He Loves Me, He Loves Me Lots
iGod: His Character Playlist, part 2 of 10
Of all of God’s attributes, His most supreme is that of love. The bible teaches that God is love, not that God is loving, or simply the perfect expresser love. And because God is love we can see all the ways in which he expresses love because it comes straight from who He is. We will examine (as much as possible) the depths of God’s love and how we can learn to let God’s love impact the way we love and live our everyday lives.
Download the notes.“Therefore, 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 4:16)
I) LOVE IS A MANY (SPLENDORED) SPLINTERED THING
1) Eros is a ___SEXUAL___ expression of love.
2) Phileo is a ___BROTHERLY___ expression of love.
3) Agape is a ___GODLY___ expression of love.
II) HOW GOD DEFINES LOVE
1) One way God defines love is in the act of ___GIVING___.
“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.” (John 3:16)
2) God, ___I AM___ is love defined.
“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8)
III) GOD’S LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL
1) God gave His ___PRICELESS GIFT ___of love when we deserved it ___LEAST ___.
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)
2) ___GRACE ___ from God’s unconditional love allows Himself to love sinful people.
_”But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—
and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God”_ (Ephesians 2:4-8)
IV) TRUE LOVE ONLY COMES THROUGH RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD (How can anyone really love me?)
1) As far as people go, love has ___LIMITS___. Authentic love knows no ___BOUNDARIES___.
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13)
2) As far as people go, genuine love has to be EXPERIENCED from God, the source, before it can be given out to another. This love produces ___TRUE___ relationship.
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” (1 John 4:7-12)