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1. God’s love is intrinsic to His nature
1 John 4:7-87 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
• God doesn't just love – He is love
1 John 4:1616 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
• It motivates His every action, directs His activities, and reflects His desires
John 4:1010 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
2. God’s Love Is Universal
Psalm 145:9The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.
Luke 7:3434 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’
Luke 15:22 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
John 3:1616 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.
3. God’s Love Is Unconditional
John 3:1616 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.
Romans 5:88 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
"Intense love does not measure, it just gives." – Mother Teresa
4. God’s Love Is Sacrificial
1 John 3:1616 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 and sisters.
5. God’s Love Is Contagious
Romans 5:55 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
1 John 4:1616 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
6. God’s Love Is Motivating
Romans 8:55 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
The Focus of God's Love is Redemption
Revelation 1:55 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,
Titus 3:4-54 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
The Goal of God’s Love is Relationship
Romans 12:1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.