God's Love Amplified

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:14–15 NKJV

14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

1 John 4:17–19 NKJV

17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

God’s love for Us

1 John 4:9 NKJV

9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

Love is

++Not an emotion

++Not a feeling

++A response

Jesus Paid It all

Hebrews 9:12 NKJV

12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

We were not redeemed

++By the blood of animals

++By the offering of grain

These were involuntary sacrifices.

In these sacrifices

++The animals had no choice

++The sinful made the decision for the slain

Jesus was a Voluntary Sacrifice

1 Peter 3:18 NKJV

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

He was

++Was not drafted

++The sacrifice by Choice

++The Demonstration of a Love that is Louder

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.

The Signal

Our Love for God

1 John 4:12–13 NKJV

12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

The Believers Response

++To what comes from God

++To a New Life in God

++To knowing God

His love is reveal

++When we abide in Him

++When his love is perfected in us

Romans 8:38–39 NKJV

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 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Sound

1 John 4:17–19 NKJV

God’s Love Amplified

John 20:19–21 NKJV

19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

Fear is the Opposite of Love.

John 20:19 (NIV)

19 On the evening of that first day of the week

The evening Easter Sunday Night

They are locked away

Fear causes people to

++draw away from others

++connect with people that are like them

Fear brings division

John 20:19 (NKJV)

19 Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

Peace is the Christian response

He Calls the Church to

++Calm down

++Walk in God’s grace

++Stand in the peace of Jesus

Ephesians 2:14 NKJV

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,

Because Jesus Came to us…We Go

John 20:21 NKJV

21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

We must

++Know the love of God

++Embrace the love of God

++Declare the Love of God

++Demonstrate God’s Love

1 John 4:11 NKJV

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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