Love, for God

Believers’ response to God’s love

1 John 4:19 NASB95

We love, because He first loved us.

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Love for God is commanded

Matthew 22:37–38 NASB95

And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ “This is the great and foremost commandment.

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Loving God involves loving Jesus Christ

John 8:42 NASB95

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.

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Expressing love for God

Delight in worship and in God’s house

Psalm 27:4 NASB95

One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord And to meditate in His temple.

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Love for God’s word

Psalm 119:97 NASB95

O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

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Self-sacrifice

Luke 14:33 NASB95

“So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

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Giving

1 Chronicles 29:3 NASB95

“Moreover, in my delight in the house of my God, the treasure I have of gold and silver, I give to the house of my God, over and above all that I have already provided for the holy temple,

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Obeying God

1 John 5:3 NASB95

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

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Loving others

1 John 4:21 NASB95

And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

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The blessings of loving God

John 14:15–16 NASB95

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

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Examples of love for God and Jesus Christ

Psalm 18:1 NASB95

“I love You, O Lord, my strength.”

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