Love Is (part two)

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, Laguna Beach. Welcomethe Stairway to Heaven. My name is
Don Schortino, pastor of Laguna BeachNetworks, and each week we look out
a song lyric or two recognize theselines of heart cries or prayers that are
common to humanity. They when Icall themes of the heart concerning our journey
here on earth. Life's a journeythat invites and demands us to financers beyond

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ourselves, giving us the love andhelp we need so we can live and
love as God intended. And mydesires to give us some help and hope
connecting our heart cries with Heaven.Today I want to continue our series called
Love Is. We started it lastweek in the way of a little summary
what we went over last week.The Bible says the greatest is love.

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Love is our greatest desire and need, our greatest heart cry. Love is
our primary pursuit on our journey oflife. The greatest discoveries of our journey
of life is to be loved andto be loved to others. This is
both being loved by God and beingloved by others. In response to being

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loved, well, we get toknow what love is and also what it's
not. And so I want toplay this theme song for this series.
I want to know what love is. It's a great song, classic song
by Foreigner. Here's some of thelyric. I gotta take a little time,
a little time to think things over. I better read between the lines

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in case I need it when I'molder. Now, this mountain I must
climb feels like the world upon myshoulders. Through the clouds, I see
love shine. It keeps me warmas life grows colder. In my life,
there's been heartache and pain. Idon't know if I could face it
again. Can't stop now, traveledso far to change this lonely life.

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I want to know what love is. I want you to show me.
I want to feel what love is. No you can show me. So
let's enjoy this song together. I'vegot to take a little time, a

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little time to think things over.Better read between the lines in case I
needed when I'm molder. This mountainI must climb feels like a world a

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po through the clouds, I seelotion and keep flue woves life through his
cool blue in mind. There's beenheartaching, pain. I don't know if

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I can face it again. Ican't now have traveled so far to change
a love. I want to knowwhat I want you to show me.

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I want to give a lovely Iknow you can't shove me. I want

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to take a little time, alittle time look around I've gotten now.
It looks like love's filiphone me.In my life, there's been heartachmpaign.

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I don't know if I can faceit again. I can't stop now,
I've traveled so far. L Iwant to know w I want you show.

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I want to do with love.I thought you get shoe. I
wonder shoe. How would you can'tshow me shoe? I'm so much You

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know the song is great. Theshows that life's a journey. All kinds
of seasons, hard day can pain, times of loneliness remind us that we
need this relational connection. The journeyhelps us connect with the strong heart,
cry for love, to know it, to feel it. You know,
the song says, I want youto show me is both the horizontal and

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a vertical cry a prayer and seewe need help outside, help from God
and from others to show us whatlove is. You know, when we
come into and we're born, youknow we are hoping that people are gonna
love us well. Babies are tobe loved well. Children are to be
loved well, and to degree we'reloved well. We have a reference for

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what love is, and we're securedby that love. We grow inside and
who we are is a reality ofthat love that hopefully we God, you
see so the heart cry for loveis our deepest and greatest desire as humans.
The journey of life is all aboutout to many discoveries of love,

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learning what real love is and alsowhat bad love is. Our journey of
life is to be a classroom tolearn about love, to discover and grow
from the love that's ours, tolearn to love others well. Our relationships
are meant to be gifts and ongoingopportunities to give the gift of love to

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others. The God of Love hasmade us to know his love. This
is the unfailing and the perfect lovethat our hearts really crave. And when
we receive God's love, our heartsare met with this higher love, which
gives us a new reference and anew resource of what love is. I

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want to say that again, whenwe receive God's love, the higher love,
the greater love, a heartsubmit,and this love gives us a new
reference and a resource of what loveis. So to be loved by God
enables us to be love to othersand to receive love from others. You

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know, our earthly relationships become newand fresh from receiving and releasing God's love
and the good love of others.Lives are changed from being loved well and
loving others well. So it's awhole lifestyle of receiving love from God,
giving that love to others, receivingthat love from others, and just it

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goes on and on and on,and as we are about love, our
lives are changed and we have agreat opportunity to make a difference. The
greatest influence will be here on earthis about love when we were able to
love others well, not just peoplewho are easy to love or people who

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we like to love, but tobe able to love the people that come
into our path every day. Youknow, our lives are changed from being
loved well, I want to saythat again, and loving others as well.
Our city has changed as we learnto love our neighbors. And I
can't emphasize the importance of being aboutlove Jesus was about love, and it

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says he lived a life of love. You know, So some verses I
want to bring to our attention fromthe Bible, which says about love.
It says, love the Lord yourGod, with all your heart, with
all your soul, with all yourmind, with all your strength. The
second is this, love your neighboras yourself. There's no greater commandment than

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these. And then it says inProverbs what a person desires is unfailing love.
And it says in Proverbs again manyclaim to have unfailing love, but
a faithful person who could find ApostlePaul said this the greatest is love.
And he said this again too,serve one another humbly and love, for

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the entire law is fulfilled in keepingthis one command. Love your neighbor as
yourself. And it says this too, may the Lord make your love increase
and overflow for each other, foreveryone you meet. Such a beautiful,
beautiful verses. And so here's somequotes from others about love. There is

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only one happiness in this life,to love and be loved. Another one
is this. Your task is notto seek for love, but merely to
seek and find all the barriers withinyourself that you have built up against it.
One other is this love is ofall passions the strongest, for an

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attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. I like that.
And this one from Vincent van Gogh. He says, love many things,
for therein lies the true strength,and whoever loves much performs much and
can accomplish much. And what isdone in love is done well. I

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want to say that again. That'sso beautiful, Vincent BEng Love many things,
for therein lies the true strength,and whoever loves much performs much and
can accomplish much. And what isdone in love is done well. And
here's one that I always say.We hunger for what we are made for,
and that is love. And sothis whole thing of being about love,

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receiving love from God, receiving lovefrom others, then giving that love
out is just the lifestyle that isGod's best for us. And when we
are about that love, when we'rein the river of love, if you're
will receiving it and giving it away, it takes us in our journey of
life into the best places that Godhas for us, and the best influence

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and the most fruit The most freedomthat we could have is about being loved.
So we're going to continue on thisseries. But here's a great great
song by Joe Cocker, up wherewe Belong, and it says this some
of the lyrics some hang on toused to be live their lives looking behind.

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All we have is here, andnow all our lives out there to
find. The road is long.There are many mountains in our way,
but we climb a step every day. Love lifts us up where we belong.
It's such a beautiful song, Lovelift us up where we belong.
Enjoy it tomorrow, rain, Youknow who is the way? It's really

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it is long. The mountains inour home way will become a step every
day. The lifts are where weblow, where theys crying on my mind.

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Heights are wheary belong. I fromthe world below, where the clear
wind is blown. So hang on, jee fee, live the line,

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looking behind all we have. Heski a dude of the room. Yes,

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long the mountains and I will return. I understand every day love little
does a welly long, welly cryon a mind in the litten is uwelly

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to all I blow the world?We know where the clue and blow.
Time goes by. No time tocry n you in out love day.

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It does a weary long where theythose crying on a mind hill does I'm
weary the long blow the wild?We know where the don win blow because

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I'm weary long where the those cry. I hope this was helpful and it
just reminds us of the priority pursuitsof life and really that is to be
about love. So it's great totalk with you today and want to personally

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be available to offer friendship and helpanyone who needs some. Fear free to
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relevant to our city and beyond.Look forward to talking with you next
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