Loved Beyond Measure
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Romans 8:37–39 “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 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.”
Mom story “ look at me I love you”
God wants to remind you about his love for you.
What is Love ?
What is Love ?
Webster : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties
attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers
affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests
Benevolence : the quality of being well meaning; kindness.
Types of Love in the Bible
Types of Love in the Bible
I love my:
Kids, Wife, Disneyland, the Hat pastrami burgers, love the church, Christmas time.
Love has many definitions in our world.
Hebrew = yada and Greek =eros are the words used to indicate sexual love.
Hebrew = Ahabah and Greek Phileo words used for friendship, Brotherly love
Hewbrew = Ahabah and Greek = Storge (store-gay) Used for family or tribal love
God’s love in the bible :
Hebrew = Chesed "loving-kindness," "steadfast love," or "mercy".
Greek = Agape the highest form of love: selfless, sacrificial, unconditional, and voluntary
God’s love is more then a feeling, its a choice!
Marriage / Parents = has its ups and down but we stay together because we love each other through thick and thin good and bad, sickness and health. We choose to love.
Maybe you didn't have the best childhood, or didn't have good examples of love in your life. God loves you:
The Love Chapter - Paul to the church of Corinth
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
He choose to love us first
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
He love you! you are His child, he created your.
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Example : like a parent. but x100!
God’s love is unconditional
God’s love is unconditional
22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Steadfast : A steadfast person is one who is reliable, faithful, and true to the end.
15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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.
Story : “God is love” gay pastor
God’s love is unconditional, but it doesn’t give us the right to continue to sin.
God’s love is unconditional, but it doesn’t give us the right to continue to sin.
The devil will distort God’s word.
The devil doesn’t mind you coming to church. he doesn't like you obeying God an believing His word.
God and Sin does not mix
4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You.
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face.
6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
Repentance : Changing of the mind
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
God’s love saves and Transforms
God’s love saves and Transforms
God Wants the best life for you in HIM!
Matthew 11:28–29 “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
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.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
God loves you Sooooo much!
Story:
Spurgeon Commentary Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. some of whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers.
June 19, 1834, Kelvedon, United Kingdom
People are proud if a king has merely looked at them. I have heard of a man who used to boast all his life that King George IV once spoke to him. He only said, “Get out of the road,” but it was a king who said it, so the man felt greatly gratified. But we can rejoice that God, before whom kings are as grasshoppers, actually thinks of us and thinks of us often.
God Sees You, He knows you! your likes dislikes, your weird ticks and goofy self!
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
Every grain of sand is a thought me of
He loves your:
smile, laugh, hair eyes, the way you sound, you walk. the way your eat, the way you see the world, the way you love, the way you pray, the way you read.
Let God’s love wash over you
Let Him hold you in His arms.
If you feel like you have been:
Forgotten, Mistreated by life, lonely, depressed, mad at the world, pushed away from family and friends,
I want to remind you that God see you, He hears you, and He is with you right now, and He loves you more then anything.
