Love
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Love & advent
Love & advent
Why do you think love is an advent theme?
What does Christmas have to do with love?
Christ’s humiliation, in his life and death, is all about love! The reason he came to earth as a baby was love for us!
What is love?
What is love?
We use love pretty haphazardly. We could say “I love pizza” and “I love my mother.” It’s the same word, but obviously it means different things. How would you define love?
Love is usually talked about as a feeling, whether we have it for pizza or people. But biblical love—which is “true love”—is a verb not a noun. Love is goodness with an object. It is when you look at your friend or family member and all you want for them is good.
How did God show his love for us?
How did God show his love for us?
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Greatest commandment
Greatest commandment
What is it?
Love is central to Christianity:
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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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.
1 john 4:7-21
Jesus loved us by coming to the world, humbling himself even though he is God himself. He loved the people around him perfectly, even those who killed him. And he showed ultimate love for humanity by dying on the cross for our sin. Because God loved us in this way, we are to love God and love everyone else. We show God love first and foremost by loving the people around us. Humans are made in the image of God, which means all humans deserve love and respect. It also means that we love God by loving humans who bear his image. And we will be perfect images of God when we perfectly love God and His creation—which will not happen in this life.
