God is LOVE! And You Are?

God is Love

1 John 4:8 NKJV

8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:16 NKJV

16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

John 5:17–23 NKJV

17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” 18 Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. 19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. 22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, 23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Human Race

John 3:17 NKJV

17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

John 10:17 NKJV

17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

John 15:9 NKJV

9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

John 17:23–24 NKJV

23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. 24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

Ephesians 1:4–6 NKJV

4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

The Problem SIN

1 John 4:9–10 NKJV

9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 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.

Romans 5:8 NKJV

8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

What is the point?

1 John 4:8 NKJV

8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:11 NKJV

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Love Fest

We confuse Love and Like!

1 John 4:8 NKJV

8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:12 NKJV

12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

1 John 4:16 NKJV

16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:20 NKJV

20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Answered Prayer = LOVE

1 John 4:21 NKJV

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

1 John 4:16 NKJV

16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Wow… LOOK AT HOW THEY LOVE One Another!

John 13:35 NKJV

35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Older Brother Luke 15

Luke 15:26–32 NKJV

26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’ 28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’ 31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”

NEVER DUMB DOWN THE WORD OF GOD!!

Love People with a standard

Love without Truth = Emotional sentimentalism

Truth without LOVE = Cold Orthodoxies

Speak the Truth with Love

The Absence of LOVE

People do not live in the Biblical Truth!

1 John 4:17–19 NKJV

17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.