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  TRUE LOVE
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: The sermon highlights the distortion of the concept of love in
modern society and the loss of its divine meaning.

Topics: "Divine Love", "True Love"
Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 13:4

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DESCRIPTION
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A.W. Tozer emphasizes the purity and beauty of true love, contrasting it
with the distorted perceptions of love prevalent in modern society. He
laments how love has been misrepresented and degraded by various
cultural influences, leading to a loss of its divine meaning. Tozer
argues that this degradation has resulted in a shallow understanding of
love, reducing it to something unworthy of respect. He calls for a
return to the true essence of love, which reflects its divine origin and
purpose.

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CONTENT
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Among the innocent victims of this effete and degenerate age, there is
none so pure and so beautiful as love.

Next to the word God with its various forms, there is no word so fair in
all the language. Yet it may be said without qualification that this
beautiful word has so suffered in the house of its friends as now to be
scarcely recognizable. For the great mass of mankind, love has lost its
divine meaning. The novelist, the playwright, the psychoanalyst, the
writer of popular love songs, have abused this fair being too long.

For filthy lucre, they have dragged her through the sewers of the human
mind until she appears to the world as no more than a blowzy and bloated
strumpet for whom no one any longer has the least trace of respect, the
mention of whose name brings no more than a wink or an embarrassed
simper. By losing the divine content from the concept of love, modern
man now has remaining only what we might expect--a brazen-faced dowd
whom he courts at all hours of the day and night with songs that should
make a chimpanzee blush.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/true-love/
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