TOPIC: THE LOVE OF GOD
Love for God is a byproduct of love of God.
God is love personified – an embodiment of love.
He is love itself, and love flows from Him.
John 3:16(KJV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
He gives love freely and draws people to Himself through love.
God’s love and our love for God work in harmony, complementing one another.
The love of God is beyond anything we can imagine.
There is an eternal love shared among the trinity. God the Father loves the Holy Spirit, and He loves Jesus, His only begotten son. This mysterious bond makes it impossible for the trinity to be divided or broken.
John 10:30(KJV)30 I and my Father are one.
John 14:10-11(KJV)10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
John 16:13-15(KJV)13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John 17:24b(NIV)”… the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
Song :Bind us together.
Have you ever imagined the trinity quarreling or misunderstanding one another? Of course not – the trinity is love.
God does not fight within Himself. Unlike humans, who often struggle with inner conflict, even to the point of despair and committing suicide?
God is perfect love, Love cannot hate itself.
If we can truly understand the revelation of God’s love, many of our problems would be solved.
1 John 4:7-12(NLT)7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
V19 We love each other because he loved us first.
1 John 3:1-2(NLT) See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.
Love for others is a reflection of God’s love within us.
V18-19 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. 19 Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God.
The love of God is a giving love – a sacrificial love.
Rom 5:6-9(NLT)6 When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. 7 Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. 8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
His love can never be separated from us. To try to separate God’s love from those He loves would be to separate God Himself, which is impossible..
His grip on us is unbreakable.
You are secure in your relationship with God.
Rom 8:35-39(KJV)35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We are eternally woven into the fabric of His hands.
God’s love is a covenant love that cannot be broken.
Isa 54:10(NLT)10 For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Sing: In the hollow of His hands ….
Since God is for us, neither satan nor the opposition of unbelievers can succeed.
Rom 8:31(KJV)31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
God will never fail us because His love cannot fail.
Take a revelatory gaze at the love of God .
Ps 36:5-7(NLT)5 Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. 6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O Lord. 7 How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings.
He chose to adopt you because He loves you.
Eph 1:3-6(MSG)3 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. 4 Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. 5 Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) 6 He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.
When you fully experience His love, fear no longer has a hold on you.
1 John 4:18-19(TLB)18 We need have no fear of someone who loves us perfectly; his perfect love for us eliminates all dread of what he might do to us. If we are afraid, it is for fear of what he might do to us and shows that we are not fully convinced that he really loves us. 19 So you see, our love for him comes as a result of his loving us first.
You can recognize and identify those who have received God’s love by the fruit they bear in their lives.
The love of God : “is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!”( 1 Cor 13:4-9(NLT)
Make God’s love a focal point in your prayers, for it is too vast to fully comprehend.
Eph 3:17-18(TLB)17 And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; 18-19 and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself.
The summary:
Uses of God love in the now.
God ‘s love is infinite and unfailing.
God’s love for you is personal.
God loves you as you are.
God’s love helps you grow and improve.
When life becomes difficult, cling to His love because He cares for you.
God’s love inspires you to love others.
God’s love serves as a model for how we should love.
