Grand Prix Ridgecrest 2017 LOVE
So glad to be back to racing and getting on with this year. How was your summer, did you ride at all? I tried to race moto but I ended up tearing my calf in July and was out for 6 weeks. But I healed well and I am already racing and loving life! Speaking about love, that is what we are going to be talking about tonight. When you hear the word love, how does it make you feel? Do you get nervous? Do you get jealous? Or do you think about someone special. Love means something different to all of us but the great thing is that its supposed to do. There are many different types of love and tonight we are going to talk about them.
Storge—empathy bond[edit]
Storge Love, is liking someone through the fondness of familiarity, family members or people who relate in familiar ways that have otherwise found themselves bonded by chance. An example is the natural love and affection of a parent for their child. It is described as the most natural, emotive, and widely diffused of loves: natural in that it is present without coercion; emotive because it is the result of fondness due to familiarity; and most widely diffused because it pays the least attention to those characteristics deemed "valuable" or worthy of love and, as a result, is able to transcend most discriminating factors.
1 John 4:7
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
I love my family, I love my kids and I am grateful for the love that I have for my family. Its real, it gives my life more meaning. Its there to guide me and protect me and give me strength.
Philia—friend bond[edit]
Philia is the love between friends as close as siblings in strength and duration. The friendship is the strong bond existing between people who share common values, interests or activities.[11]
True friendships, like the friendship between David and Jonathan in the Bible, are almost a lost art.
1Samuel 18:1
David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life.
CS Lewis says "to the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it".
We struggle with friends. Even I sometimes have no one to talk to in person. Our lives and our friends are on line. Or in our phone. We spend more time liking our Facebook posts than talking on the phone to a real person. I am just as guilty as any one. I think one of the reasons that I love racing, is it gets me out in the real world. It gets me away from the digital world and into the real one.
In order to build lasting friendships we have to spend time with real people having real conversations. That’s how we develop brotherly love.
Eros—physical Love
Eros Is love in the sense of "being in love" or "loving" someone. It’s the distinction between "wanting a woman" and wanting one particular woman--
Eros love can turn the need for pleasure into a tendency for self-destructive behavior. People, who fully submit themselves to it, create a justification for selfishness. But it does not have to be this way. God has made a provision for Eros love through marriage.
Proverbs 5:18-19
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love
Most of the relationships you see on TV are based on Euros love. We have so perverted the whole concept of love that its hard for any of us to have normal relationships. We have made it so men and woman struggle to be friends, because God forbid we have a best friend of the opposite sex that is just a friend that we have Storge or Phila love for. If you really think and ponder this it explains a lot of our issues we have today with relationships, do not be confused, you can love someone dearly and never ever have a physical relationship. Our mind and our soul long for these deep relationships and we confuse that with sex, that is not Gods plan.
Hebrews 10:23-25
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another —and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
My first marriage was based on Euros love. I was in a relationship for 10 years that had very little in common except for physical love. We were not friends and we had very little in common. I was a sailor and so away from home a lot and she just need that kind of love in her life. I was so messed up from that relationship that I did not date or really have any women friends for years until I was talked into a blind date with Jeanne. She made sure that I was good with being her friend before we were ever involved romantically. It took me years to realize that being a friend was just as, or more important to a marriage than anything. I know have lots of friends that are woman and I think that if it was not for the confidence that my wife gave me, I would still struggle with normal relationships. God wants us to develop that kind of bond with each other. True friendship, the kind that produces Sacrificial love is the only way that we can understand Gods love.
John 13:34-35
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
So here we are, right where we need to understand Gods love.
Our walk with him and our ability to love others is based upon his love for us. But its hard to understand this kind of love
Agape—unconditional "God" love
Charity is the love that exists regardless of changing circumstances. Recognize this one as the greatest of the four loves, and know it as a specifically Christian virtue to achieve. Nothing compares to the love of God, who is full of charitable love. We struggle to love people that have hurt us, and yet we hurt God everyday, and yet he loves us
Nehemiah 9:32-34
Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today. In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully God, while we acted wickedly.
He never gives up on us, he never lets us go. He continually seeks us and tries to remind us of his grace and mercy. He shows his love in so many ways
2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All God’s people here send their greetings.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
In closing I want to share with you a powerful quote by
CS Lewis. Love
There is no safe investment. To love at all, is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.
