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Opening Illustration
A good way to gauge how much you love God is to consider how much you are willing to give for the cause of Christ.
A man named Andy proved his love in a very real way.
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Years ago, Andy, a graduate school student from the mid-west, was moved by the need of another brother.
The new semester had come and one of his friends was $150.00 short of what he needed to stay in school.
Andy didn’t have to think twice about what to do.
He gave his friend the money.
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Andy made a tremendous sacrifice.
Like most students, he did not have a large reserve of cash to share.
In fact, a year later, Andy had to drop out of school for a year to earn more money to finish his own education.
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Did he ever regret giving that money to his friend?
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Not in any way.
He later said,
“To have done anything else would have been sin.
My brother had a need and I had the privilege of helping meet that need.
Don’t worry about me.
God will take care of me too.”
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And God did.
Andy finished his degree a year later—just in time...
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In God’s time...
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In God’s way...
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With God’s provision.
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The believer never loses when his motive for action is love.
Love is always worth the risk.
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So, please turn your Bibles to 1 John.
We will be conducting our study in Chapter 4 and focusing on verses 11 through 12.
Our message this morning is called, “God So Loved Us.”
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As you are finding your place in God’s Word, I want to share that today we will be focusing on love.
We will be exploring how God loves us...
And we will see how it is out of that love that we are able to love others...
Just like Andy loved his fellow school mate...
When he sacrificially gave what he himself needed.
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Opening Prayer
Before we consider our text, please join me in prayer...
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Let’s turn to our text for today:
Reading of the Text
So, let’s look at our first point...
1) God Loves His Children
Verse 11a: Beloved, if God so loved us,
So, the first item that John mentions in this passage is the love of God.
That love is the foundation of John’s point that he is making in these two verses...
And that love is the foundation for all true love.
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Simple put...
True love has no other origin than in our mighty and awesome God...
And He has chosen to shower us, His followers, with His immeasurable love.
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To comprehend God’s love is impossible for our human minds...
The finite cannot properly and fully understand the infinite.
But we are able to get at lest a partial understanding.
Though this illustration falls short...
It helps us to get an idea of God’s love.
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Church, I want you to imagine that God’s love is all the water that is contained on the earth.
Keep in mind too that about 71% of the Earth's surface is water-covered.
That is estimated to be about 326 million trillion gallons!
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Do you think anyone can drain all that water?
An average human’s body contains about 11 gallons of water.
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So, When God loves His children...
It is like taking that 326 million trillion gallons of water and pouring it into an 11 gallon shell.
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The reality is that we are completely flooded by God’s love.
Our needs are filled a myriad of times over and we have nothing else to do but sharer that abundance of love with others.
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You see Church, God is completely rich in His mercy.
And in the mercy department...
We were malnutritioned..
In fact we were dead...
Dead inn our sin and wickedness.
But as Ephesians 2:4–5 He made what was once dead into something that was alive.
God’s love was so powerful...
He made zombies turn into living men and women.
He made dead dry bones have life again.
And He did that by crucifying our old self.
In fact...
We are no longer the ones who live.
As Paul says it is “Christ who lives in me.”
We no longer live by sight...
We now live by faith!
Or as Galatians 2:20 puts it:
God’s love is poured out into our hearts...
Dissolving the our wicked and cold stone heart...
And creating a heart of flesh...
And the means in which God does this is through the Holy Spirit that now lives in every born-again man and woman.
Romans 5:5 is clear on those truths when it says:
That amazing part about this all...
Is that although we are slaves to Christ...
We are not treated as a typical slave...
We are adopted as God’s children...
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His former enemies that blasphemed Him and sin against Him daily...
We who are responsible for the need of the crucifixion...
We who disobey Him and commit treason against Him every time we sin...
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He now calls us sons and daughters...
He allows us to be part of the royal family of God...
Co-Heirs with Christ...
This is so mind blowing!
As John said earlier in this letter in 1 John 3:1:
As His children we are obligated to love one another...
And this takes us to our second point.
2) We Must Love One Another
Verse 11b: We also ought to love one another.
The note from the Faithlife Study Bible is helpful here:
“John links together the two main issues that the false teachers have misconstrued:
Love of God and love of neighbor.
For John, the two expressions of love are inextricably tied together.”
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