The Love Of God

John 3:16 NKJV

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Prayer

Confession of Faith

I am not moved by what I see or by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe. I believe the WORD of God! The victory is mine! I have it now! I can see it through the eyes of my faith! In Jesus Name

Intro:

God: God loved the world so much. He loved everyone and everything.

1. Today , It's a new idea that God loves everyone in the world. Back in the day, The Jews thought that God loved religious people (the true Jew) and hated people who weren't religious (the Gentiles). Many people, especially religious people, have the same idea today. Many people are shocked by the fact that God really loves. Some people wonder and others ask how God could possibly love a • murderer

how God could possibly love a wife beater

how God could possibly love a child abuser

how God could possibly love a prostitute

how God could possibly love thief

how God could possibly love an alcoholic

how God could possibly love homeless person

how God could possibly love an oppressor

how God could possibly love a bitter person a bitter

how God could possibly love a you name it

News flash

God loves all people, not just those who are religious and good. He doesn't only love those who love Him back. He loves everyone, even the unlovable, the unloving, the unbelievers, the stubborn, the selfish, the greedy, and the mean.

John 10:16 NKJV

16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Romans 10:12–13 NLT

12 Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him. 13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

God's love is based on who He is. Because God is love

1 John 4:8 NKJV

8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

This love doesn't depend on what we do, but on who God is and the fact that he loves. God's love for us never changes, no matter how far away we are from him

Remember this

Romans 5:8 NKJV

8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

This love - This type of love expresses itself! Man, this type of loves does somethings This type of Love is It shows itself. This type of Love doesn't just sit around and do nothing.

It’s not sleeping,

It’s not idle

This type of Love is not dormant.

Love has to function and show itself if it really exists.

Love has to do something good.

Love is love, which means that it always shows love to others.

So, God's love shows that He is love by what it does.

Side note - if you are around someone and they say they love you without showing that love in a good positive way for you - then trust me there is no love in that space!

You see, God wants people to understand His love. He wants to share His love with everyone in the world.

1 John 3:16 NLT

16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

1 John 4:9 NLT

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.

John 3:16 NCV

16 “God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.

We are talking about the love of God

God's love is shown by the fact that He gave His only son.

God's love for this world and the people in this world was shown in the best way possible: He gave this world His only Son. As God, He is perfect, which means that His love is also perfect. So God not only loves, but He loves so much. He loves to the highest level, to the point of perfection. God shows what the highest level of love is and what the best way to show love is. Without a doubt, giving up your own life is the greatest act of love. Because of this, God gave up the life of His own Son to save you and me

The Love of God

The word "gave" means more than one thing. God gave His Son to the world, and also God gave His Son to die. In both scenarios, there is a sense of sacrifice and a high cost. God paid a lot to let the world and the cross take His Son.

He gave up His Son so that He would be separated from Him. This meant that Jesus would leave God’s presence and leave the glory and worship of heaven.

He gave up His Son so that He could be apart from Him. This made it possible for Jesus to come to earth... Into a world that was full of chaos. a world full of darkness, a world full of selfishness, a world full of anger, a world full of sin, a world full of shame

He gave up his Son so that Jesus could die for my sins and your sins and the sins of all people past present and future

The Love Of Jesus

What Jesus went through for us could never be put into words. Words are just not enough, not even close. If you tried to use all the words in the world to describe what Jesus went through, it would be like trying to use a syringe to drain an ocean.

1. There was the mental and emotional pain: the weight from the cross, the pressure of the cross, along with the agony, sadness, and stress that no man has ever felt before. He was the Son of God and the one who made the heavens and the earth, but he had to deal with the unbelief of all people everywhere.

He had to shoulder the The hatred of the world's leaders, both religious and secular, He had to handle the rejection of His own people, the Jews.

Deal with the fact that someone closed to him - One of His own, Judas, betrayed Him.

Watch all the men he loved and trusted leave Him.

Peter deny Him.

He had to handle unfairness and condemnation of His trial.

He had to accept The ridicule and pain of being beat, spit on, hit, cursed at, laughed at, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross, and killed.

He demonstrated his Love for you and me

Even though he was the Son of God, he had to go through death physically. Now Even if we only look at the physical part of Jesus's death, it is still different from the deaths of all other men.

As the Son of God, Jesus was made up of the very seed, quality, ingredient, and energy of life

1 John 1:1–2 NLT

1 We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. 2 This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us.

As the Son of God, Jesus had nothing that could cause death

John 1:4 NKJV

4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

But people do. Man is the source of all evil and death. Man's sinful nature doesn't know anything but death and expects nothing but death, but Christ's sinless nature doesn't know anything about sin or death. His death had to be as different from man's death because he had never done anything wrong.

There is one more thing to keep in mind. Man is humiliated when he dies. No matter how hard we trie to stay alive, we keep getting weaker and weaker until we are carried into the grave and turn into dust. But not Jesus. Even though He was human, He was without sin and perfect. His sinless nature had no idea what death was like. Imagine how humiliating it would be for the Son of God, who was both the perfect man and the perfect god, to have to die on earth. So it makes sense that He "began to be sad and very heavy." So it makes sense that He could say, "My soul is so sad that it could die." God made Jesus become sin for us in a strange way

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV

21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

3. As the Son of Man, Jesus had a spiritual death experience. There is a lot to know, but there is also a lot that will never be known.

a. First of all, what is it like to have no sin? Jesus was without sin because he was made in the image of man and was a full man. He had the same problems and temptations as other people, but he never did anything wrong. He did not do wrong. He turned into the Perfect and Ideal Man, which is everything God wants a man to be. He became the way all men should act.

He did that out of love to be the example of how we should live

"For we don't have a high priest who can't understand what we're going through, but one who has been in every way tempted as we are, yet without sin" the scripture tells us in Hebrews 4:15.

How would it feel to take on the sins of the whole world? What is it like to be perfect and without sin, and then all of the world's sins to be laid on you all at once? God took all the sins of the world and put them all on Jesus in a mysterious way. God made Jesus become sin for us in an unknown way read 2 Cor. 5:21.

As the Ideal Man, Jesus took on the role of the ultimate Sin Bearer. He took on all the sins and everything that sin causes, including: darkness, pollution, filth, weight, pressure, anxiety, turmoil, worry, guilt, war, torture, enmity, poison, corruption, and so on.

So That you and I could be free

That’s Love

God's love is shown by the fact that he saved people on his own. God tried to save man, not the other way around. God sent His Son to die so that we could be saved and forgiven. God is the one who wants to save.

God is not mad, hateful, or unwilling to forgive. God doesn't hate people, need to be convinced to love his creation, or need to be persuaded to forgive people.

God gave His only Son, which is the most wonderful thing that could happen. This is the best proof that God loves us. It makes His love bigger and shows how great it is. He was willing to give up what was most important to him in order to save everyone. God even planned to give His Son for all of time and space.

That’s THE LOVE OF God

God's love is more than just a fact to believe; it's a gift to enjoy.

Today enjoy the gift of God’s love - look around you, if you have a reasonable portion of health, that’s God’s Love! Family and Friends - that’s God’s love, Clothes on your back - that’s God’s Love, food to eat - that’s God’s love, a place to sleep - that’s God’s love

The air we breath - that’s God’s love

Right now ! take a moment - breathe deep in through your nose- push it out through your mouth - That’s God’s Love

God bless you and God keep you is my prayer