God is Love: God’s love is so great that He gave His only
Son to bring us into fellowship with Him. God’s love not only encompasses the
world, but embraces each of us personally and intimately.
How
do we know God loves us?
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent
his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as
an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since
God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:9-11)
We
look at His Son Jesus
“But God
demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8
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. 17 For God did not send his Son into the
world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only
Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men
loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for
fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the
truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has
done has been done through God.” (John 3:16-21)
But
because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in
mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in
transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians
2:4-5)
“This is how God
showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we
loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for
our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another. 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 him.” (1 John 4:9-11, 16)
A world-renowned theologian was asked by a student what he
considered to be the most significant theological truth he ever learned. His
answer was, “Jesus loves me. This I know; for the Bible tells me so.”
The Love of God as sung by Mercy Me
Than tongue or pen can ever tell
It goes beyond the highest star
And reaches to the lowest hell
The guilty pair, bowed down with care
God gave His Son to win
His erring child He reconciled
And pardoned from his sin
Could we with ink the ocean fill
And were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky
Hallelujah
O love of God, how rich and pure
How measureless and strong
It shall forevermore endure
The saints' and angels' song
George Beverly Shea singing The Love of God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgIb5g21Eg
God loves you! Accept His love.
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