YC 02/015/23 - First Love

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

1st John 4:7-11

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

Focus: What happens when you have an encounter with this type of Love...

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Tell story of woman at the well...

John 4:13

“Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,”

Jesus is foreshadowing that he is the source, he is what your soul craves

*Read 14-27*

John 4:28-29

“So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”

When you have an encounter with the living God, your heart cannot contain the joy...

This is the type of love we’re talking about

Jesus offers the woman “Everlasting water”… Even though she is broken, messy, and an outcast