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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes
February 6, 2022
The Greatest Love.
Why is Jesus’ Love the Greatest Love?
Good morning, GP.
Welcome to February.
Time is moving.
The month of February is traditionally considered Love Month.
So, for GP it presents an
opportunity for us to celebrate LOVE in many ways including the preached Word and creative
Deeds and Activities.
By the way, please hurry and text your ideas to Sister Vicky (404) 2768985 (please include your name.)
We’ll select the most doable one or several.
Activities will
serve as an opportunity to connect our church family for a time of fellowship.
Over the next four weeks, I want to minister around a theme of love.
The first installment will
focus on LOVE as the greatest gift.
In the following three weeks, I will use a few popular love
song titles and correlate them with the truth of Scripture.
This morning, I want to begin our Love Month talking from a message entitled . . .
The Greatest
Love.
The primary focus will be on the question: Why is Jesus’ Love the Greatest Love.
Our
text will come from various select text.
I want this lesson to serve as a refresher and a reminder to Believers of the great love our
heavenly Father has bestowed upon us; and for those who have not experienced God’s love – I
want to stir your hearts to action in coming to experience the most important love of all of life.
As we begin to answer this statement, I must confess, that I as began typing in the final notes for
this message, out of the blue, one of my favorite songs from 1977 popped in my head:
“The Greatest Love of All” – a song recorded by George Benson, then later on Whitney
Houston.
I remembered that this song was originally written and recorded as the main theme of
the 1977 film The Greatest, a biopic of the boxer Muhammad Ali.
Of course, Ali is my all-time
favorite boxer but his greatness is not to be compared to the Greatest Love of Christ.
[The Lover
of our souls].
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In our learning about Why is Jesus’ Love the Greatest Love, I first want to remind you of three
things we are told to do as followers of Christ as we grow more and more deeply in love with
Him:
First, we are told to BEHOLD!
That is to “Behold what manner of love the Father has
bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1.
Here, we are call upon
by the Apostle John to stop and take careful note of the wonderfully marvelous love that God the
Father made available to us to bring us into His family as children.
Second, we are invited to scrutinize and cross-examine the depth and strength of the
greatness of God’s Love toward us.
According to Romans 8: 31-34 , we are given a series of
questions to answer in route to discovering the gift of the greatest love freely given to us by God.
Listen to what it says:
31 What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He
who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?
It is God
who justifies.
34 Who is he who condemns?
It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God,
who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it
is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Because we are more than conquerors More Than, God’s greatest love places far beyond being
defeated in life by tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril,
or sword [which means death]?
Thirdly, we are challenged by God to experience the love of Christ outside of our comfort
zone.
Matthew 5:46 poses the challenge: it reads:
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?
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