Love, for God

Believers’ response to God’s love

1 John 4:19 NKJV

We love Him because He first loved us.

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Love for God is commanded

Matthew 22:37–38 NKJV

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

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Loving God involves loving Jesus Christ

John 8:42 NKJV

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

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Expressing love for God

Delight in worship and in God’s house

Psalm 27:4 NKJV

One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I 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 inquire in His temple.

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Love for God’s word

Psalm 119:97 NKJV

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

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Self-sacrifice

Luke 14:33 NKJV

So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

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Giving

1 Chronicles 29:3 NKJV

Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, my own special treasure of gold and silver:

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Obeying God

1 John 5:3 NKJV

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 NKJV

And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

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The blessings of loving God

John 14:15–16 NKJV

“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—

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Examples of love for God and Jesus Christ

Psalm 18:1 NKJV

I will love You, O Lord, my strength.

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