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.