SF160 - LOVE HIM (1 John 4 19)
SF160
LOVE HIM
1JO 4:19
AIM
@INDENT PARA = To bring us into a love relationship with God.
INTRODUCTION
Looking For Love
Ø Love is hard to find
Ø We are looking in the wrong place for the wrong thing.
Love Found
Ø To find love you must go to the source.
Ø To show love you must know love
1A. GOD DEFINES LOVE
1JO 4:16
1B. By His Nature
Ø He cannot deny who he is.
Ø All God does is an expression of His love.
2B. By His Nurture
1C. The Bible calls God our Heavenly Father
MAT 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
2C. He will never give you second best.
MAT 6:32
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
MAT 7:11
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
2A. GOD DEMONSTRATES LOVE
1B. By What He Did
JOH 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
1JO 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
2B. By What He Does
HEB 12:5‑11
Discipline
1C. Proves love (v.6)
2C. Proves sonship (v.7‑8)
3C. Produces holiness, righteousness, and peace (v.9‑11)
3A. GOD DESIRES LOVE
MAT 22:37‑38
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.
1B. Everything Depends On This
2B. It Must Be Total
Emotional
Spiritual
Intellectual
APPLICATION
1. Your Christian life depends on the quality of your relationship to God.
2. God created you for a love relationship with Him.
3. Everything God says and does is an expression of love.
4. A love relationship with God is more important than any single factor in you life.