God is Love

1 John 4:7-21

“The most important thing about you is what comes into your mind when you think of God” Steve Lawson

Proverbs 23:7 NASB95

For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, “Eat and drink!” But his heart is not with you.

For as he thinks within himself, so he is. NASB

What we think of God matters. What we believe about Him shapes the way we live out every area of our life. How we worship, how we evangelize.

1 John 4:7-21

1 John 4:7–21 ESV

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. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

How do you think you can stand before the Judgment of God

Moses hid in the cleft of the rocks

John who knew Jesus more fell as though dead

Even the earth/sky which obey God try and escape

Revelation 20:11 ESV

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

Revelation 20:11–12 ESV

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

How do

How?

For as he thinks within himself, so he is. NASB

Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks

Change the juices of your heart

1. Time with God- Love God

Make it a date

Silence phone

Talk to Him

Read

“Some people like to read so many chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of scripture, and to let it be sucked up into your very sou, till it saturates your heart! Set your heart upon God’s Word! Let your whole nature be plunged into it as a cloth into a dye!” Charles Spurgeon

Community

2. Proximity- Living in His Community

sundays, life groups, create one, eat together, talk outside your group, intentional

3. Pour into others- Serve Others

Jesus IS a servant

My testimony how God used all of these in my life