So glad to be back to racing and getting on with this year. How was your summer, did you ride at all? I tried to race moto but I ended up tearing my calf in July and was out for 6 weeks. But I healed well and I am already racing and loving life! Speaking about love, that is what we are going to be talking about tonight. When you hear the word love, how does it make you feel? Do you get nervous? Do you get jealous? Or do you think about someone special. Love means something different to all of us but the great thing is that its supposed to do. There are many different types of love and tonight we are going to talk about them.
Storge—empathy bond[edit]
Storge Love, is liking someone through the fondness of familiarity, family members or people who relate in familiar ways that have otherwise found themselves bonded by chance. An example is the natural love and affection of a parent for their child. It is described as the most natural, emotive, and widely diffused of loves: natural in that it is present without coercion; emotive because it is the result of fondness due to familiarity; and most widely diffused because it pays the least attention to those characteristics deemed "valuable" or worthy of love and, as a result, is able to transcend most discriminating factors.
1 John 4:7
My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
I love my family, I love my kids and I am grateful for the love that I have for my family. Its real, it gives my life more meaning. Its there to guide me and protect me and give me strength.
Philia—friend bond[edit]
Philia is the love between friends as close as siblings in strength and duration. The friendship is the strong bond existing between people who share common values, interests or activities.[11]
True friendships, like the friendship between David and Jonathan in the Bible, are almost a lost art.
1Samuel 18:1
David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life.
CS Lewis says "to the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it".
We struggle with friends. Even I sometimes have no one to talk to in person. Our lives and our friends are on line. Or in our phone. We spend more time liking our Facebook posts than talking on the phone to a real person. I am just as guilty as any one. I think one of the reasons that I love racing, is it gets me out in the real world. It gets me away from the digital world and into the real one.
In order to build lasting friendships we have to spend time with real people having real conversations. That’s how we develop brotherly love.
Eros—physical Love
Eros Is love in the sense of "being in love" or "loving" someone. It’s the distinction between "wanting a woman" and wanting one particular woman--
Eros love can turn the need for pleasure into a tendency for self-destructive behavior. People, who fully submit themselves to it, create a justification for selfishness. But it does not have to be this way. God has made a provision for Eros love through marriage.
Proverbs 5:18-19
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love
Most of the relationships you see on TV are based on Euros love. We have so perverted the whole concept of love that its hard for any of us to have normal relationships. We have made it so men and woman struggle to be friends, because God forbid we have a best friend of the opposite sex that is just a friend that we have Storge or Phila love for. If you really think and ponder this it explains a lot of our issues we have today with relationships, do not be confused, you can love someone dearly and never ever have a physical relationship. Our mind and our soul long for these deep relationships and we confuse that with sex, that is not Gods plan.
Hebrews 10:23-25
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another —and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
My first marriage was based on Euros love. I was in a relationship for 10 years that had very little in common except for physical love. We were not friends and we had very little in common. I was a sailor and so away from home a lot and she just need that kind of love in her life. I was so messed up from that relationship that I did not date or really have any women friends for years until I was talked into a blind date with Jeanne. She made sure that I was good with being her friend before we were ever involved romantically. It took me years to realize that being a friend was just as, or more important to a marriage than anything. I know have lots of friends that are woman and I think that if it was not for the confidence that my wife gave me, I would still struggle with normal relationships. God wants us to develop that kind of bond with each other. True friendship, the kind that produces Sacrificial love is the only way that we can understand Gods love.
John 13:34-35
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
So here we are, right where we need to understand Gods love.
Our walk with him and our ability to love others is based upon his love for us. But its hard to understand this kind of love
Agape—unconditional "God" love
Charity is the love that exists regardless of changing circumstances. Recognize this one as the greatest of the four loves, and know it as a specifically Christian virtue to achieve. Nothing compares to the love of God, who is full of charitable love. We struggle to love people that have hurt us, and yet we hurt God everyday, and yet he loves us
Nehemiah 9:32-34
Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today. In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully God, while we acted wickedly.
He never gives up on us, he never lets us go. He continually seeks us and tries to remind us of his grace and mercy. He shows his love in so many ways
2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All God’s people here send their greetings.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
In closing I want to share with you a powerful quote by
CS Lewis. Love
There is no safe investment. To love at all, is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.
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