LOVE The Greatest Power Ever Known

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Scripture-rich book explores what Pastor Alfred Cherubim describes as five vital truths about love: God loves unconditionally; He commands us to love; we are unable in our own strength to love as God loves; we can receive empowerment from God to enable us to love supernaturally; and we are able to access that love through faith in the Savior Jesus Christ. The author maintains that each person's </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)>greatest need is to love and be loved and he </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>unwraps for the reader the distinctions in three Greek words translated into the one English word love. Cited are: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)>eros</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)> sensual desire; </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)>phileo </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)>love for an individual deemed worthy of love; and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)>agape</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>God's love the purest deepest love expressed not merely through emotions but through an act of one's will. The author then centers the book around the Bible's love chapter 1 Corinthians 13 and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>agape</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)>supernatural unconditional love supremely revealed through Jesus's death on the cross for our sins. This love the author asserts is the love the Lord wants to produce in us and through us to others by His Holy Spirit. This </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(58 58 58 1)>agape </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>love is given he contends because of the character of the person loving rather than because of the worthiness of the object of that love. Sometimes it is love in spite of rather than because of. Pastor Alfred argues that individuals can only be moved to live in and share </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>agape</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> love when in relationship with the living God Jesus Christ. He illustrates the nature of this love through stories drawn from the Bible {The Parable of the Prodigal Son) and from his own personal experience: a hospitalized child reenergized for life through the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>agape</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> love of a teacher a man filled with hatred toward everything and everyone who was transformed by agape love.</span></p><p><br></p>