Introduction

Love songs

First Album – “I’m all Out of Love” by Air Supply
Thankfully, grew out of that phase but my love for love songs remained

Layla – Eric Clapton, written about George Harrison’s wife
Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones
Althea by the Grateful Dead

But I think one of my favorite ones is actually quite simple

Marshall Tucker Bands – “Heard it in a Love Song”

Great rhyme, “heard it in a love song…can’t be wrong.”

But love songs aren’t always right, are they?

Not always
Tell us to put everything on the line and it will all work out. Divorcees know that isn’t always the case

Sometimes the best efforts still don’t work out

The truth of the matter is

Love songs can disappoint us, set our expectations high, only to disappoint us, leave us feeling bitter.

The World LIES TO US

John 14:25-27 – “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

The Ways the World Lies to Us

We know this world is jacked up

Wars
Arguments
Leah’s Love Box destroyed

In a way, a metaphor for the lack of love within our society.

Why?

WE’VE BEEN LIED TO.

Friends, we’ve been getting lied to for a long, long time.

Garden of Eden, Genesis 3 – “He [THE SERPENT] said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’

We’ve been bombarded with the message that to love the world, we’ve got to love ourselves FIRST which is as opposite a message to the Bible as the world has ever known.

Live in a. World filled with self-aggrandizement

People are BRANDING AND MARKETING THEMSELVES on bases big and small.

The Rhyme as the reason

Hack, rhyming makes us inclined to believe the material contained in the rhyme.

Roses are red, violets are blue. If you buy our product, the one who will be happy is you.

You believe it.

Hacks into our system

Milgram effect – if we think someone is an expert, we will injure ourselves and others following their instructions.