God is Love

Intro: What is love? How do you define love? Is love a noun in your sentence? Or do you see love as a verb in your sentence? In your sentence in your life what is love? Is love passive or is love active and vibrant? Is love selfish and self serving? Or is love giving selflessly to better all? What is love?

God shows us what Love is and may we today learn ore of this love and how we can show it everyday.

Lead into Text: Let us look at the Word of God and learn of how great he loves us in this great paragraph of love in .

Continue in Love (vv.7-10)

Love never fails because Love comes from God!

1 john 4:

1 John 4:7 NLT

7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

God teaches us Love in his existence because he embodies love.

To know God is to know Love.

God is eternal and always has been existence.

Therefore love has always been in existence.

Love continues in God and should continue in us!

The church should promote love like in .

1 Corinthians 13:8 NLT

8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!

Know God and know the continuation of Love

1 John 4:8 NLT

8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

When we do not show love we are not representing God!

We must show we know God by loving one another .

Knowing God is knowing love.

Love comes from God because love is God!

God shows us how much he loves us...

1 john 4:9-

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.

Love came down as in speaks of this great love and is mention again here in .

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The Son of God came to give us life by giving his life for us.

Love involves sacrifice

1 John 4:10 NLT

10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

1 John 4:10 NASB95

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.

NASB uses “PROPITIATION’ - to take sins away

Love is not based of reciprocity.

Love is giving.

Love gives even if someone will not give back.

Love is sacrificial

Love gives to benefit others.

God’s love takes away our sins.

How does that benefit you?

How does that benefit God?

God loved us first means...

God’s love saved us.

God’s love never fails.

Love is a verb and needs action.

Love is a verb and needs action.

How do you show love?

What does love look like to you?

How has God’s love changed you?

You must love others to show You Love God!

1 john 4:

1 John 4:11–12 NLT

11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.

God made us in his image with great love (see ).

Loving one another is loving God.

God Calls us to Love him first (see ).

Jesus call this the first great command (see ).

Deuteronomy 6:4–5 NLT

4 “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

Jesus gives us the second great command in .

Mark 12:31 NLT

31 The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

Love God first will help you to keep all the laws.

God in you means love is in you.

Let love be shown in how you give love to others.

show real Love.

Love will lead you to serve God for his glory and you will benefit.

What is real love?

Real Love

John 4:10

John 4:11 NLT

11 “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water?

1 John 4:11 NLT

11 Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

God loved us before we knew him.

God loves us even when we do not love him back.

1 John 4:12 NLT

12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.

Make God’s love perfect

God’s love is fully shown by us showing love to all we meet.

We are the cause of the love being shown.