that eating low-nutrition junk food can still be healthy. He also said that when we are alone, we are 500% more likely to get sick.
Love ennobles and fervents a person, bears all shame and perseveres. Restoring love is the way, truth, and life for mankind to be saved. It is the Lord's true love that has saved us. What would we have done if the Lord had said that He came as judgment, not love? He would not have been saved.
Saints! I hope you try hard to love. I hope you practice loving. It doesn't just happen. Loving people or loving God requires a lot of tears, a lot of devotion, and a secret devotion. However, I bless you in the name of the Lord that you believe that it is the one who loves, not the one who is loved, who is most benefited and happiest from this work, in other words, the work of love.